Women In Hellenistic Egypt
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Author | : Sarah B. Pomeroy |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780814322307 |
Using evidence from a wide array of sources, Sarah Pomeroy discusses women ranging from queens such as Arsinoë II and Cleopatra VII to Jewish slaves working on a Greek estate.
Author | : Sarah B. Pomeroy |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
After its conquest in 331 B.C., Egypt became the center of the Hellenistic world, attracting men and women from other parts of the Mediterranean area. In this cosmopolitan and mobile society, Greek women of the ruling class had unprecedented opportunities and were able to employ some of the legal freedoms enjoyed by their Egyptian counterparts.Using evidence from a wide array of sources including literature, papyri, inscriptions, coins, and terra-cotta figurines, Sarah Pomeroy discusses women ranging from queens such as Arsinoë II and Cleopatra VII to Jewish slaves working on a Greek estate. -- from Google books
Author | : Roger Bagnall |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2015-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 047203622X |
The private letters of ancient women in Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest
Author | : Grace Harriet Macurdy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jean Bingen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780520251410 |
"The most comprehensive account of the economy, society, and culture of Hellenistic Egypt available in English."--J.G. Manning, author of Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Structure of Land Tenure
Author | : Elizabeth Donnelly Carney |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2013-03-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195365518 |
The life of Arsinoë II (c. 316-c.270 BCE), daughter of the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, is characterized by dynastic intrigue. This book provides the first accessible biography of this fascinating queen.
Author | : Jane Rowlandson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1998-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521588157 |
The period of Egyptian history from its rule by the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty to its incorporation into the Roman and Byzantine empires has left a wealth of evidence for the lives of ordinary men and women. Texts (often personal letters) written on papyrus and other materials, objects of everyday use and funerary portraits have survived from the Graeco-Roman period of Egyptian history. But much of this unparalleled resource has been available only to specialists because of the difficulty of reading and interpreting it. Now eleven leading scholars in this field have collaborated to make available to students and other non-specialists a selection of over three hundred texts translated from Greek and Egyptian, as well as more than fifty illustrations, documenting the lives of women within this society, from queens to priestesses, property-owners to slave-girls, from birth through motherhood to death. Each item is accompanied by full explanatory notes and bibliographical references.
Author | : Sarah B. Pomeroy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Family |
ISBN | : 9781383004656 |
This account of the Greek family takes account of a mass of literary, inscriptional, archaeological, anthropological, and art-historical evidence, some of which has only been made recently available, to provide a source of reference for this key aspect of Greek social history.
Author | : ADA. NIFOSI |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2020-12-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780367731823 |
How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women's bodies and how did it acknowledge women's reproductive functions? Detailing women's lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious taboos of menstruation and birth rituals. It investigates medical, legal and religious aspects of women's reproduction, using both historical and archaeological sources, and shows how the social status of women and new-born children changed from the Dynastic to the Greco-Roman period. Through a comparative and interdisciplinary study of the historical sources, papyri, artefacts and archaeological evidence, Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt shows how Greek, Roman, Jewish and Near Eastern cultures impacted on the social perception of female puberty, childbirth and menstruation in Greco-Roman Egypt from the 3rd century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D.
Author | : Raffaella Cribiore |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691122520 |
This book is at once a thorough study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. It describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and what the curriculum comprised. Raffaella Cribiore draws on over 400 papyri, ostraca (sherds of pottery or slices of limestone), and tablets that feature everything from exercises involving letters of the alphabet through rhetorical compositions that represented the work of advanced students. The exceptional wealth of surviving source material renders Egypt an ideal space of reference. The book makes excursions beyond Egypt as well, particularly in the Greek East, by examining the letters of the Antiochene Libanius that are concerned with education. The first part explores the conditions for teaching and learning, and the roles of teachers, parents, and students in education; the second vividly describes the progression from elementary to advanced education. Cribiore examines not only school exercises but also books and commentaries employed in education--an uncharted area of research. This allows the most comprehensive evaluation thus far of the three main stages of a liberal education, from the elementary teacher to the grammarian to the rhetorician. Also addressed, in unprecedented detail, are female education and the role of families in education. Gymnastics of the Mind will be an indispensable resource to students and scholars of the ancient world and of the history of education.