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Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra

Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra

Pomeroy, Sarah B.

Paperback

Ancient EgyptWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0814322301
ISBN13: 9780814322307
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Feb 1 1990
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.04 Depth: 7.56
Language: English

Using evidence from a wide array of sources, Sarah Pomeroy discusses women ranging from queens such as Arsinoë II and Cleopatra VII to Jewish slaves working on a Greek estate.

After its conquest in 331 B.C., Egypt became the center of the Hellenistic world, attracting men and women from other parts of the Mediterranean area. In this cosmopolitan and mobile society, Greek women of the ruling class had unprecedented opportunities and were able to employ some of the legal freedoms enjoyed by their Egyptian counterparts.

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