Race and Ethnicity Oral Report Topics Spring 2010

Women in Egyptian society (2-22)

-see Gay Robins HQ1137.E3 R63 1993 and/or Barbara Watterson HQ1137.E3 W37 1991

http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits/WomenandGender/title.html

Development of an Egyptian town (2-22)

Perspectives on Panopolis : an Egyptian town from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest / edited by A. Egberts, B.P. Muhs, J. van der Vliet.

Oversize (*) -- PA3301 .P34 v.31

William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (esp. his presentation of the exotic Egyptian) Read the play from any source, esp. good annotated script (3-1 Chelsea Goodman)

+ a chapter and article on Egypt as presented in the play

Chapter in PR129.E3 A73 2001 Old worlds : Egypt, Southwest Asia, India, and Russia in early modern English writing / John Michael Archer.

Article ‘Rome and Egypt in Antony and Cleopatra and in criticism of the play’ in Antony and Cleopatra : new critical essays / edited by Sara Munson Deats. PR2802 .A837 2005 --

Graffiti of Pharaonic Egypt – Alexander J. Peden PJ1521.P43 2001 (3-1 Mellisa Roundy)

Manetho, Egyptian Historian in a Greek world (Simone Scott 3-3)

Berossos and Manetho, introduced and translated : native traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt / Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John M. Wickersham. Main Library Stacks -- DS73.2 .V47 1996

Hieroglyphics, Egyptian Demotic and the Rosetta Stone (3-3 Lisa Ehm)

PJ1531.R5 S6513 2002 The Rosetta stone : [the story of the decoding of hieroglyphics] / Robert Solé & Dominique Valbelle ; translated by Steven Rendall.

PJ1097 .C65 1998 How to read Egyptian hieroglyphs : a step-by-step guide to teach yourself / Mark Collier and Bill Manley ; new illustrations by Richard Parkinson.

M.K. Asante, Afrocentricity and Egypt/Kemet (3-8 Luke Unneland)

DT70 .A83 2002 Culture and customs of Egypt / Molefi Kete Asante.

+ his article ‘Contesting Ancient African History: Assumptions and Claims of Eurocentric Historians’ http://www.asante.net/articles/contesting-Kemet.html

Ancient Egypt in Africa / edited by David O’Connor and Andrew Reid. (Tresa Mathew 3-10)

Afrocentrism and historical models for the foundation of ancient Greece / Martin Bernal -- Attributing colour to the ancient Egyptians: reflections on Black Athena / John A. North

Landscapes of knowledge, idioms of power: the African foundations of ancient Egyptian civilization reconsidered / David Wengrow

Ancient Egypt in Africa / edited by David O’Connor and Andrew Reid. (Tresa Mathew 3-10)

Ancient Egypt in the Sudanese Middle Nile: a case of mistaken identity? / David N. Edwards -- On the priestly origin of the Napatan kings: the adaptation, demise and resurrection of ideas in writing Nubian history / Robert G. Morkot -- Pharaonic or Sudanic? Models for Meroitic society and change / Dorian Q. Fuller.

Nubia/Kush (3-8 John Slavik)

DT159.6.N83 S55 1996 Ancient Nubia / P.L. Shinnie.

DT159.6.N83 W45 1996 The kingdom of Kush : the Napatan and Meroitic empires / Derek A. Welsby.

The African Kingdom of Axum (3-15 Heather Allen)

Steven Burstein Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum

DT159.6.N83 A53 1997

Airs, Waters, Places a Greek medical theory of diversity in skin color and genetic traits (3-17 Marianna Zajac)

Found at Science Library in Chadwick Mecdical Works of Hippocrates R 126 H54 1950

Or Hippocrates R 126 H54 1957 v.1 translated by WHS Jones

+ Vitruvius On Architecture Book 6 chapter 1 Fine Arts Collection Stacks -- NA2515 .V61352 2003 Vitruvius on architecture / Thomas Gordon Smith.

Aethiopica or Ethiopian Story – an ancient novel about adventures in Africa and around the Mediterranean – concentrate on observations of anything from Africa (3-15 Catherine Dolber)

PA3998.H2 E5 1957

Title: An Ethiopian romance; Translated with an introd. by Moses Hadas.

Philo of Alexandria On his Embassy to Gaius (3-22 Katie Walter)

PA4268.A2 1929 v.10

Josephus' Against Apion (4-7 Danny Assaban)

DS116 .J7 2000 v.10 Against Apion / translation and commentary by John M.G. Barclay.

Jewish Inscriptions in Egypt (4-12 Emily Volpe)

PJ5034.8.E3 H67 1992 Jewish inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt : with an index of the Jewish inscriptions of Egypt and Cyrenaica / [edited by] William Horbury and David Noy.

Ancient Libya/Cyrenaica (4-14)

Choose 3 articles in here to summarize contents

Oversize (*) -- DT238.C8 C87 1985 Cyrenaica in antiquity/ edited by Graeme Barker, John Lloyd and Joyce Reynolds.

Dido and Aeneas in Virgil’s Aeneid Books 1, 4 and a bit of 6 (4-19 Santino DeAngelo)

Just find any good modern translation of Virgil/Vergil’s Aeneid

+ my article ‘Fides Aeneia: Transference of Punic Stereotypes in the Aeneid’ in Classical Journal vol 94 (1999): 255-283

Susan Raven Rome in Africa (4-21 Sam Graham)

DT 198.R38 1992 ( I have this book out right now – ask me and we’ll work out a loan period) esp. on the post-Punic period

Oversize (*) -- DT239.L4 M3 Cities in the sand, Leptis Magna and Sabratha in Roman Africa. Photos. by Alfred W. Cook. (4-21)

Tacitus Germania PA6707.G4 R58 1999 (4-26 Mike Riconda)

Germania / Tacitus ; translated with introduction and commentary by J.B. Rives.

Emperor Septimius Severus (4-26)

DG300 .B57 1989 Septimius Severus : the African emperor / Anthony R. Birley.

St Augustine (4-28 Edwin Kabigting)

BR65.A9 B63 1986 St Augustine of Hippo : life and controversies / Gerald Bonner.

BR1720.A9 S64 Augustine, his life and thought / Warren Thomas Smith.

Augustus’ plan for the rule of Mauretania through children of famous rivals Juba I of Numidia and Cleopatra of Egypt (4-28)

DT198 .R65 2003

The world of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene : royal scholarship on Rome’s African frontier / Duane W. Roller.

Sallust The Jugurthine War on Rome’s war with Numidia (5-3 Henry White)

The Vandals (I have the books on this subject but have suggestions for 3 articles that you should read in addition to finding some general info elsewhere –5-5)