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Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800
Roger S. Bagnall, Raffaella Cribiore, with contributions by Evie Ahtaridis-
Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright and Permissions
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List of Letters
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Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1 Introduction This Book and How It Came to Be Written
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[Intro]
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How This Book Came to Exist
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The Organization of the Book
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Other Information
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Chapter 2 Why Women's Letters?
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[Intro]
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Whose Voices Are We Hearing?
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Which Women?
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The Distinctive Value of Letters
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Generalizations and Particulars
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Chapter 3 About the Corpus of Letters
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[Intro]
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Changes in Letter Writing from Ptolemaic to Byzantine Times
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Greek and Egyptian in the Ptolemaic Period
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Formality in Ptolemaic Greek Letters
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A Colloquial Style in Roman Times
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Reversion to a Formal Style in the Early Byzantine Period
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Women’s Letters in Coptic
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The Chronological Distribution of the Letters
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[Intro]
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Some Possible Explanations
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Coptic Instead of Greek?
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Personal Names: Women as Egyptian
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Looking for Parallels
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Archives, Excavations, and Plundering
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How This Book Is Organized
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Chapter 4 Late Medieval Letters as Comparative Evidence
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[Intro]
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Four Wealthy Families
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Handwriting
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Language
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Chapter 5 Writing and Sending Letters
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Writing Materials
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[Intro]
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Papyrus
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Other Materials
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Availability of Papyrus—Reuse
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Letter Writing: Dual Letters
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Getting Letters Delivered
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[Intro]
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Addresses
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Chapter 6 Handwriting
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[Intro]
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Typology
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Professional Hands: Epistolary, Documentary, and Literary
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Secretarial Hands
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Personal Hands
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Physical Appearance of a Letter
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Final Greetings: Second Hand versus Second Style
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A Woman’s Hand
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Women Write: The Archives
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The Archive of Apollonios
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The Archive of Asklepiades
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The Archive of Pompeius
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The Archive of Kronion: The Dossier of Diogenis
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Tasoucharion, Klematia, and Demetria
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Women Write: The Isolated Letters
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Dating Handwriting
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Coptic Letters
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Chapter 7 Language
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The Greek and Egyptian Languages in Use
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Greek and Egyptian in Literate Society
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Dictated Versus Composed Versus Autograph: Orality of Letter Prose
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[Intro]
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A Woman Spins Her Tale
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Dictated Letters
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A Woman Writes
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Assessing Levels of Education: The Use of Rare Words
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Reading Our Descriptions of Language
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Chapter 8 Economic and Social Situation
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[Intro]
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The Ptolemaic Letters
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Roman Archives
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Property
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Money
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Movable Goods
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Offices
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After the Fourth Century
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Chapter 9 Household Management and Travel
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[Intro]
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Childbirth and Childrearing
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[Intro]
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Childbirth
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Pregnancy
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After the Birth
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Nursing
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Concerns
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Weaving and Other Textile-Related Activity
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[Intro]
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Textile Production
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Other Items
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Household Management
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[Intro]
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Estate Management
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Independence in Household Management
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Directives to Males Regarding the Household
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Advice/Assistance
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Food Preparation
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Public Business
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Women’s Travels and Freedom of Movement
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[Intro]
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Travel Involving Childbirth
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Travel Involving Estates
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Family Visits
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Chapter 10 Practical Help in Reading the Letters
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Names
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Kinship Terms
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Greeting Formulas
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The Proskynema Formula
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Money
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Dating
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Letters
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A Archives and Dossiers
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1 Letters from the Zenon Archive
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2 Other Ptolemaic Letters
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3 The Isidora to Asklepiades Dossier
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4 From the Athenodoros Archive
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5 The Women of the Family of Pompeius
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6 The Tiberianus Archive
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7 Women of the Archive of Apollonios the Strategos
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8 Letters from the Eastern Desert
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9 The Dossier of Eirene
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10 The Dossier of Tasoucharion
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11 The Dossier of Diogenis
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12 The Dossier of Thermouthas
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13 Didyme and the Sisters
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14 Letters to Clergy and Holy Men
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15 The Archive of Papnouthis and Dorotheos
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16 Coptic Letters from Kellis
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17 Greek Letters of the Byzantine Period
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18 Correspondence of Bishop Pisentius
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19 Coptic Letters from Jeme
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20 Coptic Letters from the Monastery of Epiphanius
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21 Christophoria Writes to Count Menas
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B Themes and Topics
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1 Family Matters and Health
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2 Business Matters
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3 Legal Matters
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4 Getting and Sending
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5 Work: Agriculture
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6 Work: Weaving and Clothes Making
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7 Work: Other
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8 Journeys
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9 Literacy and Education
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10 Religion
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11 Epistolary Types: Urgent
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12 Epistolary Types: Just Greetings and Good Wishes
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13 Double Letters on a Sheet
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14 Coptic Letters
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15 Fragmentary Greek Letters
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Notes
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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