Culture and Society in Greek Roman and Byzantine Egypt

This paper considers the censorship of writing in Roman Egypt from Augustus to the rise of Christianity. The practice of censorship in Rome has received significant scholarly attention (Cramer 1945, Speyer 1981, Rohmann 2013, Howley 2017), but an expansion of this discussion to include Roman Egypt is long overdue. In analyzing this phenomenon in Roman Egypt, this paper examines state-sanctioned violence against writing, the link between writing and power, notions of subversive behavior, and the impact of an imperial government on censorship practices.

In this paper, I consider local migration within the Arsinoite nome of Egypt during the first century or so of Roman rule.

The grammatical papyri offer unique insight into the intellectual and social dynamics of reading and writing circles in Roman Egypt. Following the collection and editing of a considerable corpus of such grammatical texts by Wouters (1979, cf. 1988, 1997) there has been increased scholarly discussion of the papyri and the role they play in reconstructing ancient intellectual history (cf.

In this paper I focus on the popularity and the impact of the myth of Telephus (traditionally linked with the Attalids of Pergamon) in the early third century CE, through the analysis of the oftneglected Epyllium Telephi. The Epyllium Telephi is part of a larger hexametrical text of uncertain length found in a papyrus codex sheet (P. Oxy.

This stele, which may with near certainty be assigned to Terenouthis (Kom Abu Billou), commemorates a woman named Heliodora. The combination of adjectives with which she is described makes this a most unusual artifact and document.

PBerol inv. 9782 (LDAB 3764, MP3 1393) is a fragmentary volumen made of papyrus that preserves a commentary of Plato’s Theaetetus dating back to the II century AD. Amongst the many features that make it unique (e.g., it is the only extensively preserved exemplar from Middle Platonism), there is the fact that it quotes the only alternative version of a προοίμιον (prologue) of Plato’s Theaetetus (ἄλλο προοίμιον at col.