Edwyn Robert Bevan, The House of Ptolemy — Preface (1927)
“ Ulrich Wilcken, one of the great scholars whom Germany has given the world in this generation, speaks with an authority which few other men possess, in anything which has to be with papyrological studies. ”
Edwyn Robert Bevan, The House of Ptolemy — Preface (1927)
“ One may only notice that there is a very active school of papyrological studies in Italy with which the names of many young scholars of distinction are connected, whilst Italy has only just lost the veteran Giacomo Lumbroso, whose book, Recherches sur l'économie politique de l'Egypte sous les Lagides, was published as long ago as 1870; that Russia is represented by a scholar of very great eminence, Michael Rostovtzeff, an exile from his country, because for men of this kind Bolshevik Russia offers no possible home ”
Edwyn Robert Bevan, The House of Ptolemy — Preface (1927)
“ Preface Since the issue of Mahaffy's History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty twelve years ago, research and study have gone steadily on, and new material (papyri and inscriptions) have been brought to light. Mahaffy's volume no longer in 1927 suffices to inform an English reader what is known, or believed, about Ptolemaic Egypt by those who speak with authority in this field of studies. ”
