Course Bibliography
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Bibliographical entries are listed here first by subject-heading then by author.
    Subject Headings (click on any subject to access readings):
  1. Reference Books and Encyclopedias
  2. Chronological Studies
  3. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C.:
    a. The Hurrians and the Kingdom of Mitanni
    b. The Hittites and Anatolia
    c. Mycenaeans and Aegeans: Commerce, Foreign Relations and Contacts with the East
    d. The Minoans, the Hyksos and the Island of Thera
    e. The Mediterranean Opium Trade
    f. The Historical Basis of the Trojan War: Near Eastern Perspectives
    g. The Sea People, Philistines and Iron Age Migrations
    h. The Phoenicians, Cyprus and the Levant
    i. Greek Contacts: Afrocentric Model
  4. The Eastern Mediterranean in the First Millennium B.C.:
    a. Anatolia and the Pre-Hellenistic Kingdoms
    b. Pre-Hellenistic Contacts and Influences: European Perceptions of the Near East
    c. Classical Writings on the Near East
    d. The Hellenistic World: Where West Joined East
    e. Hellenistic Science, Medicine and Technology
  5. Near Eastern General Histories: Pre-Hellenistic
  6. Near Eastern Literature and Text Anthologies

I. Reference Books and Encyclopedias

Baines, J. and Malek, J. Atlas of Ancient Egypt. New York: Facts on File, 1980.

Bard, K., editor. Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. London and New York: Routledge, 199.

Cambridge Ancient History. Eight volumes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Volume 1, part 1,Prolegomena and Prehistory, ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al. 1970.
Volume 1, part 2,Early History of the Middle East, ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al. 1971.
Volume 2, part 1,History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1800-1380 B.C., ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al. 1973.
Volume 2, part 2,History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1380-1000 B.C., ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al. 1975.
Volume 3, part 1,The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean World, Tenth to Eight centuries B.C., ed. J. Boardman et al. 1982.
Volume 3, part 2,The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C., ed. J. Boardman et al. 1991.

Dawson, W. R and E. P. Uphill. Who Was Who in Egyptology. Third edition, revised by M. L. Bierbrier. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1995.

Egyptological Bibliography, 1822-1997. Leiden: Netherlands Institute for the Near East, 2001. On CD-ROM. [DT43.E397 1822- 1997] [Reference Room]

Harris, J. R., ed. The Legacy of Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. [DT61.H28 1971] [Reserve]

Lexikon der Ägyptologie, eds. Helck, W., E. Otto and W. Westendorf. Seven volumes. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975-1989. (This is the professionals' encyclopedia of ancient Egypt. Some articles are in English, while others are in German or French. Use German and French dictionaries to look up foreign words. Even if you do not read German or French, all articles contain highly useful bibliographies.)

Manley, Bill. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt. London: Penguin Books, 1996.

Meyers, Eric M., editor. Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Ancient Near East. Five volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. [DS56.O9 1997] [Reference]

Redford, Donald B., editor. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. [DT58.O94 2001] [Reserve]

Sasson, Jack M., editor. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Four volumes. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]


II. Chronological Studies

Åström, Paul, ed. High, Middle or Low? Acts of an International Colloquium on Absolute Chronology Held at the University of Gothenburg 20th-22nd August 1987. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature 56. Gothenburg: Paul Åströms Förlag, 1987.

Dever, William G. "Tell el-Daba` and Levantine Middle Bronze Age Chronology: A Rejoinder to Manfred Bietak." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 73-79.

Ehrich Robert W., ed. Chronologies in Old World Archaeology. Two volumes. Third edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. [D54.5.C48 1992]

Kitchen, Kenneth A. "The Basics of Egyptian Chronology." In High, Middle or Low? Acts of an International Colloquium on Absolute Chronology Held at the University of Gothenburg 20th-22nd August 1987, ed. Paul Åström, 37-55. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature 56. Gothenburg: Paul Åströms Förlag, 1987.

Manning, Sturt W. A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the Mid-Second Millennium BC. Oxford: Oxbow Books Ltd., 1999. [QE523.S27 M362 1999]

Walberg, Gisela. "Middle Minoan Chronology: Relative and Absolute." In High, Middle or Low? Acts of an International Colloquium on Absolute Chronology Held at the University of Gothenburg 20th-22nd August 1987, ed. Paul Åström, 67-73. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature 56. Gothenburg: Paul Åströms Förlag, 1987.

Weinstein, James M. "Reflections on the Chronology of Tell el-Dab'a." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 84-90. London: British Museum, 1995.


III. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C.

a. The Hurrians and the Kingdom of Mitanni

Goetze, A. "The Struggle for the Domination of Syria (1400-1300 B.C.)." In Cambridge Ancient History. Third edition. Volume 2, part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1380-1000 B.C., ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al., 1-20. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. [D57.25 v.2 pt. 2] [Reference]

Wilhelm, Gernot. The Hurrians, trans. Jennifer Barnes. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1989. [DS59.H8 W5413 1989]

Wilhelm, Gernot. Hurrians: Ancient Near East. Oxford: David Brown Bk. Co., 1989.

Wilhelm, Gernot. "The Kingdom of Mitanni in Second Millennium Upper Mesopotamia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1243-1255. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]


b. The Hittites and Anatolia

Archi, A. "Hittite and Hurrian Literatures: An Overview." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 4, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 2367-78. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Beckman, G. Hittite Diplomatic Texts, ed. H. A. Hoffner. Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World Series. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.

Beckman, G. "Royal Ideology and State Administration in Hittite Anatolia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 1, ed. Jack M. Sasson,529-44. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Bryce, T. The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Cline, Eric H. "Hittite Objects in the Bronze Age Aegean." Anatolian Studies: Journal of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara 41 (1991).

Cline, Eric H. "Hittites." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Volume 2, ed. Donald B. Redford, 111-114. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. [DT58.O94 2001] [Reserve]

Cline, Eric H. "A Possible Hittite Embargo against the Mycenaeans." Historia 40 (1991): 1-9.

Cline, Eric H. "Warriors of Hatti: The Rise and Fall of the Hittites." Archaeology Odyssey 5 (January/February 2002): 44-46.

Goetze, A. "Anatolia from Shuppiluliumash to the Egyptian War of Muwatallish" In Cambridge Ancient History. Third edition. Volume 2, part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1380-1000 B.C., ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al., 117-129. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. [D57.25 v.2 pt. 2] [Reference]

Goetze, A. "The Hittites and Syria, 1300-1200 B.C." In Cambridge Ancient History. Third edition. Volume 2, part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1380-1000 B.C., ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al., __. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. [D57.25 v.2 pt. 2] [Reference]

Gurney, O. R. The Hittites. 2nd ed., rev. London: Viking-Penguin Books, 1990.

Güterbock, Hans G. "The Hittites in the Aegean World. Part I: The Ahhiyawa Problem Reconsidered." American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983): 133-138. [Periodical Room]

Hoffner, H. A. Hittite Myths, ed. G. Beckman. Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World 2. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.

Hoffner, H. A. "Legal and Social Institutions of Hittite Anatolia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 1, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 555-70. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Houwink ten Cate, P. H. J. "Ethnic Diversity and Population Movement in Anatolia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 1, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 259-70. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Huxley, G. L. Achaeans and the Hittites. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Imparati, F. "Private Life Among the Hittites." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 1, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 571-86. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Macqueen, J. G. "The History of Anatolia and the Hittite Empire: An Overview." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1085-1106. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Macqueen, J. G. The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor. Revised edition, enlarged. New York and London: Thames and Hudson, 1996.

Melchert, H. C. Indo-European Languages in Anatolia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 4, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 2151-60. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Mellink, Machteld, J. "Archaeological Comments on the Ahhiyawa-Achaians in Western Anatolia." American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983): 138-141. [Periodical Room]

Osten, Hans H. von der. Explorations in Hittite Asia Minor. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971.

Singer, I. "New Evidence on the End of the Hittite Empire." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 21-34. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Van den Hout, T. P. J. "Khattushili III: King of the Hittites." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1107-20. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Vermule, Emily T. "Responses to Hans Güterbock." American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983): 141-143. [Periodical Room]

Zimanski, P. E. "The Kingdom of Urartu in Eastern Anatolia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1135-46. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]


c. Mycenaeans and Aegeans: Commerce, Foreign Relations and Contacts with the East

Cline, Eric. H. "Amenhotep III and the Aegean: A Reassessment of Egypto-Aegean Relations in the 14th Century B.C." Orientalia, n.s. 56 (1987): 1-36.

Cline, Eric H., "Amenhotep III, the Aegean and Anatolia." In Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign, ed. David O'Connor and Eric H. Cline, 236-50. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. [DT87.38.A45 1998] [Reserve]

Cline, Eric H. "Eastern Imports at Mainland Greek Sites: The Contributions of Wace and Blegen." In Wace and Blegen: Pottery as Evidence for Trade in the Aegean Bronze Age, 1939-1989. Proceedings of the International Conference Held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, December 2-3, 1989, ed. Carol Zerner, Peter Zerner and John Winder, 225-230. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1993.

Cline, E. H. "Egyptian and Near Eastern Imports at Late Bronze Age Mycenae." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 91-115. London: British Museum, 1995.

Cline, Eric H. "Mycenae." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Volume 2, ed. Donald B. Redford, 457-459. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. [DT58.O94 2001] [Reserve]

Cline, Eric H. "Orientalia in the Late Bronze Age: A Catalogue and Analysis of Trade and Contacts between the Aegean and Egypt, Anatolia and the Near East." Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1991.University Microfilms Order No.9125617.

Cline, E. H. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1994.

Cline, Eric H. "An Unpublished Egyptian Faience Plaque from Mycenae: A Key to a New Reconstruction." Journal of the American Oriental Society 110 (1990): 200-212.

Cline, Eric H. Review of Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations, ed. Raymond Cohen and Raymond Westbrook. In American Journal of Archaeology 105 (2001): 340-341.

Cline, Eric H. and Diane Harris-Cline, eds. The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Symposium, Cincinnati, 18-20 April 1997. Liège and Austin: Université de Liège, Histoire de l'art et archéologie de la Grèce antique and University of Texas at Austin, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, 1998. [DF220.A343 1998]

Cline, Eric H and Martin J. Cline. "Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean." Expedition 33 (1991).

Cohen, Raymond and Raymond Westbrook, eds. Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. [DS62.23.A43 2000]

Davies, W. V. and Schofield, L., editors. Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC. London: British Museum, 1995.

Foster, K. P. and R. K. Ritner. "Texts, Storms and the Thera Eruption." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996): 1-14. [Periodicals Room]

Güterbock, Hans G. "The Hittites in the Aegean World. Part I: The Ahhiyawa Problem Reconsidered." American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983): 133-138. [Periodical Room]

Hankey, V. "Stirrup Jars at El-Amarna." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 116-124. London: British Museum, 1995.

Hooker, James T. The Coming of the Greeks. Claremont: Association of Ancient Historians and Regina Books, 1999. (n.b.: about the origins of the Mycenaeans) [DF 220 H64 1999]

Huxley, G. L. Achaeans and the Hittites. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Kantor, H. J. The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium B.C. The Archaeological Institute of America Monograph 1. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 1947. Reprinted 1997.

Kemp, Barry. "Explaining Ancient Crises." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1/2 (October 1991): 239-244.

Lambrou-Phillipson, G. Hellenorientalia. The Near Eastern Presence in the Bronze Age Aegean, ca. 3000-1100 B.C: Interconnections Based on the Material Record and the Written Evidence, Plus Orientalia. A Catalogue of Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Mitannian, Syro-Palestinian, Cypriot and Asia Minor Objects from the Bronze Age Aegean. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology Pocket-Book 95. Göteborg:, Paul Åströms Förlag, 1990.

Mellink, Machteld J. "Archaeological Comments on the Ahhiyawa-Achaians in Western Anatolia." American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983): 138-141. [Periodical Room]

Parkinson, R. and Schofield, L. "Akhenaten's Army?" Egyptian Archaeology 3 (1993): 34-35.

Parkinson, R. and Schofield, L. "Images of Mycenaeans: A Recently Acquired Painted Papyrus from El-Amarna." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 125-26. London: British Museum, 1995.

Stos-Gale, Z, Gale, N. and Houghton, J. "The Origins of Egyptian Copper: Lead-Isotope Analysis of Metals from El-Amarna." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 127-35. London: British Museum, 1995.

Tubb, J. "An Aegean Presence in Egypto-Canaan." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 136-45. London: British Museum, 1995.

Vermule, Emily T. "Responses to Hans Güterbock." American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983): 141-143. [Periodical Room]

Wachsmann, Shelley. Aegeans in the Theban Tombs. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 20. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 1987.

Wachsmann, Shelley. Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. [DE61.S43 W33 1998]

Wiener, Malcolm H. and James P. Allen. "Separate Lives: The Ahmose Tempest Stela and the Theran Eruption." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 57 (1998): 1-28. [Periodicals Room]


d. The Minoans, the Hyksos and the Island of Thera

Bietak, Manfred. Avaris: Capital of the Hyksos: Recent Excavations at Tell el-Dab'a. London: British Museum Press, 1996.

Bietak, Manfred. "Connections Between Egypt and the Minoan World: New Results from Tell el-Dab'a/Avaris." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 19-28. London: British Museum, 1995.

Bietak, Manfred. "Minoan Wall-Paintings Unearthed at Ancient Avaris." Egyptian Archaeology 2 (1992): 26-28.

Bietak, Manfred and Marinatos, Nannó. "The Minoan Wall Paintings from Avaris." Ägypten und Levante 5 (1995): 49-62.

Dever, William G. "Tell el-Daba` and Levantine Middle Bronze Age Chronology: A Rejoinder to Manfred Bietak." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 281 (February, 1991): 73-79.

Foster, B. R. "The Late Bronze Age Palace Economy: A View from the East." In The Function of the Minoan Palaces: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 10-16 June 1984, ed. R. Hägg and N. Marinatos, 11-16. Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae. Series in 4, 35. Stockholm: Svenska Institut Athens, 1987.

Foster, K. P. and R. K. Ritner. "Texts, Storms and the Thera Eruption." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996): 1-14. [Periodicals Room]

Hägg, R. and N. Marinatos, eds. The Function of the Minoan Palaces: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 10-16 June 1984. Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae. Series in 4, 35. Stockholm: Svenska Institut Athens, 1987.

Hankey, Vronwy. "Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant." Egyptian Archaeology 3 (1993): 27-29.

Helck, W. "The Dissolution of the Palace Economy in the Ramesside Period." In The Function of the Minoan Palaces: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 10-16 June 1984, ed. R. Hägg and N. Marinatos, 17-19. Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae. Series in 4, 35. Stockholm: Svenska Institut Athens, 1987.

Hiller, S. "Palast und Tempel im alten Orient und im minoischen Kreta." In The Function of the Minoan Palaces: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 10-16 June 1984, ed. R. Hägg and N. Marinatos, 57-64. Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae. Series in 4, 35. Stockholm: Svenska Institut Athens, 1987.

Macguire, L. C. "Tell el-Dab'a: The Cypriot Connection." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 54-65. London: British Museum, 1995.

Manning, Sturt W. A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the Mid-Second Millennium BC. Oxford: Oxbow Books Ltd., 1999. [QE523.S27 M362 1999]

Marinatos, Nannó. "The 'Export' Significance of Minoan Bull Hunting and Bull Leaping Scenes." Ägypten und Levante 4 (1994): 89-93.

Morgan, L. "Minoan Painting and Egypt: The Case of Tell el-Dab'a." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 29-53. London: British Museum, 1995.

Philip, G. "Tell el-Dab'a Metalwork: Patterns and Purpose." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 66-83. London: British Museum, 1995.

Redford, Donald R. "The Hyksos Invasion in History and Tradition." Orientalia n.s. 39 (1970): 1-51.

Shaw, Maria C. "Bull Leaping Frescoes at Knossos and their Influence on the Tell el-Dab'a Murals." Ägypten und Levante 5 (1995): 91-120.

Warren, P. "Minoan Crete and Pharaonic Egypt." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 1-18. London: British Museum, 1995.

Watrous, L. V. "The Role of the Near East in the Rise of the Cretan Palaces." in The Function of the Minoan Palaces: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 10-16 June 1984, ed. R. Hägg and N. Marinatos, 65-70. Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae. Series in 4, 35. Stockholm: Svenska Institut Athens, 1987.

Weinstein, James M. "Reflections on the Chronology of Tell el-Dab'a." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 84-90. London: British Museum, 1995.

Weingarten, J. The Transformation of Egyptian Taweret into the Minoan Genius: A Study in Cultural Transmission in the Middle Bronze Age. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 87. Partille: Paul Åströms Förlag, 1991.

Weinstein, J. M. "Reflections on the Chronology of Tell el-Dab'a." In Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC, ed. W. V. Davies and L. Schofield, 84-90. London: British Museum, 1995.

Wiener, M. "Trade and Rule in Palatial Crete." in The Function of the Minoan Palaces: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 10-16 June 1984, ed. R. Hägg and N. Marinatos, 261-267. Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae. Series in 4, 35. Stockholm: Svenska Institut Athens, 1987.

Wiener, M. H. and J. P. Allen. "Separate Lives: The Ahmose Tempest Stela and the Theran Eruption." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 57 (1998): 1-28. [Periodicals Room]


e. The Mediterranean Opium Trade

Bisset, N. G. "Was Opium Known in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt?" Journal of Ethnopharmacology 41 (1994): 99-101.

Crawford [Thompson], Dorothy J. "The Opium Poppy: A Study in Ptolemaic Agriculture." In Problèmes de la terre en Grèce ancienne, ed. M. Finlay, 223-51. Paris: Mouton, 1973.

Gabra, S. "Papaver Species and Opium through the Ages." Bulletin de l'Institut d'Égypte 37 (1956): 39-56.

Krikorian, A. D. "Were the Opium Poppy and Opium Known in the Ancient Near East?' Journal of the History of Biology 8 (1978): 94-114.

Merlin, M. D. On the Trail of the Ancient Opium Poppy. London-Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1984.

Merrillees, Robert S. "Opium Trade in the Bronze Age Levant." Antiquity 36 (1962): 287-92.


f. The Historical Basis of the Trojan War: Near Eastern Perspectives

Blegen, Carl W. "Troy VI." In Cambridge Ancient History. Third edition. Volume 2, part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1380-1000 B.C., ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al., 161-164. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. [D57.25 v.2 pt. 2] [Reference]

Güterbock, Hans G. "The Hittites in the Aegean World. Part I: The Ahhiyawa Problem Reconsidered." American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983): 133-138. [Periodical Room]

Huxley, G. L. Achaeans and the Hittites. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Jansen, H. G. "Troy: Legend and Reality." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1121-1134. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Mellink, Machteld, J. "Archaeological Comments on the Ahhiyawa-Achaians in Western Anatolia." American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983): 138-141. [Periodical Room]

Page, D. L. History and the Homeric Illiad. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1959.

Thomas, Carol G. "Troy: War and Metaphor." Chapter in Myth Becomes History: Pre-Classical Greece, __. Claremont, California: Regina Books, 1993.

Vermule, Emily T. "Responses to Hans Güterbock." American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983): 141-143. [Periodical Room]

Wood, Michael. In Search of the Trojan War. New York: Plume Books, 1985.


g. The Sea People, Philistines and Iron Age Migrations

Albright, William F. "Some Oriental Glosses on the Homeric Problem." American Journal of Archaeology 54 (1950): 162-176.

Barnett, R. D. "Mopsos." Journal of Hellenistic Studies 73 (1953): 140.

Barnett, R. D. "The Sea Peoples." In Cambridge Ancient History. Third edition. Volume 2, part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1380-1000 B.C., ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al., 359-378. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. [D57.25 v.2 pt. 2] [Reference]

Betancourt, Philip P. "The Aegean and the Origin of the Sea Peoples." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 297-304. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Cline, Eric H. Review of The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C., by Robert Drews. In Journal of Near Eastern Studies 56 (April 1997): 127-129. [Periodicals Room]

Dothan, T. and Dothan, M. The People of the Sea: The Search for the Philistines. New York: Macmillan, 1992. [DS90.D63 1992]

Dothan, T. The Philistines and Their Material Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. [DS90.D613 1982]

Dothan, Trude. "Reflections on the Initial Phase of Philistine Settlement." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren,145-158 University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Dothan, T. "The 'Sea Peoples' and the Philistines of Ancient Palestine." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1267-1281. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Drews, Robert. The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. [DF220.D73 1988]

Drews, Robert. The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. [GN778.3.A1.D74 1993]

Edgerton, W. F. and Wilson, J. A. The Historical Records of Ramses III: The Texts in Medinet Habu Volumes I and II. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 12. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936.

Finkelstein, Israel. "The Philistine Settlements: When, Where and How Many?." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 159-180. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Gitin, S. "The Last Days of the Philistines." Archaeology 45/3 (May/June, 1992): 26-31. [Periodicals Room]

Karageorghis, Vassos. "Cultural Innovations in Cyprus Relating to the Sea Peoples." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 255-280. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Killebrew, Ann E. "Aegean-Style Early Philistine Pottery in Canaan During the Iron I Age: A Stylistic Analysis of Mycenaean IIIC:lb Pottery and Its Associated Wares." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren,233-254. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Kling, Barbara. "Mycenaean IIIC:lb and Related Pottery in Cyprus: Comments on the Current State of Research." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 281-296. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Machinist, Peter. "Biblical Traditions: The Philistines and Israelite History." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 53-84. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Mazar, Amihai. "The Temples and Cult of the Philistines." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 213-232. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

O'Connor, David. "The Sea Peoples and Egyptian Sources." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. Eliezer D. Oren, 85-102. University Museum Monographs, 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia, The University Museum, 2000.

Oren, Eliezer D., ed. The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment. University Museum Monographs, volume 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Raban, A. and Stieglitz, R. "The Sea Peoples and Their Contribution to Civilization." Biblical Archaeology Review 17/6 (Nov/Dec., 1991): 34-43. [Periodicals Room]

Singer, I. "New Evidence on the End of the Hittite Empire." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 21-34. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Stern, Ephraim."The Settlement of Sea Peoples in Northern Israel." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 197-212. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Tubb, Jonathan N. "Sea Peoples in the Jordan Valley." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 181-196. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Vagnetti, Lucia. "Western Mediterranean Overview: Peninsular Italy, Sicily and Sardinia at the Time of the Sea Peoples." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 305-326. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Wachsmann, Shelley. "To the Sea of the Philistines" In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren,103-144. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Wood, B. G. "The Philistines Enter Canaan." Biblical Archaeology Review 17/6 (Nov/Dec., 1991): 44-52. [Periodicals Room]


h. The Phoenicians, Cyprus and the Levant

Aubet, María E. The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies, and Trade, trans. Mary Turton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Casson, Stanley. Ancient Cyprus: Its Art and Archaeology. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1970.

Caubet, Annie. "Ras Shamra-Ugarit Before the Sea Peoples." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 35-52. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.

Cline, Eric H. "Cyprus." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Volume 1, ed. Donald B. Redford, 350. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. [DT58.O94 2001] [Reserve]

Curtis, Adrian. Ugarit (Ras Shamra). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1985.

Drower, M. "Ugarit." In Cambridge Ancient History. Third edition. Volume 2, part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1380-1000 B.C., ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al., 130-160. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. [D57.25 v.2 pt. 2] [Reference]

Harden, Donald B. The Phoenicians. New York: Praeger, 1962.

Herm, Gerhard. The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient World, trans. Caroline Hillier. New York: Morrow, 1975.

Karageorghis, Vassos. Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries in Cyprus. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.

Karageorghis, Vassos. View from the Bronze Age: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries at Kition. New York: Dutton, 1976.

Lipiski, E. "The Phoenicians." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1321-1334. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Merrillees, Robert S. "The Languages of Cyprus." Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes 20 (1993): 3-18.

Mitford, Terence B. The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1971.

Moscati, Sabatino. The World of the Phoenicians, trans. Alastair Hamilton. New York: Praeger, 1968.


i. Greek Contacts: Afrocentric Model

Bernal, M. "Black Athena and the American Philological Association." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 17-38. [DF78.B3981 1989]

Bernal, M. Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Volume 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985. Volume 2, The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987, 1991. [DF78.B398 1987]

Bernal, M. Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics, ed. David Chioni Moore. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. [DF78.B3984 2001]

Bernal, M. Cadmean Letters: The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and Further West before 1400 B.C. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1990. [P211.B47 1990]

Bernal, M. "On The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean Before 1400 B.C." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 267 (1987): 1-19. [Periodicals Room]

Bernal, M. "Response to Jonathan Hall, 'Black Athena: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?'" Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/2 (1990): 275-79.

Bernal, M. "Response to Stuart Manning, 'Frames of Reference for the Past: Some Thoughts on Bernal, Truth and Reality,'" Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/2 (1990): 280-82.

Bernal, M. "Responses to Critical Reviews of Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Vol. 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 111-37.

Bernal, M. Review of Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History, by M. R. Lefkowitz (1996). Located on the World Wide Web (Internet); URL: gopher://gopher.lib.virginia.edu:70/00/alpha/bmcr/v96/96-4-5.

Bikai, P. M. "Black Athena and the Phoenicians." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 67-75.

Burstein, Stanley M. Review of Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization by M. Bernal. In CP 8 (1993): 157-162.

Coleman, John E. "Did Egypt Shape the Glory that was Greece?" In Black Athena Revisited, ed. M. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers, 280-302. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Green, T. "Black Athena and Classical Historiography: Other Approaches, Other Views." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 55-66. [DF78.B3981 1989]

Hall, J. "Black Athena: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?" Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/2 (1990): 247-54.

Lefkowitz, M. R. Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History. New York: BasicBooks, 1996. [DT14.L44 1996]

Lefkowitz, M. R. "Not Out of Africa: The Origins of Greece and the Illusions of Afrocentrists." The New Republic 206/6 (February 10, 1992): 29-36. [Periodicals Room--Microfilm Collection]

Lefkowitz, M. R. "The Origins of the 'Stolen Legacy.'" In Alternatives to Afrocentrism, ed. J. J. Miller, 22-25. Second edition. Washington, D.C.: Center for Equal Opportunity, 1996. [DT14.A47 1996]

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Lefkowitz, M. and Rogers, G. M., eds. Black Athena Revisited. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. [DF78.B54 1996]

Levine, M. "The Challenge of Black Athena to Classics Today." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 7-16. [DF78.B3981 1989]

Manning, S. "Frames of Reference for the Past: Some Thoughts on Bernal, Truth and Reality." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/2 (1990): 255-74.

Miller, J. Review of Cadmean Letters, by M. Bernal. In Andrews University Seminary Studies 29/2 (Summer, 1991): 167-68.

Morris, S. "Daidalos and Kadmos: Classicism and 'Orientalism'." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 39-54. [DF78.B3981 1989]

Morris, S. "Greece and the Levant." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 57-66.

Muhly, J. D. "Black Athena Versus Traditional Scholarship." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 83-110.

O'Connor, D. "Egypt and Greece: The Bronze Age Evidence." Black Athena Revisited, ed. M. Lefkowitz and G. M. Rogers, 49-61. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Piccione, P. A. "Report and Comments on the Black Athena Session at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association" (1995). Located on the World Wide Web (Internet); URL: ftp://newton.newton.cam.ac.uk/pub/ancient/egypt/athena.txt

Ray, J. D. "An Egyptian Perspective." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3/1 (1990): 77-81.

Rendsburg, G. "Black Athena: An Etymological Response." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 67-82. [DF78.B3981 1989]

Turner, F. "Martin Bernal's Black Athena: A Dissent." Arethusa, Special Issue: The Challenge of "Black Athena" (Fall, 1989): 97-109. [DF78.B3981 1989]

Weinstein, J. Review of Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization by M. Bernal. In American Journal of Archaeology 96 (1992): 381- 83.


IV. The Eastern Mediterranean in the First Millennium B.C.

a. Anatolia and the Pre-Hellenistic Kingdoms

Bryce, T. "The Lycian Kingdom in Southwest Anatolia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1161-72. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Greenewalt, C. H., Jr. "Croesus of Sardis and the Lydian Kingdom of Anatolia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1173-83. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Ray, J. D. "Soldiers to Pharaoh: The Carians of Southwest Anatolia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1185-94. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Sams, G. K. "King Midas of Gordion and the Anatolian Kingdom of Phrygia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 1161-72. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Voigt, Mary M. and Robert C. Henrickson. "The Early Iron Age at Gordion: The Evidence from the Yassihoyuk Stratigraphic Sequence." In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, ed. E. Oren, 327-360. University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000.


b. Pre-Hellenistic Contacts and Influences:
European Perceptions of the Near East

Boardman, John. The Greeks Overseas: Their Early Colonies and Trade. Revised edition, enlarged. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980. [DF 251 B6 1980]

Burkert, W. The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. [DF78.B85 1992] [Reserve]

Burstein, Stanley M. "Images of Egypt in Greek Historiography." In Ancient Egyptian Literature: History and Forms, ed. Antonio Loprieno, 591-604. Probleme der Ägyptologie 10. Leiden-New York-Köln: E. J. Brill, 1996. [PJ1481.A53 1996]

Cook, J. M. The Greeks in Ionia and the East. Ancient Peoples and Places 31. London: Thames and Hudson, 1962. [DF 251 C6]

Drews, Robert. Greek Accounts of Eastern History. Cambridge and Washington, D.C.: Harvard University and the Center for Hellenic Studies, 1973. [DS 61.6 D73]

Hoffman, Gail L. Imports and Immigrants: Near Eastern Contacts with Iron Age Crete. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Isserlin, B. "The Transfer of the Alphabet to the Greeks: The State of the Documentation." In Phoinikea Grammata: Actes du Colloque de Liége 15-18 Novembre 1989, ed. Cl. Baurain et al., 283-91. Collections d'études classiques, vol. 6. Namur: Societé des Études Classiques, 1991.

Kákosy, László. "Egypt in Ancient Greek and Roman Thought." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 1, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 3-14. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Kuhrt, Amélie. Ancient Mesopotamia in Classical Greek and Hellenistic Thought." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 1, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 55-66. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

Lambrou-Phillipson, G. Hellenorientalia. The Near Eastern Presence in the Bronze Age Aegean, ca. 3000-1100 B.C: Interconnections Based on the Material Record and the Written Evidence, Plus Orientalia. A Catalogue of Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Mitannian, Syro-Palestinian, Cypriot and Asia Minor Objects from the Bronze Age Aegean. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology Pocket-Book 95. Göteborg:, Paul Åströms Förlag, 1990.

Millard, A. R. "The Infancy of the Alphabet." World Archaeology 17 (1986): 390-98. [JSTOR]

Möller, Astrid. Naukratis: Trade in Archaic Greece. Oxford: Oxford University press, 2000. [DT 73.N3 M65 2000]

Powell, B. "Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2/1 (1991): 116-126.

Rollinger, Robert. "The Ancient Greeks and the Impact of the Ancient Near East: Textual Evidence and Historical Perspective (ca. 750-650 BC)." In Mythology and Mythologies: Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences, ed. R. M. Whiting, 233-64. Melammu Symposia 2. Helsinki, 2001.

De Salvia, Fulvio. "Stages and Aspects of the Egyptian Religious and Magic Influences on Archaic Greece." In Akten des vierten Internationalen Ägyptologen-Kongresses München 1985. Volume 4, Geschichte - Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte - Rechtsgeschichte - Nachbarkulturen, ed. Sylvia Schoske, pp. 335-343. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Beihefte, 1-4. Hamburg, Helmut Buske Verlag, 1988-1991.

Venit, Marjorie S. Greek Painted Pottery from Naukratis in Egyptian Museums. Winona Lake: The American Research Center in Egypt, Inc, and Eisenbrauns, 1988.

Venit, Marjorie S. "Painted Pottery from the Greek Mainland Found in Egypt, 640-450 B.C. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, New York University. 1983. University Microfilms , order no. 8307862

West, Martin L. "Ancient Near Eastern Myths in Classical Greek Religious Thought." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 1, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 15-32. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]


c. Classical Writings on the Near East

Delia, Diana. "The Refreshing Water of Osiris." Journal of the American Research center in Egypt 29 (1992): 181-190.

Diodorus [Siculus]. The Antiquities of Asia, trans. E. Murphy. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1989. [PA3965.D4 E5 1989]

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962-1971. [PA3965.D3 1933]

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus On Egypt, trans. E. Murphy. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc., 1985. [PA3965.D4 E5 1990]

Herodotus Book II, ed. Alan B. Lloyd. Three volumes. Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1975-1988. [PA4002.A32 L6 v.1-3]

Herodotus. The Histories, trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt. Revised edition. London: Penguin Books, 1972. [D58.H4713 1972]

Katary, Sally L. D. "The Two Brothers as Folktale: Constructing the Social Context." Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 24 (1994): 39-70.

Manetho, trans. W. G. Waddell. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940. [PA3612.M3 1940]

Obsomer, C. Les Campagnes de Sésostris dans Hérodote: Essai d'interpretation du texte grec à la lumière des realités égyptiennes. Brussels: Connaissance de l'Egypte ancienne, 1989.

Obsomer, C. "Herodote, Strabon et le 'mystere' du Labyrinthe d'Egypte." In Amosiades: Melanges offerts au Professeur Claude Vandersleyen par ses anciens etudiants.

Plato. Phaedrus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. [B380.A5 N53 1998]

Plato, the Atlantis Story: Timaeus 17-27, Critias, ed. Christopher Gill. Bristol [Avon]: Bristol Classical Press, 1980. [PA4279.T7 1980]

Plato: Timaeus and Critias, trans. H. D. P. Lee. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1977.

Plutarch De Iside et Osiride, ed. J. Gwyn Griffiths. Cambridge: University of Wales Press, 1970.

Stewart, J. A. The Myths of Plato. London: 1905.

Strabo, The Geography of Strabo with an English Translation by H. L. Jones. Eight volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959-1961. [PA3612.S8 1959]

Taylor, A. E. A Commentary on Plato's Timaeus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1928.

Verbrugghe, G. P. and John M. Wickersham. Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1996. [DS73.2.V47 1996]


d. The Hellenistic World:
Where West Joined East

Alexandria and Alexandrianism: Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by The J. Paul Getty Museum and The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and Held at the Museum April 22-25, 1993. Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996. [N5888.A54 A44 1996]

Austin, M. M. The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest: A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Bradford, Ernle. Cleopatra. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.

Chaveau, Michael. Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra, trans. David Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Fowden, G. The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Green, Peter. Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age. Hellenistic Culture and Society 1. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of california Press, 1990.

Habicht, Christian. Hellenistic Monarchies: Selected Papers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.

Hölbl, Günther. A History of the Ptolemaic Empire, trans. Tina Saavedra. London: Routledge, 2001.

Jarcho, S. "The Correspondence of Morgagni and Lancisi on the Death of Cleopatra." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 43 (1969): 299-325.

Kuhrt, Amélie and Susan Sherwin-White, eds. Hellenism in the East: Interaction of Greek and Non-Greek Civilizations after Alexander's Conquest. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. [DS57.H388 1987]

Lewis, Naphtali. Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt. Oxford: Oxford Unversity Press, 1986.

Macurdy, Grace H. Hellenistic Queens: A Study of Woman-power in Macedonia, Seleucid Syria, and Ptolemaic Egypt. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology 14. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1932. Reprinted New York: AMS Press, 1977.

Pomeroy, Sarah B. Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra. Detroit: Wayne State University,1990. [HQ1137.E3 P65 1990]

Préaux, C. "Graeco-Roman Egypt." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 323-54. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. [DT61.H28 1971] [Reserve]

Riad, H. "Egyptian Influence on Daily Life in Ancient Alexandria." In Alexandria and Alexandrianism. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by The J. Paul Getty Museum and The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and Held at the Museum April 22-25, 1993. Pages 29-39. Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996. [N5888.A54 A44 1996]

Ritner, R. "Implicit Models of Cross-Cultural Interaction: A Question of Noses, Soap, and Prejudice." In Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond, ed. J. H. Johnson, 283-90. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 51. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1992.

Roberts, C. H. "The Greek Papyri." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 355-89. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. [DT61.H28 1971] [Reserve]

Thompson, Dorothy J. Memphis under the Ptolemies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. [DT73.M5 T46 1988]

Vasunia, Phiroze. Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. [DT61.V36 2001]

Venit, Marjorie S. "Ancient Egyptomania: The Uses of Egypt in Graeco-Roman Alexandria." In: Leaving No Stone Unturned: Essays on the Ancient Near East and Egypt in Honor of Donald P. Hansen, ed. Erica Ehrenberg, 261-278. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2002.

Walbank, F. W. The Hellenistic World. Revised edition. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1993. [DF77 W35 1993]

Whitehorne, J. Cleopatras. London: Routledge, 1994.


e. Hellenistic Science, Medicine and Technology

Abadir, F. M. "The Ancient Alexandria School of Medicine." Alexandria Medical Journal 1/1 (1955): 39-46.

Amundsen, D. W. and Ferngren, G. B. "The Forensic Role of Physicians in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 52 (1978): 336-53.

Bernal, M. "Animadversions on the Origin of Western Science." Isis 83/4 (1992): 596-607.

Catonne, J. P. "L'hysterie hippocratique. [Hippocratic Concept of Hysteria]." Annales Médico-Psychologiques 150 (December 1992): 705-19.

Clarysse, W. "Some Greeks in Egypt." In Life in A Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond, ed. J. H. Johnson, 51-56. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 51. Chicago: The Oriental Instiute, 1992.

Copenhaver, B. P. Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation with Notes and Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Diamantopoulos, T. Iatrike sten archaia Aigypto [in Greek]. Patra: [n.p.], 1994.

Forbes, R. J. Studies in Ancient Technology. Four volumes. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955-1956.

Friedlander, W. J. The Golden Wand of Medicine: A History of the Caduceus Symbol in Medicine. Contributions in Medical Studies 35. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Gazzaniga, V. and de Angelis, E. "L'oncologia ginecologia dai papiro egiziani ai testi ippocratici." Medicina nei Secoli 6 (1994): 117-38.

Hipparchus Bithynius. The Geographical Fragments of Hipparchus, ed. D. R. Dicks. London: University of London, Athlone Press, 1960. [G87 H57 D5]

Ghalioungui, P. "A Comparison Between the Medical Plants Mentioned in Graeco-Roman and Ancient Egyptian Papyri." Bulletin of the Center of Papyrological Studies 3 (1986): 9-16.

Ghalioungui, P. "The Relation of Pharaonic to Greek and Later Medicine." Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library 15 (1968): 96-107.

Harris, J. R. "Medicine." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, ed. J. R. Harris, 112-37. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. [DT61.H28 1971] [Reserve]

Hodges, Henry. Technology in the Ancient World. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1992. [T16.H63 1992]

Hort, A., Sir. Theophrastus' Enquiry into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs. The Loeb Classical Library 70. London: William Heinemann, 1968.

Longrigg, J. Greek Rational Medicine: Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians. London: Routledge, 1993. [R138L651993]

Longrigg, J. Superlative Achievement and Comparative Neglect: Alexandrian Medical Science and Modern Historical Research. History of Science 19. Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire: Science History Publications, 1981.

Marganne, M.-H. "Links between Egyptian and Greek Medicine." Forum 3/5 (1993): 35-43.

Marganne, M.-H. "La médecine dans l'Égypte romaine: les sources et les méthodes." In Augstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, ed. W. Hasse, 37.3. Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 1995.

Nacey, J. and Delahunt, B. "The Evolution and Development of the Urinary Catheter." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 63 (October 1993): 815-19.

Neugebauer, Otto. The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. New York: Harper, 1962. [QA22 N36 1962]

Neugebauer, Otto. A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy. Three volumes. Berlin and New York: Springer-Verlag, 1975. [QB16 N46 v. 1-3]

Nutton, V. "Galen and Egypt." In Galen und das hellenistische Erbe, Verhandlung des IV. internationale Galen-Symposiums, eds. J. Kollesch and D. Nickel, 11-31. Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Beiheft 32, Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag, 1993.

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Prioreschi, P. "Did the Hippocratic Physician Treat Hopeless Cases?" Gesnerus 49 (1992): 341-50.

Prioreschi, P. "Skull Trauma in Egyptian and Hippocratic Medicine." Gesnerus 50 (1993): 167-78.

Ratsch, C. Heilkrauter der Antike in Ägypten, Griechenland und Rom: Mythologie und Anwendung einst und heute. Diederichs Gelbe Reihe. Antike 115. München: E. Diederichs, 1995.

Reymond, E. A. E. From the Contents of the Libraries of the Suchos Temples in the Fayyum. Part 1, A Medical Book from Crocodilopolis: P. Vindob. D.6257. Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek 10. Vienna: Verlag Brüder Hollinek, 1976.

Saunders, J. B. and Saunders, C. M. The Transition from Ancient Egyptian to Greek Medicine. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1963.

Staden, H. von. Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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Stol, M. "Leprosy: New Light from Greek and Babylonian Sources." Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux 30 (1987-1988): 22-31.

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V. Near Eastern General Histories: Pre-Hellenistic

Bagnall, Roger S. Egypt in Late Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Bottero, J. Mesopotamia: Writings, Reasoning, and the Gods. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Bowman, Alan K. Egypt after the Pharaohs. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986.

Charpin, D. "The History of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Overview." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2, ed. Jack M. Sasson, 807-30. New York: Scribner, 1995. [DS57.C55 1995] [Reference]

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Gray, John. The Canaanites. New York: Praeger, 1965.

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Kitchen, Kenneth A. The Egyptian Nineteenth Dynasty. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1977.

Kitchen, Kenneth A. Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramesses II. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1982.

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Milano, C. "Ebla: A Third Millennium City-State in Ancient Syria." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. J. M. Sasson, 1219-1231. Volume 2. New York: Scribner, 1995 onward.

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V. Near Eastern Literature and Text Anthologies

Delia, Diana. "The Refreshing Water of Osiris." Journal of the American Research center in Egypt 29 (1992): 181-190.

Foster, K. P. and R. K. Ritner. "Texts, Storms and the Thera Eruption." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55 (1996): 1-14. [Periodicals Room]

Hallo, W., editor. The Context of Scripture: Canonical Compositions, Monumental Inscriptions, and Archival Documents from the Biblical World. Four volumes. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977-. Vol. 1, Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World. 1977. Vol. 2, Monumental Inscriptions from the Biblical World. 2000. [BS1180.C66 1996] [Reference]

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Posener, Georges. "Literature." Chapter in The Legacy of Egypt, edited by J. R. Harris, pp. 220-56. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. [DT61.H28 1971] [Reserve]

Pritchard, J. B., editor. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950, 1955. [Reference]

Simpson, W. K., editor. The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, and Poetry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. [PJ1943.S5]

Wiener, Malcolm H. and James P. Allen. "Separate Lives: The Ahmose Tempest Stela and the Theran Eruption." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 57 (1998): 1-28. [Periodicals Room]