Women in Hellenistic Egypt
Title | Women in Hellenistic Egypt PDF eBook |
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 Arsinoƫ II and Cleopatra VII to Jewish slaves working on a Greek estate.
Hellenistic Egypt
Title | Hellenistic Egypt PDF eBook |
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
Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800
Title | Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 PDF eBook |
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
Hellenistic Queens
Title | Hellenistic Queens PDF eBook |
Author | Grace Harriet Macurdy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt
Title | Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt PDF eBook |
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.
Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt
Title | Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Dee L. Clayman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0195370899 |
A sophisticated portrait of a formidable, yet relatively unknown, queen in the 200-year power struggle that followed the death of Alexander the Great.
Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon
Title | Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Donnelly Carney |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 2013-03-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0195365518 |
The life of Arsinoƫ 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.