Class Syllabus

Week 1 Introduction
9/5 Introduction
Week 2-4 Cities
9/12
9/19
9/26

Administrative and religious centers of ancient Egypt
The impact of Ptolemaic military settlers
Roman urbanism and public policy
Languages, literature, and culture: the fate of Hellenism
Week 5-7 Villages
10/3
10/10
10/17

What is a village?
Greek settlers in the countryside: the king and the land
Economic rationalism hits and archaic economy
Villages and cities under the Romans
The military in village society
Autonomy and integration
Week 8-10 Gender
10/24
10/31
11/7 		Egyptian women: image and reality
Women in a world of immigration
Birth, reproduction and death
Roman gender roles and legal frameworks
Gender and social stratification
Christianity and women
Week 11-13 Religion
11/14
11/21
11/28 		The world of the Egyptian temples
The Greeks and the wisdom of Egypt
The Sarapieion of Memphis as meeting ground
Ideology, loyalty and power
The temples in a bilingual society
Burial and mummification as cultural and religious acts
The Christianization of Egypt
Monasticism
Week 14 Concluding discussion
12/5 Concluding discussion