Member: shikari

CollectionsClassics (527), Orientalistik (242), Linguistics and Language (95), Academic and Historiographical (18), General library (83), All collections (899)

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Tagsclassics (405), VG (170), greek (115), late antiquity (113), NF (105), ancient history (93), --/VG (90), NF/NF (66), As New (59), greek literature (58) — see all tags

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GroupsAncient History, Arab, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Byzantinistik, Syriac: ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, Wir Philologen

Favorite authorsAdonis, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lucian, Andrew Marvell, Theodor Nöldeke, Anthony Powell (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAlbion Beatnik, Blackwell Oxford, Daunt Books, The Classics Bookshop

Favorite librariesBibliotheca Alexandrina, Oriental Institute Library OIL, Oxford University, Sackler Library, Oxford University, Wellcome Library

About meOrientalist and Late Antiquarian. My MA dissertation was on Procopius' Sasanian ethnography and its echoes of Herodotus. Current work is on pre-Islamic Arabia.

About my libraryA mix of Classics, Orientalistik (Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Hebrew and Armenian with some Turkic and Indian materials), Language materials and general literary works. There is also a reasonable collection of books on Central Asian history.

The Classics materials are mostly related to Late Antique historiography, rhetoric and Greek drama (with a good uncatalogued section on satyr drama).

The Arabic section has a number of works on Nabati poetry, a particular interest of mine. These, like most of the library, are still in storage, however, and are not yet catalogued.

Real nameJohn

LocationOxford, England

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Member sinceMay 5, 2009