Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800University of Michigan Press, 26 ביוני 2006 - 421 עמודים When historians study the women of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquity, they are generally dependent on ancient literature written by men. But women themselves did write and dictate. And only in their own private letters can we discover unmediated expression of their authentic experiences. More than three hundred letters written in Greek and Egyptian by women in Egypt in the millennium from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest survive on papyrus and pottery. These letters were written by women from various walks of life and shed light on critical social aspects of life in Egypt after the pharaohs. Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore collect the best preserved of these letters in translation and set them in their paleographic, linguistic, social, and economic contexts. As a result,Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800, provides a sense that these women's habits, interests, and means of expression were a product more of their social and economic standing than of specifically gender-related concerns or behavior. Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800, takes the reader through theoretical discussions about the handwriting and language of the letters, the education and culture of the writers, and the writers' everyday concerns and occupations, as well as comparing these letters to similar letters from later historical periods. For each letter, discussion focuses on handwriting, language, and content; in addition, numerous illustrations help the reader to see the variety of handwritings. Most of this material has never been available in English translation before, and the letters have never previously been considered as a single body of material. Roger S. Bagnallis Professor of Classics and History, Columbia University. Raffaella Cribioreis Associate Curator of Papyri and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Classics Department, Columbia University. |
תוכן
CHAPTER | 1 |
Which Women? | 8 |
CHAPTER | 9 |
Changes in Letter Writing from | 15 |
Archives Excavations | 22 |
CHAPTER 5 | 33 |
CHAPTER 6 | 41 |
A Womans Hand | 48 |
The | 65 |
Money | 71 |
CHAPTER | 84 |
Money | 90 |
A Archives and Dossiers | 97 |
B Themes and Topics | 258 |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
ADDRESS ON BACK ADDRESSEE Unknown LOCATION Alexandria Aline Apollonios archive Arsinoite nome Asklepiades BIBLIOGRAPHY brother century AD LOCATION concerning Copt Coptic letters corrections Cribiore cursive daughter dictated Didyme Diogenis Dionysia dossier drachmas Egypt Egyptian Eudaimonis everything I pray Farewell father fluent FOUND Oxyrhynchos Greek FOUND Unknown Greek give Greek letters greetings handwriting Herennia husband Isidora language letter hand letters written Library ligatures LOCATION FOUND Oxyrhynchos LOCATION FOUND Unknown LOCATION OF ADDRESSEE LOCATION OF OBJECT LOCATION WRITTEN Unknown lord mother NOTE ostraca ostracon Oxyrhynchos P.Brem P.Giss P.Lond P.Mich P.Oxy Papyrology papyrus Papyrussammlung Paston penned phonetic spellings probably professional Ptolemaic received relatively Roman Egypt Roman period Sackler Library salutations Sarapias Sarapion Sarapis scribe Second century sender sent sister Staatliche Museen strategos style Tasoucharion Thermouthas Unknown LOCATION FOUND woman women women's letters writing WRITTEN Unknown LOCATION wrote Zenon