Rachel Mairs
University of Reading, Department of Classics, Faculty Member
- Multilingualism, Code-Switching, Language and Ethnicity, Corpus Linguistics, South Asian Archaeology, Greek Epigraphy, and 24 moreClassical Archaeology, Graeco-Roman Egypt, Archaeology of ethnicity, Linguistics, Egyptology, Archaeology, Egyptian language, Multi- & Bilingualism & Biliteracy, Ancient Texts, Sociolinguistics, Classics, Bactria (Archaeology), Papyrology, Hellenistic Bactria, Ancient Sociolinguistics, Ai Khanum (Ai Khanoum) (Archaeology), Aï Khanoum, Archaeology of Central Asia, Arcjaeology of Afghanistan, Archaeology of Colonialism, Historical Archaeology, Hellenistic History, Seleucid Empire, and Postcolonial translation studiesedit
- Professor of Classics and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Reading.edit
The full original 2011 bibliographical survey on the archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East, with annual updates.
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Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt. Volume 1. Alexandria and the Delta (Nos. 1–206) A. K. Bowman, C. V. Crowther, S. Hornblower, R. Mairs and K. Savvopoulos eds. Oxford... more
Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt. Volume 1. Alexandria and the Delta (Nos. 1–206)
A. K. Bowman, C. V. Crowther, S. Hornblower, R. Mairs and K. Savvopoulos eds.
Oxford University Press 2021
A. K. Bowman, C. V. Crowther, S. Hornblower, R. Mairs and K. Savvopoulos eds.
Oxford University Press 2021
The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World
R. Mairs ed.
Routledge 2020
R. Mairs ed.
Routledge 2020
The Hermeneus to Dragoman blog accompanies this project: https://hermeneis.wordpress.com/
Research Interests: Ottoman History, Postcolonial Studies, Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL), Interpreting Studies, Eastern Travelers, and 6 moreTranslation and Interpretation, History of Language Teaching, European travellers and their depictions of the ancient and Islamic history of the Near East, Thomas Cook's 19th century competitors, History of Travel and Tourism, and Dragomans
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Bloomsbury Press, 2016. Preview available at http://Bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/Widget_Marketing.aspx?ID=KhartoumtoJerus&ISBN=9781474255028&sts=r
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The site of Ai Khanoum is, at present, the only major settlement of the Hellenistic Greek kingdom of Bactria to have been subject to extensive excavation. As such, it provides an invaluable, if problematic, source of information on this... more
The site of Ai Khanoum is, at present, the only major settlement of the Hellenistic Greek kingdom of Bactria to have been subject to extensive excavation. As such, it provides an invaluable, if problematic, source of information on this most remote and little-investigated of the ...
8 Egyptian 'Inscriptions' and Greek 'Graffiti'at El Kanais in the Egyptian Eastern Desert Rachel Mairs THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF GRAFFITI AT EL KANAIS The site of El Kanais lies around 55 km east of Edfu in the Wadi Mia,... more
8 Egyptian 'Inscriptions' and Greek 'Graffiti'at El Kanais in the Egyptian Eastern Desert Rachel Mairs THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF GRAFFITI AT EL KANAIS The site of El Kanais lies around 55 km east of Edfu in the Wadi Mia, along one of the major routes through the eastern ...
The long-awaited catalogue of the Demotic texts from the Brooklyn Museum (P.Brookl.Dem.) contains many items of interest, among them a curious bilingual Demotic-Greek ostrakon with a long list of personal names (No. 180). The Greek... more
The long-awaited catalogue of the Demotic texts from the Brooklyn Museum (P.Brookl.Dem.) contains many items of interest, among them a curious bilingual Demotic-Greek ostrakon with a long list of personal names (No. 180). The Greek portion of the text was published separately by Shelton in his catalogue of the same institution's Greek and Latin papyri (P.Brookl. 81). The question of whether and in what way the two languages of the ostrakon relate to each other has not been explicitly considered in either of the original publications, but the implication has been that they are separate. Holistic consideration of the Greek and the Demotic, however, makes it all but certain that they represent two portions of a single account, originating from a quarry somewhere in the neighborhood of Aswan and relating to a relatively brief quarrying or transportation project, taking place over just two days, but involving more than 60 laborers. I do not provide here a full transcription and trans...
Beyond Rosetta: Multilingual Inscriptions, the Antiquities Trade and the Decipherment of Egyptian Scripts R. Mairs In: The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt: Greek and Bilingual Inscriptions, edited by A. Bowman and C. Crowther Oxford... more
Beyond Rosetta: Multilingual Inscriptions, the Antiquities Trade and the Decipherment of Egyptian Scripts
R. Mairs
In: The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt: Greek and Bilingual Inscriptions, edited by A. Bowman and C. Crowther
Oxford University Press 2020
R. Mairs
In: The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt: Greek and Bilingual Inscriptions, edited by A. Bowman and C. Crowther
Oxford University Press 2020
Interpretes, Negotiatores and the Roman Army: Mobile Professionals and their Languages R. Mairs In: Migration, Mobility, and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by J. Clackson, P. James, K. McDonald, L.... more
Interpretes, Negotiatores and the Roman Army: Mobile Professionals and their Languages
R. Mairs
In: Migration, Mobility, and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by J. Clackson, P. James, K. McDonald, L. Tagliapietra and N. Zair
Cambridge University Press 2020
R. Mairs
In: Migration, Mobility, and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by J. Clackson, P. James, K. McDonald, L. Tagliapietra and N. Zair
Cambridge University Press 2020
The Hellenistic Far East in Historical Fiction: Ancient History, Modern Ideologies R. Mairs In: Seen from Oxyartes’ Rock. Central Asia Under and After Alexander. Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the Hellenistic Central Asia Research... more
The Hellenistic Far East in Historical Fiction: Ancient History, Modern Ideologies
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In: Seen from Oxyartes’ Rock. Central Asia Under and After Alexander. Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the Hellenistic Central Asia Research Network, edited by J. Havlík and L. Stančo
Charles University 2021
R. Mairs
In: Seen from Oxyartes’ Rock. Central Asia Under and After Alexander. Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the Hellenistic Central Asia Research Network, edited by J. Havlík and L. Stančo
Charles University 2021
Mairs, Rachel (2019) “The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey. Bactria, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, c. 300 BC – AD 100: Supplement 7,” Hellenistic Far East Bibliography Online www.bactria.org, published... more
Mairs, Rachel (2019) “The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey. Bactria, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, c. 300 BC – AD 100: Supplement 7,” Hellenistic Far East Bibliography Online www.bactria.org, published December 2019.
Egypt of the Hellenistic and Roman periods remains the most thoroughly documented multilingual society in the ancient world, because of the wealth of texts preserved on papyrus in Egyptian, Greek, Latin and other languages. This makes the... more
Egypt of the Hellenistic and Roman periods remains the most thoroughly documented multilingual society in the ancient world, because of the wealth of texts preserved on papyrus in Egyptian, Greek, Latin and other languages. This makes the scarcity of interpreters in the papyrological record all the more curious. This study reviews all instances in the papyri of individuals referred to as hermēneus in Greek, or references to the process of translation/interpreting. It discusses the terminological ambiguity of hermēneus, which can also mean a commercial mediator; the position of language mediators in legal cases in Egyp-tian, Greek and Latin; the role of gender in language mediation; and concludes with a survey of interpreting in Egyptian monastic communities in Late Antiquity.
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Mairs, Rachel (2018) “The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey. Bactria, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, c. 300 BC – AD 100: Supplement 6,” Hellenistic Far East Bibliography Online www.bactria.org, published... more
Mairs, Rachel (2018) “The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey. Bactria, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, c. 300 BC – AD 100: Supplement 6,” Hellenistic Far East Bibliography Online www.bactria.org, published December 2018.
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Mairs, Rachel (2018) "‘A Dragoman for Travellers’: Popular Arabic Instruction Books and their Authors in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt," in Nicola McLelland and Richard Smith (eds.), The History of Language Learning and Teaching: Across... more
Mairs, Rachel (2018) "‘A Dragoman for Travellers’: Popular Arabic Instruction Books and their Authors in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt," in Nicola McLelland and Richard Smith (eds.), The History of Language Learning and Teaching: Across Cultures, London: Routledge.
Mairs, Rachel (2018) "The Men Who Would Be Alexander: Alexander the Great and his Graeco-Bactrian Successors in the Raj," in Kenneth Moore (eds.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great, 545-563. Leiden: Brill.
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Mairs, Rachel (2018) "The Politics of Classical Translation," in Fruela Fernández and Jonathan Evans (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics, 401-409. London: Routledge.
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Mairs, Rachel (2018) "Aigyptia grammata: Linguistic and medical training in Graeco-Roman Egypt," in Nicola Reggiani and Francesca Bertonazzi (eds.), Parlare la medicina: fra lingue e culture, nello spazio e nel tempo, 3-11. Milano:... more
Mairs, Rachel (2018) "Aigyptia grammata: Linguistic and medical training in Graeco-Roman Egypt," in Nicola Reggiani and Francesca Bertonazzi (eds.), Parlare la medicina: fra lingue e culture, nello spazio e nel tempo, 3-11. Milano: Mondadori.
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Mairs, Rachel (2015) "Heroes and Philosophers? Greek Personal Names and their Bearers in Hellenistic Bactria," in Mariko N. Walter and James P. Ito-Adler (eds.), The Silk Road: Interwoven History. Volume 1: Long-Distance Trade, Culture, and Society, 71-100. Cambridge: Cambridge Institutes Press.more
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Mairs (2016) "New Discoveries of Documentary Texts From Bactria: Political and Cultural Change, Administrative Continuity," in T. Derda, A. Lajtar and J. Urbanik (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology, 2037-2061. Warsaw: Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement 28.more
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Forthcoming 2017 in The Classical Quarterly.
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Mairs, Rachel (2015) "Bactrian or Graeco-Bactrian Kingdom," in John MacKenzie (eds.), Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Empire, London: Wiley-Blackwell.
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To register for the conference, email r.mairs@reading.ac.uk Further information at:
https://hellenisticfareast.wordpress.com/about/colloquium-2016/
https://hellenisticfareast.wordpress.com/about/colloquium-2016/
Research Interests: Central Asian Studies, Central Asia (History), Bactria (Archaeology), Hellenistic Bactria, Archaeology of Central Asia, and 5 moreAi Khanum (Ai Khanoum) (Archaeology), Bactria, Hellenism, Indo-Greeks, Greco-Bactrian History, Archaeology of Central Asia in Parthian, Kushan and Sasanian times, and Indo Greek Culture and History
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Hellenistic Central Asia: Current Research, New Directions. Colloquium to be held at the University of Reading, United Kingdom, on 16 April 2016.
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Mairs, Rachel (2015) “The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey. Bactria, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, c. 300 BC – AD 100: Supplement 3,” Hellenistic Far East Bibliography Online www.bactria.org, published 30... more
Mairs, Rachel (2015) “The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey. Bactria, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, c. 300 BC – AD 100: Supplement 3,” Hellenistic Far East Bibliography Online www.bactria.org, published 30 August 2015.
Available online at: https://hellenisticfareast.wordpress.com/about/supplement-3-2015/
Available online at: https://hellenisticfareast.wordpress.com/about/supplement-3-2015/
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A short review of some recent publications. Mairs, Rachel (2014) “The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey. Bactria, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, c. 300 BC – AD 100: Supplement 2,” Hellenistic Far East... more
A short review of some recent publications.
Mairs, Rachel (2014) “The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey. Bactria, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, c. 300 BC – AD 100: Supplement 2,” Hellenistic Far East Bibliography Online www.bactria.org, published 29 September 2014.
Mairs, Rachel (2014) “The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey. Bactria, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, c. 300 BC – AD 100: Supplement 2,” Hellenistic Far East Bibliography Online www.bactria.org, published 29 September 2014.
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Mairs, Rachel (2016) "κατὰ τὸ δυνατόν: Demotic-Greek Translation in the Archive of the Theban Choachytes," in Jennifer Cromwell and Eitan Grossman (eds.), Beyond Free Variation: Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the Old Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period, 199-213. Oxford: Oxford University Press.more
Facebook discussion group for the University of Reading-based Hellenistic Central Asia Research Network
Call for papers: HoLLT.net Symposium on 'Women in the History of Language Learning and Teaching' at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2020), Groningen, The Netherlands, 9–14 August 2020. HoLLT.net (http://www.hollt.net) is a... more
Call for papers: HoLLT.net Symposium on 'Women in the History of Language Learning and Teaching' at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2020), Groningen, The Netherlands, 9–14 August 2020.
HoLLT.net (http://www.hollt.net) is a Research Network of AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée – International Association of Applied Linguistics) which was founded in 2015 to stimulate research into the history of language learning and teaching within applied linguistics internationally.
HoLLT.net (http://www.hollt.net) is a Research Network of AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée – International Association of Applied Linguistics) which was founded in 2015 to stimulate research into the history of language learning and teaching within applied linguistics internationally.
Orientalism, the Classics and Egypt (Third Meeting) The Reception of Ancient and Modern Egyptian Culture and Heritage, in Academia and Beyond مصر والاستشراق والدراسات الكلاسيكية (اللقاء الثالث) تلقي الثقافة والتراث المصري قديمًا وحديثًا... more
Orientalism, the Classics and Egypt (Third Meeting)
The Reception of Ancient and Modern Egyptian Culture and Heritage, in Academia and Beyond
مصر والاستشراق والدراسات الكلاسيكية (اللقاء الثالث)
تلقي الثقافة والتراث المصري قديمًا وحديثًا في المجتمع الأكاديمي وما سواه
Monday, 11 March 2019
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Main Entrance, Auditorium
https://www.bibalex.org/en/events/eventdetails?id=68349
The Reception of Ancient and Modern Egyptian Culture and Heritage, in Academia and Beyond
مصر والاستشراق والدراسات الكلاسيكية (اللقاء الثالث)
تلقي الثقافة والتراث المصري قديمًا وحديثًا في المجتمع الأكاديمي وما سواه
Monday, 11 March 2019
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Main Entrance, Auditorium
https://www.bibalex.org/en/events/eventdetails?id=68349
Registration now open for the History of Language Learning and Teaching conference at the University of Reading, 5-7 July 2018: https://store.rdg.ac/HoLLTnetInternationalMeeting2018.
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Alan Bowman, Charles Crowther, Simon Hornblower, Rachel Mairs, Kyriakos Savvopoulos: 'A Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions'. Poster presented at the XVth International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Languages – Culture of Writing –... more
Alan Bowman, Charles Crowther, Simon Hornblower, Rachel Mairs, Kyriakos Savvopoulos: 'A Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions'. Poster presented at the XVth International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Languages – Culture of Writing – Identities in Antiquity, Vienna 28th August – 1st September 2017
