Alan Shawn Bowman

The High Empire, AD 70-192

The Cambridge Ancient History: The Crisis of Empire, A.D. 193-337

Index to the 1850 Census of the State of California

Egypt After the Pharaohs: 332 Bc-Ad 642 from Alexander to the Arab Conquest

Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times: From Pharaonic to Modern Times

Representations of Empire: Rome and the Mediterranean World

Images And Artefacts Of The Ancient World

Egypt After the Pharaohs 332 Bc-ad 642: From Alexander to the Arab Conquest

Alan Bowman

Alan Keir Bowman FBA is the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. Born in 1944 Bowman was educated at Manchester Grammar School, The Queen's...

Literacy in the Roman World (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series #3)

THE CONTENTS: 1) The tyranny of the evidence: a discussion of the possible uses of literacy in Etruria and Latium in the archaic age.2) Ancient literacy and the function of the written word in Roman religion.3) Statistics or states of mind?4) Literacy and the parietal inscriptions of Pompeii.5) L'ec...

Literacy and Power in the Ancient World

This book consists of a series of studies, each by a specialist in a different period or area of the ancient history of the Mediterranean world and northern Europe, examining the relationship between power and the use of writing in ancient society. The studies range in date from c. 600 B.C. to A.D. ...

Egypt After the Pharaohs

Settlement, Urbanization, and Population (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy)

This volume presents a collection of studies focussing on population and settlement patterns in the Roman empire in the perspective of the economic development of the Mediterranean world between 100 BC and AD 350. The analyses offered here highlight the issues of regional and temporal variation in I...

The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 12: The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337

This volume covers the history of the Roman Empire from the accession of Septimius Severus in AD 193 to the death of Constantine in AD 337. This period was one of the most critical in the history of the Mediterranean world. It begins with the establishment of the Severan dynasty as a result of civil...

Egypt After the Pharaohs 332 BC-AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab Conquest

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, ...

Quantifying the Roman Economy: Methods and Problems (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy)

This collection of essays is the first volume in a new series, Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Edited by the series editors, it focuses on the economic performance of the Roman empire, analysing the extent to which Roman political domination of the Mediterranean and north-west Europe created th...

Quantifying the Roman Economy: Methods and Problems (Studies on the Roman Economy)

This collection of essays is the first volume in a new series, Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Edited by the series editors, it focuses on the economic performance of the Roman empire, analysing the extent to which Roman political domination of the Mediterranean and north-west Europe created th...