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The Family in Roman Egypt

A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational Solidarity and Conflict

Sabine R Huebner author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:26th Oct '17

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This book examines the role of the family in the Roman province of Egypt drawing on a wide range of sources.

This is a book for students and scholars of ancient social history, but also historians of other periods interested in the history of the family, capturing the dynamics of everyday family life of the common people and making a substantial contribution to understanding Roman provincial society.This study captures the dynamics of the everyday family life of the common people in Roman Egypt, a social strata that constituted the vast majority of any pre-modern society but rarely figures in ancient sources or in modern scholarship. The documentary papyri and, above all, the private letters and the census returns provide us with a wealth of information on these people not available for any other region of the ancient Mediterranean. The book discusses such things as family composition and household size, and the differences between urban and rural families, exploring what can be ascribed to cultural patterns, economic considerations and/or individual preferences by setting the family in Roman Egypt into context with other pre-modern societies where families adopted such strategies to deal with similar exigencies of their daily lives.

'(An) absorbing study.' Ancient Egypt

ISBN: 9781108438698

Dimensions: 230mm x 153mm x 15mm

Weight: 420g

274 pages