Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt
A sourcebook
A wealth of evidence for the lives of ordinary men and women – from texts (includ-
ing personal letters) written on papyrus and other materials to objects of everyday
use and funerary portraits – has 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,
Latin 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.
Jane Rowlandson is Lecturer in Ancient History at King’s College London and the
author of Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt:The Social Relations of Agriculture in
the Oxyrhynchite Nome ().
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978-0-521-58815-7 - Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook
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