Transfigurations of Hellenism
Aspects of Late Antique Art in Egypt AD 250-700
Biographical note
László Török, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1992), is Research Professor at the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively on ancient Nubian history and Hellenistic and late antique art in Egypt, including The Kingdom of Kush (Leiden, 1997), The Image of the Ordered World in Ancient Nubian Art (Leiden, 2002).
Readership
All those interested in the history of late antique and early Byzantine art, the history of Egypt in the period between the 3rd and 8th centuries, and the transformations of Hellenistic culture in the Roman and late antique world.
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