Women's letters from ancient Egypt
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Contributions
- Cribiore, Raffaella. - Contributor
- Ahtaridis, Evie. - Contributor
Publication
2006 - University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Language
English
Word Count
105,250 words, Guess
Page Count
421 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3430642M
- ISBN-139780472115068
- ISBN-100472115065
- OCLC Control Number62282487
- OCLC Control Numberwomenslettersfro800bagn
and 2 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2005055947
- Goodreads794310
Classifications
- DDC932/.02
- LCCHQ1137.E3 B34 2006
Description
"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 B.C.-A.D. 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."--Jacket.
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- Sources.
- Correspondence.
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