A Companion to Ancient Egypt. Vol. I + Vol. II


A Companion to Ancient Egypt. Vol. I. Edited by Alan B. Lloyd. Blackwell, 2010.

N.B. Ambele volume sunt intr-un singur document!

Vol. I:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chronology
  • Maps
  • The Land of Egypt
  • The Physical Context of Ancient Egypt
  • Historical Narratives
  • Prehistory
  • The Early Dynastic Period
  • The Old Kingdom
  • The First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom
  • The Second Intermediate Period and the New Kingdom
  • Libyans and Nubians
  • Saites and Persians (664–332)
  • The Ptolemaic Period
  • The Roman Period
  • State and Economic Structures
  • The Pharaoh and Pharaonic Office
  • Administration and Law: Pharaonic
  • Administration and Law: Graeco-Roman
  • Priests and Temples: Pharaonic
  • Egyptian Temples and Priests: Graeco-Roman
  • The Economy: Pharaonic
  • The Economy: Graeco-Roman
  • Settlements – Distribution, Structure, Architecture: Pharaonic
  • Settlements – Distribution, Structure, Architecture: Graeco-Roman
  • Transport in Ancient Egypt
  • Science and Technology: Pharaonic
  • Science and Technology: Alexandrian
  • Military Institutions and Warfare: Pharaonic
  • Military Institutions and Warfare: Graeco-Roman
  • The Social Order
  • Social Structure and Daily Life: Pharaonic
  • Social Structure and Daily Life: Graeco-Roman
  • Religion in Society: Pharaonic
  • Religion in Society: Graeco-Roman
  • Bibliography
Vol. II:
  • Language and Literature
  • Language, Scripts, and Literacy
  • Middle Kingdom Literature
  • New Kingdom Literature
  • Late Period Literature
  • Coptic and Coptic Literature
  • Greek Literature in Egypt
  • The Visual Arts
  • Temple Architecture and Decorative Systems
  • Mortuary Architecture and Decorative Systems
  • Early Dynastic Art and Iconography
  • Old Kingdom Sculpture
  • Sculpture of the Middle Kingdom
  • New Kingdom Sculpture
  • Late Period Sculpture
  • Ptolemaic and Romano-Egyptian Sculpture
  • Pharaonic Painting through the New Kingdom
  • Mosaics and Painting in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  • Egyptian Art of Late Antiquity
  • The Reception of Egyptian Culture
  • The Reception of Pharaonic Egypt in Classical Antiquity
  • The Reception of Egypt in Europe
  • The Reception of Pharaonic Egypt in Islamic Egypt
  • Ancient Egypt in the Museum: Concepts and Constructions
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Archimedes and the roman imagination


Jaeger Mary - Archimedes and the roman imagination. The University of Michigan Pres, 2008.

  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The “Eureka” Story
  • Cicero at Archimedes’ Tomb
  • Why Two Spheres? Coda to Part One. The Afterlife of the Spheres from the De republica
  • A Sketch of Events at Syracuse
  • Who Killed Archimedes?
  • The Defense of Syracuse
  • Coda to Part Two. Claudian on Archimedes
  • Petrarch’s Archimedes
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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