Ancient
Alexandria
Check out our new (2020) website with over 100 translations of Alexandrian Documents from the Reign of Augustus: https://classics.uc.edu/users/vanminnen/ancient_alexandria/index.html
Original documents from
Ancient Alexandria! Wish it were true? It is true.
On
this web site we at UC present a work in progress:
a translation with introduction and notes of all
documents from ancient Alexandria that survive on
papyrus. There are hundreds such documents – even
thousands. Just imagine a stack of such texts from
ancient Rome or Athens – the whole world would be
all over it! A similar project was undertaken for
the documents found on the island of Elephantine
in southernmost Egypt (B. Porten ed., The
Elephantine Papyri in English, 1996), so why not
for Alexandria on the other, Mediterranean, end?
Recent archaeological work in
Alexandria and its harbor have created a lot of
interest among those who cannot be expected to
know about, let alone read, original Greek
documents. They will want to bookmark this page.
Bibliographies:
Our general
bibliography on ancient Alexandria
Bibliography
on literature and sciences in Alexandria
Websites of two archaeological
teams working in Alexandria and its harbor:
The team headed by
J.-Y. Empereur
Other useful websites about
ancient Alexandria:
From a modern
Egyptian perspective
From a
modern Greek perspective
Send your comments to ancient.history@classics.uc.edu.
© Peter van Minnen 2007
Work in progress!
A
translation of all documents from ancient
Alexandria
that
survive
on papyrus.
Original Documents
from
Ancient Alexandria