Classical Studies

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Garden of Egypt

Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum

By Brendan Haug
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Examining how relationships with water flow through Egyptian history

The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies

Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes

By Christopher Faraone & Sofia Torallas Tovar
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Essays on the magical handbooks of Greco-Roman Egypt

Confiscation or Coexistence

Egyptian Temples in the Age of Augustus

By Andrew Connor
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

A new interpretation of the administrative restructuring of lands held by temples in Roman Egypt

Ancient Latin Poetry Books

Materiality and Context

By Gabriel Nocchi Macedo
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Presents the first comprehensive study of the material aspects of the oldest surviving manuscripts of Latin secular poetry

Recording Village Life

A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt

By Jennifer Cromwell
Subjects: Classical Studies, Islamic Studies, Archaeology, Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

An engrossing study of literacy and the scribal economy at the village level
 

Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt

By Ryan McConnell
Subjects: Classical Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Economics, Archaeology, Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

A nuanced examination that illuminates the Apion estate’s economic structure and addresses how the family was able to generate such wealth
 

Women of Jeme

Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt

By Terry Wilfong
Subjects: Archaeology, Classical Studies, History, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Brings to life the women of Jeme, a thriving Christian community in ancient Egypt

Settling a Dispute

Toward a Legal Anthropology of Late Antique Egypt

By Traianos Gagos & Peter Van Minnen
Subjects: Classical Studies, Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Family squabbles and fights over real estate were no less complex in sixth-century Egypt than they are in the modern world. In this volume Peter van Minnen and Traianos Gagos investigate just such a struggle

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