Women in Hellenistic Egypt: from Alexander to Cleopatra

by Sarah B. Pomeroy

This work studies the lives of women from various social classes in Hellenistic Egypt, from Cleopatra VII to Jewish slaves. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Egypt, Classics, Feminism, Greece

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Sarah B. Pomeroy, Professor of Classics and History, Emerita, at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She was born in New York City (1938) and earned her B.A. from Barnard College in 1957. She received her M.A. in 1959 and her Ph.D. in 1961, both from Columbia University. Pomeroy has been recognized as a leading authority on ancient Greek and Roman women since her book Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity was first published in 1975. Her other publications include Xenophon, Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary (1994), Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities (1998), Spartan Women (2002), and, with Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan, and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, the textbooks Ancient Greece: a Political, Social, and Cultural History (4th edition, 2017) and A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture (3rd edition, 2011).[i]

Reviews

[Leen Bokken]

Ondanks het feit dat sommige stellingen manifest onjuist zijn, is dit een enorm interessant boek.

[Nefeli Georgiou]

An enlightening research on women in Hellenistic Egypt. Each chapter deals with an aspect of women’s life. I particularly enjoyed learning about marriage contracts and how typical it was even for middle class people living in small towns to draft them up in order to protect the bride and groom’s interests.