Thematic list of entries. List of contributors.
Preface.
List of abbreviations.
Maps.
Entries in alphabetical order.
Index.
Roger S. Bagnall is Professor of Ancient History andDirector of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NewYork University. Before joining the NYU faculty in 2007, he was JayProfessor of Greek and Latin and Professor of History at ColumbiaUniversity, where he had taught for 33 years. During that time heserved as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences andChair of the Department of Classics. He specializes in the socialand economic history of Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique Egypt.Among his best-known works are Egypt in Late Antiquity(1993), The Demography of Roman Egypt (1994; with BruceFrier), and Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (1995). Kai Brodersen is chair of Ancient History at theUniversity of Mannheim and president-elect of the University ofErfurt in Germany. He has worked on Greek and Roman historiographyand geography, inscriptions, oracles and wonder-texts, on economichistory, and on the reception of the classical world. Craige B. Champion received his graduate training inClassics and Ancient History at Princeton University. He isAssociate Professor of Ancient History and Classics in the MaxwellSchool of Citizenship and Public Affairs and former Chair of theHistory Department at Syracuse University. He has published widelyon ancient Greek and Roman history and historiography. He is theauthor of Cultural Politics in Polybius s Histories(2004) and editor of Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources(Blackwell, 2004). Andrew Erskine studied for his undergraduate degree anddoctorate at New College Oxford. He has subsequently worked in theuniversities of Birmingham, Swansea, and University College Dublin.In 1997-98 he held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at theUniversity of Munich. He held the chair of Classics at the NationalUniversity of Ireland Galway until his arrival at the University ofEdinburgh in January 2005. He is currently head of Classics. Sabine R. Huebner is Privatdozentin of Ancient History atFreie Universitat Berlin. She has published on the social andreligious history of the Roman and later Roman East, onbrother-sister marriage in Roman Egypt, old age in ClassicalGreece, Greek epigraphy, and papyrology. Her work include amonograph, Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spatantikenKleinasiens (2005), a co-edited volume, Growing upFatherless in Antiquity (2008), and a forthcoming study onIntergenerational Equity and Family Strategies in theHellenistic and Roman East (2009).
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