The private letters of ancient women in Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest

This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Ro

This collection of nine essays is focused on military and administrative institutions in the ancient world, and supplemented by a presentation of thirty texts i

Discusses life in ancient Egypt, with an overview and timeline of the years between 3050 and 30 B.C., and looks at agriculture, belief systems, art, health, the