“Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers; general readers.” (Choice, 1 October 2013)
“The Encyclopedia of Ancient History is truly a monumental achievement that supplants any and all predecessors. Make no mistake about it; this is an academic work written with an academic audience in mind, placing it outside the collections of most public libraries and high-school media centers. But for any college-level collection supporting ancient-history programs, this excellent set is a must-have.” (Booklist, 22 March 2013)
"The Encyclopedia of Ancient History is a welcome addition to our reference collection for Classics in Oxford. The online version is especially useful due to its searching and browsing capabilities, and I think the entire resource will benefit students of Ancient History and related subjects at all levels. As a librarian, I look forward to introducing our readers to The Encyclopedia of Ancient History and will include it in my list of essential reference works for new students in the future." - Charlotte Goodall, Oxford University Bodleian Library "Written by an international team of well-respected scholars, The Encyclopedia of Ancient History takes the inclusion of all Mediterranean cultures seriously and devotes full attention to often disregarded areas and topic of ancient history. It is heartening to see that the regions of Egypt and the Ancient Near East are given complete coverage as well as periods like the Late Bronze Age and late Antiquity." - Marc Van De Mieroop, Columbia University
"A distinguished range of international experts has contributed to Wiley-Blackwell's expansive new Encyclopedia of Ancient History. The modern undergraduate now has access, in libraries and at computers, to a dictionary of antiquity written in a straightforward and relaxed style that avoids the obscurantist over-compression of some of its rivals." - Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter
From the Back Cover
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History is the definitive print and electronic resource for the study of the history of the ancient world. Arranged in A–Z format and featuring over 5,000 entries ranging from 250 to 5,000 words, this ambitious 13-volume reference work covers the entire Mediterranean world – including the Near East and Egypt – and spans the late Bronze Age through the seventh century ce. The text is enhanced by hundreds of photographs, figures, and maps.
Written and edited by an internationally diverse team of editors and contributors, The Encyclopedia of Ancient History offers readers at all levels an invaluable research tool, unrivalled in scope and scholarship.
Online edition available on Wiley Online Library at www.encyclopediaancienthistory.com.
About the Author
Roger S. Bagnall is Professor of Ancient History and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. Before joining the NYU faculty in 2007, he was Jay Professor of Greek and Latin and Professor of History at Columbia University, where he had taught for 33 years. During that time he served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Chair of the Department of Classics. He specializes in the social and 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 Bruce Frier), and Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (1995).
Kai Brodersen is chair of Ancient History at the University of Mannheim and president-elect of the University of Erfurt in Germany. He has worked on Greek and Roman historiography and geography, inscriptions, oracles and wonder-texts, on economic history, and on the reception of the classical world.
Craige B. Champion received his graduate training in Classics and Ancient History at Princeton University. He is Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and former Chair of the History Department at Syracuse University. He has published widely on ancient Greek and Roman history and historiography. He is the author 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 and doctorate at New College Oxford. He has subsequently worked in the universities of Birmingham, Swansea, and University College Dublin. In 1997-98 he held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Munich. He held the chair of Classics at the National University of Ireland Galway until his arrival at the University of Edinburgh in January 2005. He is currently head of Classics.
Sabine R. Huebner is Privatdozentin of Ancient History at Freie Universität Berlin. She has published on the social and religious history of the Roman and later Roman East, on brother-sister marriage in Roman Egypt, old age in Classical Greece, Greek epigraphy, and papyrology. Her work include a monograph, Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spätantiken Kleinasiens (2005), a co-edited volume, Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity (2008), and a forthcoming study on Intergenerational Equity and Family Strategies in the Hellenistic and Roman East (2009).
