First comparative analysis of the role of local elites and populations in the formation of the two main Hellenistic empires.

This book examines how the army developed as an engine of socio-economic and cultural integration in Egypt under Greco-Macedonian rule.

The notion of the “Silk Road” that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of l

This book investigates some aspects of the cultural consequences of the settlement of Greeks in Egypt during the Hellenistic period, through a discussion of pap

This is the first book-length exploration of the ways art from the edges of the Roman Empire represented the future, examining visual representations of time an