FRASER, P.M.,
Ptolemaic Alexandria. I. Text. II. Notes. III. Indexes.
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972. 3 vols. XVI,812;XIV,1116;158p. Cloth wrps. Wrps vol.3 bit worn and repaired with adhesive tape. (Rare).
As epigrapher, historian, and resident of Alexandria Mr. Peter Fraser has a special competence for his chosen task: al large-scale study of Alexandria. 'Alexandria formed a link of first importance in the chain of transmission between classical Greece and Rome, and thus to our own day; it was open to influences from Egypt and the East; it had its own brilliant civilization (...) All of these themes required a fresh critical, treatment which should take account of the enormous bulk of discovery since Susemihl, Bouché-Leclerq, and Thiersch. Moreover, the written sources are fragmentary and disparate, scattered through a wide literature, often focused on details. They require critical consideration at every turn. The result of combinatory method - and above all a survey of the whole material by a single mind - is more than usually fruitful. It must be said at once that Mr. Fraser's book succeeds brilliantly.' (E.G. TURNER in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1974, p.290). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.
€ 875.00
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