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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Evidence may emerge tomorrow which will turn today’s truth on its head-aware- ness of which tends to make documentary historians chary of committing them- selves to sweeping generalities. I can claim only a layman’s familiarity with the archaeological relics and the expertise necessary for critical analysis of those docu- ments which are written in languages other than Latin and Greek is absent; hence I have had to rely on published editions and translations of demotic and Coptic material. But the attempt at synthesis is nonetheless worth making it is hoped because there is no recent account in English which tries to exploit both the written and the archaeological evidence in order to see the impact of the presence of the Greeks and Romans in Egypt against the backdrop of the Egyptian tradition. This is intended to be the essence of the book and the narrative is deliberately offered with only the bald citation of some exemplary items of evidence avoiding the proliferation of footnotes replete with documentation bibliography and argument. My immense debts to friends and colleagues are impossible to enumerate the more especially because many of them have been incurred in discussion or corres- pondence over a long period of time. Some of my creditors will recognise their contributions and will I hope take their appearance as a compliment. If I avoid the invidiousness of naming some and excluding others that is not intended to under- state or obscure my acute consciousness either of my debt to them or of my fundamental reliance on a sustained tradition of accurate and magnanimous scholar- ship in the field of papyrology and the history of Graeco-roman Egypt. But for these the book such as it is would not exist at all. It is however a pleasure to make one exception in thanking Jane Rowlandson who painstakingly read the whole text and rescued me from many errors and obscurities. For those which remain I alone am responsible. For this revised paperback edition I have taken the opportunity to add a list of the locations of museum objects illustrated in the plates to correct some errors (for assistance with which I am particularly grateful to Professor John Baines Dr Willy Clarysse and Dr Susan Walker). 92% Q (LL)