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Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800

By Roger S. Bagnall, Raffaella Cribiore

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About the book

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 wom...Show more

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9780472036226

Publisher

The University of Michigan Press

Published year

2015

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1

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Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800

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Paperback

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