The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile
Studies in Waterborne Power

Editors

Kostas Buraselis, University of Athens, Greece
Kostas Buraselis is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Athens. He is the author of several books, including most recently Kos between Hellenism and Rome (2000), and is also editor/co-editor of various collected volumes and author of numerous articles and reviews, especially on topics in Hellenistic and Roman history.

Mary Stefanou, University of Athens, Greece
Mary Stefanou is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Athens and Professor of Philology in Secondary Education in Greece. She has acted as a co-editor to various collected volumes and has translated books on ancient history into Greek.

Dorothy J. Thompson, Girton College, Cambridge
Dorothy J. Thompson was until her retirement Newton Trust Affiliated Lecturer in Ancient History in the Faculty of Classics. She remains a Fellow of Girton College and is still actively involved in lecturing and research. She has taken part in archaeological excavations in Greece, Turkey and Egypt, and is a Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary President of the International Association of Papyrologists. Her books include Memphis under the Ptolemies (1988, awarded the James H. Breasted Prize by the American Historical Association, 2nd edition, 2012) and Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt (2006, with Willy Clarysse).

Contributors

Christian Habicht, Kostas Buraselis, Dorothy J. Thompson, Andrew Meadows, Hans Hauben, Vincent Gabrielsen, Andrew Erskine, Mary Stefanou, Paul McKechnie, Olga Palagia, Lucia Criscuolo, Thomas Kruse, Francesco Prontera, Klaus Geus