The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids - Hardback - 2010

A collection of essays that aims to give a diachronic view of multilingual practices in Egypt from the arrival of the Greeks as a political force in the country with Alexander the Great, to the beginnings of Abbasid rule when Greek, and slowly also Coptic, receded from the documentary record.
Year of publication: 2010
Pagination: 280 pages, Includes 14 b&w illustrations
Format: Hardback
Editor: Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou