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

by Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore

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. Bagnall and Cribiore collect the best preserved of these letters in translation and set them in their paleographic, linguistic, social, and economic contexts. 420p (Michigan University Press 2006)

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