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Author : Roger Bagnall,Raffaella Cribiore
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472036226
The private letters of ancient women in Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest
Author : Roger S. Bagnall,Raffaella Cribiore
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0472115065
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. Written by women from various walks of life, they shed light on critical social aspects of life in Egypt after the pharaohs. Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore collect the best preserved letters in translation and set them in their paleographic, linguistic, social, and economic contexts. The authors' analysis suggests that 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. They present theoretical discussions about the handwriting and language of the letters, the education and culture of the writers' everyday concerns and occupations. Numerous illustrations display the varieties of handwriting.
Author : Raffaella Cribiore
Publisher : ACLS History E-Book Project
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1597405817
Author : Ida Ostenberg,Simon Malmberg,Jonas Bjørnebye
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472530714
The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the ancient city of Rome, exploring the interaction between people and monuments. Representing a novel approach to the Roman cityscape and culture, and reflecting the shift away from the traditional study of single monuments into broader analyses of context and space, the volume reveals both how movement adds to our understanding of ancient society, and how the movement of people and goods shaped urban development. Covering a wide range of people, places, sources, and times, the volume includes a survey of Republican, imperial, and late antique movement, triumphal processions of conquering generals, seditious, violent movement of riots and rebellion, religious processions and rituals and the everyday movements of individual strolls or household errands. By way of its longue durée, dense location and the variety of available sources, the city of ancient Rome offers a unique possibility to study movements as expressions of power, ritual, writing, communication, mentalities, trade, and – also as a result of a massed populace – violent outbreaks and attempts to keep order. The emerging picture is of a bustling, lively society, where cityscape and movements are closely interactive and entwined.
Author : Raffaella Cribiore
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691171357
This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent of pagan religion and a friend of the emperor Julian, but also taught leaders of the early Christian church like St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil the Great. Raffaella Cribiore examines Libanius's training and personality, showing him to be a vibrant educator, though somewhat gloomy and anxious by nature. She traces how he cultivated a wide network of friends and former pupils and courted powerful officials to recruit top students. Cribiore describes his school in Antioch--how students applied, how they were evaluated and trained, and how Libanius reported progress to their families. She details the professional opportunities that a thorough training in rhetoric opened up for young men of the day. Also included here are translations of 200 of Libanius's most important letters on education, almost none of which have appeared in English before. Cribiore casts into striking relief the importance of rhetoric in late antiquity and its influence not only on pagan intellectuals but also on prominent Christian figures. She gives a balanced view of Libanius and his circle against the far-flung panorama of the Greek East.
Author : Cassandra Borges,C. Michael Sampson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472118076
Three new fragments from amongst the oldest Greek papyri
Author : Gloria Rosati,M. Cristina Guidotti
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784916015
Presents proceedings from the eleventh International Congress of Egyptologists which took place at the Florence Egyptian Museum (Museo Egizio Firenze), Italy from 23- 30 August 2015.
Author : Andreas Kaplony,Daniel Potthast,Cornelia Römer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004282186
This volume collects papers given at the Vienna conference (2009) of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP), including editions of previously unpublished Coptic and Arabic documents, and historical and linguistic studies based on documentary evidence from Early Islamic Egypt.
Author : Todd Hickey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472118120
The economic practices and theory of the Roman Empire, as seen through the lens of the estate of the Flavii Apiones
Author : Jane Rowlandson,Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521588154
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 : Marsha Hill,Deborah Schorsch,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Metal sculpture
ISBN : 9781588392312
Throughout their long history, the ancient Egyptians crafted exquisite statues of bronze, copper, silver and gold as offerings to their gods and for use in temples and shrines. This title focuses on the art and significance of Egyptian metal statuary, presenting insights and up-to-date information on this precious work.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture, Egyptian
ISBN : 9781588391735
A fascinating look at the artistically productive reign of Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh in ancient Egypt
Author : Roberto B. Gozzoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 095502563X
Royal inscriptions, Herodotus and Manetho have been fundemental in order to reconstruct the chronology and history of ancient Egypt since Champillon's times. Without denying the righteousness of the approach, historical and pseudo-historical material are here analysed as historical documents per se, completely disregarding their value for the histoire événementielle . Genre and format of royal inscriptions become important in order to establish the power of the tradition, as the entire group of historical sources mentioned embody hopes, fears, as well as social and cultural conflicts existing in Egyptian society at the times they were written.
Author : Amy Richlin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472035922
Examining the perishable nature of the history of women’s lives
Author : Margaret Bunson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438109978
An A-Z reference providing concise and accessible information on Ancient Egypt from its predynastic cultures to the suicide of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony in the face of the Roman conquest. Annotation. Bunson (an author of reference works) has revised her 1991 reference (which is appropriate for high school and public libraries) to span Egypt's history from the predynastic period to the Roman conquest. The encyclopedia includes entries for people, sites, events, and concepts as well as featuring lengthy entries or inset boxes on major topics such as deities, animals, and the military. A plan and photograph are included for each of the major architectural sites.