Egypt After the Pharaohs 332 BC-AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab Conquest, Revised edition by Alan K. Bowman (PDF)

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Egypt After the Pharoahs treats the period which witnessed the arrival of the Greeks and Hellenistic culture in Egypt, the reign of the Ptolemies from Ptolemy I to Cleopatra, the conquest by Rome, the scientific and cultural achievements of Alexandria, and the rise of Christianity. The rich social, cultural, and intellectual ferment of this period comes alive in Alan Bowman’s narrative.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Alan K. Bowman is Tutor of Roman History at Christ Church, Oxford.

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⭐Hellenistic and Roman Egypt was a fascinating blend of cultures (Egyptian, Greek, Jewish, Christian), and thanks to large-scale survivals of papyrus, we know more about it than most regions of the ancient world. Bowman describes it in vivid detail, with liberal use of quotations from documents. He’s careful to say what we don’t know or can’t be sure of, and how our evidence is slanted toward the literate and largely Hellenized elite strata of society, without going into tedious academic detail about those problems. If you’re a non-academic reader wanting to know more about Greco-Roman Egypt, Bowman is an excellent place to start. (Ideally you should read the

⭐rather than this one, as it’s presumably more up-to-date, but I don’t have that edition and can’t review it.)The first chapter is a general description of Egypt (called, inevitably, “The Gift of the Nile”), and the second describes the changes in rulers from Alexander’s conquest to that by the Arabs. Because the rest of the book is organized by subject rather than chronologically, this chapter is important for giving the historical framework for the changes during that vast length of time. The following chapters discuss how the government interacted with the populace, the economy, the ethnic and cultural relationships between Greeks and Egyptians, religion, and the all-important city of Alexandria. Ethnicity and religion in Greco-Roman Egypt were so complex that it’s hard for an introductory book like this to discuss them adequately, but Bowman does a pretty good job.My only major reservation is that there’s been a huge amount of research on Ptolemaic and especially Roman Egypt in the 30 years since this book came out. Some of the details in it may be out of date, though I haven’t spotted any that are, and its bibliography certainly is out of date. The second edition of this book or

⭐are no doubt more current. For anyone looking for more in-depth information, some of the more general recent books on this topic are

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⭐, and the behemoth

⭐, whose bibliographies will give you more further reading than you’ll ever need.

⭐Highly readable, richly informative, lavishly illustrated, authoritative — who could ask for more in a book about a most fascinating era in always-fascinating Egypt? Get it! Read it!

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