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Authors: Jane Rowlandson
ISBN-13: 9780521588157, ISBN-10: 0521588154
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 1998
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Jane Rowlandson

Book Synopsis

This book makes available to students and other nonspecialists a varied collection of over three hundred translated texts and more than fifty illustrations relating to women's lives in Greek and Roman Egypt. These are accompanied by an introductory chapter and full explanatory notes. It makes accessible to all those interested in social history, and in particular the lives of women, an extraordinarily rich body of material from the ancient world.

	List of maps
	List of figures
	List of plates
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
	Notes for the reader
	Glossary
1	Introduction	1
2	Royalty and religion
I	Ptolemaic Queens	25
II	Roman Imperial women	41
III	Goddesses	46
IV	Priestesses	55
V	Religion and the Individual	62
VI	Christianity	70
3	Family matters
I	Perspectives on the family	87
II	Archives
A	The archive of Zenon, Philadelphia	95
B	The Serapeum archive, Memphis	98
C	The archive of Dryton and Apollonia alias Senmonthis, Pathyris	105
D	The archive of Tryphon, Oxyrhynchos	112
E	The archive of Apollonios the strategos and Aline	118
F	The archive of Kronion, farmer of Tebtynis, and his family	125
G	The archive of Taesion/Taesis	133
H	The archive of Gaius Julius Niger	139
J	The archive of Satornila and her sons	143
K	The archive of Paniskos and Ploutogenia, Philadelphia	147
L	The archive of Flavius Dioskoros, Aphrodite	151
4	Status and law
I	The Egyptian background	156
II	Greek and Egyptian in a colonial society	162
III	Roman transformations	174
IV	Freedom and responsibility in developed Roman society	195
V	Continuity and change in the Coptic texts	212
5	Economic activities
I	Women and agricultural land	218
II	Women in the non-agricultural economy	245
6	Being female
I	Birth, infancy and childhood	282
II	Education	299
III	Marriage and married life	312
IV	Sickness, death and burial	335
V	Weaklings or viragos? The ambiguities of womanhood	354
	List and concordance of texts	369
	Bibliography	382
	Index	398

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