Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800

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University 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.
 

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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
Bibliography
407
Index
413

Dating Handwriting
54
Language
56

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