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Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 by Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore ; with contributions by Evie Ahtaridis is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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When historians study the women of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquity, they are generally dependent on ancient literature written by men. But women themselves did write and dictate. And only in their own private letters can we discover unmediated expression of their authentic experiences. 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. These letters were written by women from various walks of life and shed light on critical social aspects of life in Egypt after the pharaohs. Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore collect the best preserved of these letters in translation and set them in their paleographic, linguistic, social, and economic contexts. As a result, Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 , provides a sense that these 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. Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 , takes the reader through theoretical discussions about the handwriting and language of the letters,

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Author

Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore ; with contributions by Evie Ahtaridis

Publisher

The University of Michigan Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472036226

Category

history

Subjects

History, Gender Studies, Ancient History

Rating

5 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14