HIST 3154 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Metropolitan Bishop, Hellenization, Antoninus Pius

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Women and gender in roman egypt: the impact of roman rule. Central question- impact of roman rule on women in egypt. Focusing on the legal position of women and on their social mobility. The nature of the impact of roman rule differs depending on the status of the inhabitants. Roman women in egypt were subject to the augustan legislation that stimulated marriage and production of children, a set of rules from emperor augustus, but revised afterwards and extant on papyrus (415-416) The citizens of alexandria and of the other greek cities, after the roman citizens, were the upper class of the population in egypt. They lived according to their own city bylaw, but there may have been a cross=fertilization between alexandrian and roman law vis- -vis women (416) For the roman administration, all mixed population of greco-egyptian inhabitants of the countryside (cid:449)e(cid:396)e all co(cid:374)side(cid:396)ed (cid:862)eg(cid:455)ptia(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:862)aigyptioi(cid:863)(cid:895: the legal position of egyptian women.

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