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Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800

Bagnall, Roger S., author, Cribiore, Raffaella, author, Ahtaridis, Evie, contributor

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\"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.

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Subject: To 1500 / Geschichte 300 v. Chr.-800. / Före 1500 / Women Egypt History To 1500 Sources. / Women Egypt Correspondence. / Letter writing, Egyptian History To 1500. / Letter writing, Egyptian. / Women. / Frau. / Brief. / Brev skrivande Egypten antiken brev. / Kvinnorollen. / Levnadsförhållanden. / Letters writing Egypt classical antiquity letters. / Female role. / Living conditions. / Kvinnor historia. / Korrespondens. / Brevskrivning. / Egypt. / Ägypten / Ägypten (Altertum)
• ISBN: 9780472036226, 047203622X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HQ1137.E3 B34 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE