A COMPANION TO ANCIENT EGYPT

VOLUME I

Edited by Alan B. Lloyd

A COMPANION TO ANCIENT EGYPT

VOLUME I

BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD

This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises between twenty-five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers.

Ancient History Published

A Companion to the Roman Army Edited by Paul Erdkamp a Companion to the Roman Republic Edited by Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein-Marx

A Companion to the Roman Empire Edited by David S. Potter

A Companion to the Classical Greek World Edited by Konrad H. Kinzl

A Companion to the Ancient Near East Edited by Daniel C. Snell

A Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Andrew Erskine

A Companion to Late Antiquity Edited by Philip Rousseau

A Companion to Ancient History

Edited by Andrew Erskine

A Companion to Archaic Greece

Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Hans van Wees

A Companion to Julius Caesar

Edited by Miriam Griffin

A Companion to Byzantium

Edited by Liz James

A Companion to Ancient Egypt

Edited by Alan B. Lloyd

In preparation

A Companion to Ancient Macedonia Edited by Ian Worthington and Joseph Roisman

A Companion to the Punic Wars Edited by Dexter Hoyos

A Companion to Sparta Edited by Anton Powell

Literatureand Culture Published

A Companion to Classical Receptions

Edited by Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray

A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography Edited by John Marincola

A Companion to Catullus Edited by Marilyn B. Skinner a Companion to Roman Religion Edited by Jorg RUpke a Companion to Greek Religion Edited by Daniel Ogden

A Companion to the Classical Tradition Edited by Craig W. Kallendorf

A Companion to Roman Rhetoric Edited by William Dominik and Jon Hall

A Companion to Greek Rhetoric Edited by Ian Worthington

A Companion to Ancient Epic Edited by John Miles Foley

A Companion to Greek Tragedy Edited by Justina Gregory

A Companion to Latin Literature

Edited by Stephen Harrison

A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought

Edited by Ryan K. Balot a Companion to Ovid Edited by Peter E. Knox

A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language Edited by Egbert Bakker

A Companion to Hellenistic Literature

Edited by Martine Cuypers and James J. Clauss

A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition Edited by Joseph Farrell and Michael C. J. Putnam

A Companion to Horace Edited by Gregson Davis

In preparation

A Companion to the Latin Language Edited by James Clackson a Companion to Classical Mythology Edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone a Companion to Sophocles Edited by Kirk Ormand

A Companion to Aeschylus Edited by Peter Burian

A Companion to Greek Art

Edited by Tyler Jo Smith and Dimitris Plantzos

A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman World

Edited by Beryl Rawson

A Companion to Tacitus Edited by Victoria Pag'an

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

Edited by Daniel Potts