Acknowledgments
I am grateful to several friends who read earlier drafts of
the book— Paul Binski, Colin Burrow, and Ruth Scurr, who read it in full, and
Paul Foote and Cally Hammond, who read it in part. Jeremy Dimmick gave very
useful directions about reading at the very beginning of the project. Ed
Brambley took care of the illustrations.
Oxford University Press were heroically patient during the
lapse of time between their commissioning the book and myfinally getting down to
work on it. I am grateful to my original commissioning editor for that; to my
present editor, Cynthia Read,for extremely helpful comments; and to the reader
to whom the manuscript was sent for constructive, indeed
invaluable,suggestions. My very warm thanks go to my magnificent copyeditor,
Mary Sutherland, whose intelligence and alert attention to detail, combined with
an unerring sense of the book as a whole,made her a pleasure to work with.
Thank-you as well to Joellyn Ausanka, who ably shepherded the book through the
production process.
My greatest debt—obvious and here warmly acknowledged— is to
those many writers whose fundamental work opened pathsinto areas hitherto
unknown to me (which includes just about allthe writers cited on ancient Egypt)
and intimated a structure forthe book, but especially Alan Bernstein, S. G. F.
Brandon, Piero Camporesi, and Colleen McDannell and Bernard Lang.
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