Women And Society In Greek And Roman Egypt

Author : Jane Rowlandson,Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521588154

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Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt by Jane Rowlandson,Roger S. Bagnall Pdf

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 : Jane Rowlandson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OCLC:1391898064

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Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt by Jane Rowlandson Pdf

Author : ADA. NIFOSI
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367731827

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Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt by ADA. NIFOSI Pdf

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 : Roger Bagnall,Raffaella Cribiore
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472036226

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Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 by Roger Bagnall,Raffaella Cribiore Pdf

The private letters of ancient women in Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest

Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814322301

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Women in Hellenistic Egypt by Sarah B. Pomeroy Pdf

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 : Charles Freeman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199263646

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Egypt, Greece, and Rome by Charles Freeman Pdf

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Author : Ada Nifosi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351596152

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Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt by Ada Nifosi Pdf

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 : Barbara Watterson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445612669

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Women in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Watterson Pdf

Binge drinking and equal rights in Ancient Egypt... with her eye for the quirky; the only dry thing youll find here is her wit. THE DAILY MAIL (quote will appear on front cover of B-format).

Author : Mary Ann Eaverly
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472119110

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Tan Men/Pale Women by Mary Ann Eaverly Pdf

Investigating the history behind color as a method of gender differentiation in ancient Greek and Egyptian art

Author : Joyce Tyldesley
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141949819

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Daughters of Isis by Joyce Tyldesley Pdf

In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century. They could own and trade in property, work outside the home, marry foreigners and live alone without the protection of a male guardian. Some of them even rose to rule Egypt as ‘female kings’. Joyce Tyldesley’s vivid history of how women lived in ancient Egypt weaves a fascinating picture of daily life – marriage and the home, work and play, grooming and religion – viewed from a female perspective, in a work that is engaging, original and constantly surprising.

Author : Fiona McHardy,Eireann Marshall
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 0415309581

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Women's Influence on Classical Civilization by Fiona McHardy,Eireann Marshall Pdf

This book explores how women in antiquity influenced cultural spheres normailly thought of as male.

Author : Katelijn Vandorpe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118428405

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A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt by Katelijn Vandorpe Pdf

An authoritative and multidisciplinary Companion to Egypt during the Greco‐Roman and Late Antique period With contributions from noted authorities in the field, A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt offers a comprehensive resource that covers almost 1000 years of Egyptian history, starting with the liberation of Egypt from Persian rule by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and ending in AD 642, when Arab rule started in the Nile country. The Companion takes a largely sociological perspective and includes a section on life portraits at the end of each part. The theme of identity in a multicultural environment and a chapter on the quality of life of Egypt's inhabitants clearly illustrate this objective. The authors put the emphasis on the changes that occurred in the Greco-Roman and Late Antique periods, as illustrated by such topics as: Traditional religious life challenged; Governing a country with a past: between tradition and innovation; and Creative minds in theory and praxis. This important resource: Discusses how Egypt became part of a globalizing world in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times Explores notable innovations by the Ptolemies and Romans Puts the focus on the longue durée development Offers a thematic and multidisciplinary approach to the subject, bringing together scholars of different disciplines Contains life portraits in which various aspects and themes of people’s daily life in Egypt are discussed Written for academics and students of the Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt period, this Companion offers a guide that is useful for students in the areas of Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and New Testament studies.

Author : Jean Bingen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520251415

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Hellenistic Egypt by Jean Bingen Pdf

"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 : André Lardinois,Laura McClure
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691187594

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Making Silence Speak by André Lardinois,Laura McClure Pdf

This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho. Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, André Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.

Author : Raffaella Cribiore
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400844418

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Gymnastics of the Mind by Raffaella Cribiore Pdf

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.