Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook

ISBN-13: 9780521588157 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 432 str.

Jane Rowlandson

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… bridges the linguistic differences between the disciplines of Egyptology and papyrology and makes the rich textual sources for Greek and Roman Egypt available to a wider audience of scholars and students alike … valuable … a concise, helpful overview of technicalities … Rowlandson and her collaborators are to be commended for this sound and readable volume, which will repay the reader who consults it for specific material, reads it straight through, or dips into it at will for a taste of Greek and Roman Egypt.' Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Royalty and religion; 3. Family matters; 4. Status and law; 5. Economic activities; 6. Being female.