Greco-Roman world

Abstract

"Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Classical World. By Michael Avi- Yonah and Israel Shatzman. New York: Harper and Row, 1975, 510 pp., $20.00. The late Michael Avi-Yonah (d. 1974) was the leading Israeli scholar of the classical and Byzantine periods. He had directed a number of excavations in Israel and had served as the editor of IEJ and of the Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. He had planned the Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Classical World, but its completion is largely the work of Professor Israel Shatzman of the Hebrew University, who is primarily a scholar of the Roman period."