Walking in Ancient Egypt: Travel Notes by Classical Authors – IS – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-17-190073-1
Walking in Ancient Egypt: Travel Notes by Classical Authors
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Walking in Ancient Egypt: Travel Notes by Classical Authors
9.99 €
The reader is presented with a collection of works by ancient writers, travelers, historians, geographers, and philosophers, describing the customs, daily life, history, and country of one of the world's most ancient civilizations—Ancient Egypt. Even in classical antiquity, the Greeks and Romans cherished and expressed genuine interest in ancient Egyptian culture, pantheon, and geography, where the country's main breadwinner, the Nile River, flows from south to north. Beginning in the 7th century BC, the Greeks founded a colony in the land of the pharaohs. The city of Naucratis became a Greek center, and its inhabitants, developing trade, became part of a socio-cultural synthesis. Among the testimonies of ancient authors are references to things that, in their opinion, the Greeks borrowed from the Egyptians—the names of individual gods, religious cults and mysteries, the art of divination, geometry, and others.
This edition includes excerpts from works by the following authors: Herodotus of Halicarnassus's "History," Diodorus Siculus's "Historical Library," Strabo's "Geography," Flavius Arrian's "Anabasis of Alexander," Diogenes Laërtius's "On the Lives, Teachings, and Sayings of Famous Philosophers," and Ammianus Marcellinus's "History."
This edition includes excerpts from works by the following authors: Herodotus of Halicarnassus's "History," Diodorus Siculus's "Historical Library," Strabo's "Geography," Flavius Arrian's "Anabasis of Alexander," Diogenes Laërtius's "On the Lives, Teachings, and Sayings of Famous Philosophers," and Ammianus Marcellinus's "History."
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books in the series Historical guides