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Reflecting the "Change in A.D. 140": The Veteran Categories of the Epikrisis Documents Revisited KU Leuven
Identity in Roman Egypt KU Leuven
© Oxford University Press 2012. All rights reserved. This article discusses identity in Roman Egypt, covering collective identities, state identity, social classes and legal categories, shifts in collective identity, gender, ethnicity and cultural-religious identity, and names as identifiers of kinship bonds and of other collectivities. Identity is about one's place in society. As under the Ptolemies, descent was crucial to belonging to an elite ...