{"id":518875,"date":"2010-04-07T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-5343002827695462911"},"modified":"2010-04-07T06:43:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:43:13","slug":"new-book-tradition-and-transformation-egypt-under-roman-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518875","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Tradition and Transformation. Egypt under Roman Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brill.nl\/default.aspx?partid=210&amp;pid=34873\">Brill <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Book covers like this are always an indication that the book itself is going to cost a small fortune.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/S7xVB-WBCoI\/AAAAAAAAKcE\/tGhqn2DAo0Y\/s1600\/34873.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 180px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/S7xVB-WBCoI\/AAAAAAAAKcE\/tGhqn2DAo0Y\/s400\/34873.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457330340869769858\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In 30 BCE, Egypt became a province of the Roman empire. Alongside unbroken traditions\u2014especially of the indigenous Egyptian population, but also among the Greek elite\u2014major changes and slow processes of transformation can be observed. The multi-ethnical population was situated between new patterns of rule and traditional lifeways. This tension between change and permanence was investigated during the conference. The last decades have seen an increase in the interest in Roman Egypt with new research from different disciplines\u2014Egyptology, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Papyrology\u2014providing new insights into the written and archaeological sources, especially into settlement archaeology. Well-known scholars analysed the Egyptian temples, the structure and development of the administration beside archaeological, papyrological, art-historical and cult related questions.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-5343002827695462911?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brill Book covers like this are always an indication that the book itself is going to cost a small fortune. In 30 BCE, Egypt became a province of the Roman empire. Alongside unbroken traditions\u2014especially of the indigenous Egyptian population, but also among the Greek elite\u2014major changes and slow processes of transformation can be observed. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}