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Double Names and Elite Strategy in Roman Egypt (Studia Hellenistica) by Yanne Broux is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In this detailed study of double names in Egypt, Yanne Broux explores how the age-old tradition of polyonymy flourished under Roman rule. While in the Ptolemaic period double names were mainly bilingual and were thus connected to the concept of ethnicity, they underwent a significant change starting around the middle of the first century AD and culminating in the third. Broux argues that this shift from Ptolemaic Greek-Egyptian to Roman Greek-Greek double names was the outcome of two structures
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Yanne Broux
- Publisher
- Peeters Publishers & Booksellers
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789042931251
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Reference
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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