Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 by Raffaella Cribiore, Roger S. Bagnall

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

Raffaella Cribiore, Roger S. Bagnall

440 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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. Written by women from various walks of life, they shed light on critica...

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