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| List of maps | |
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| List of figures | |
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| List of plates | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes for the reader | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The purpose of this book | |
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| Greek and Roman Egypt: historical background | |
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| The nature of the source material | |
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| Royalty and religion | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ptolemaic Queens (1-15) | |
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| Roman Imperial women (16-20) | |
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| Goddesses (21-26) | |
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| Priestesses (27-36) | |
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| Religion and the Individual (37-48) | |
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| Christianity (49-68) | |
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| Family matters | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Perspectives on the family (69-75) | |
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| Archives | |
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| The archive of Zenon, Philadelphia (76-77) | |
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| The Serapeum archive, Memphis (78-83) | |
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| The archive of Dryton and Apollonia alias Senmonthis, Pathyris (84-87) | |
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| The archive of Tryphon, Oxyrhynchos (88-91) | |
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| The archive of Apollonios the strategos and Aline (92-99) | |
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| The archive of Kronion, farmer of Tebtynis, and his family (100-103) | |
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| The archive of Taesion/Taesis (104-105) | |
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| The archive of Gaius Julius Niger (106-107) | |
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| The archive of Satornila and her sons (108-110) | |
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| The archive of Paniskos and Ploutogenia, Philadelphia (111-115) | |
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| The archive of Flavius Dioskoros, Aphrodite (116-117) | |
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| Status and law | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Egyptian background (118-121) | |
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| Greek and Egyptian in a colonial society (122-130) | |
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| Roman transformations (131-144) | |
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| Freedom and responsibility in developed Roman society (145-156) | |
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| Continuity and change in the Coptic texts (157-161) | |
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| Economic activities | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Women and agricultural land (162-181) | |
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| Women in the non-agricultural economy (182-217) | |
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| Being female | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Birth, infancy and childhood (218-235) | |
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| Education (236-246) | |
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| Marriage and married life (247-263) | |
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| Sickness, death and burial (264-279) | |
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| Weaklings or viragos? The ambiguities of womanhood (280-289) | |
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| List and concordance of texts | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |