The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids

by Arietta Papaconstantinou (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $158.76

  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.