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Social identity, social meaning, and the dynamics of everyday writing in Roman and Late Antique Egypt Ghent University
Elite Strategy vs Popular Characterization: Double Names in Roman Egypt. KU Leuven
On the basis of the interdisciplinary platform Trismegistos (www.trismegistos.org), the project 'Creating Identities in Graeco-Roman Egypt' studies evolutions of language use and onomastic habits in ancient Egypt, between 800 BC and AD 800. As a part of this project, my dissertation investigates the use of double names in Roman Egypt.Trismegistos gathers information about all published textual source material from Egypt in the aforementioned ...
Explicit name change in Roman Egypt KU Leuven
Presents an overview of the specific occasions resulting in name change (which can often be linked to a change of status, e.g. Roman citizenship), while suggesting some amendments to previous explanations.-Requesting a name change.-Roman citizenship.-"Greek" status.-Slaves' names in sales contracts.-Unknown reasons for name change and alleged examples [in P. Bouriant 42].
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 ...
The textualization of women’s letters from Roman Egypt : analyzing historical framing practices from a multi-modal point of view Ghent University
The textualization of literary works with an oral background such as the Homeric epics or the New Testament has come under renewed attention in recent years, but much less attention has been paid to non-literary sources. This contribu-tion focuses on the corpus of women’s letters from Egypt and suggests that the notion of “framing” is central to our un-derstanding of textualization practices. It argues for a complex, “multi-modal” understanding ...
Greek names with the ending -ιανός/-ianus in Roman Egypt KU Leuven
The suffix-iavos was a popular naming element in the Eastern Roman Empire. It is generally understood that this was the Greek rendering of Latin -ianus. In this article, Greek forms ending in this suffix attested in Egypt are examined in detail. The origin of these 'Latinized' names is traced, and particular attention is devoted to the parents who bestowed the names, as well as to the role of the disemination of Roman citizenship in the naming ...
The Maternal Line in Greek Identification. Signalling Social Status in Roman Egypt (30 BC - AD 400) KU Leuven
Since Greeks were generally unaccustomed to adding their maternal line to their identification, it is surprising to find metronymics in Greek papyri from Egypt. The rather exceptional Ptolemaic examples can be explained by Egyptian influence, but in the early Roman period there is a sudden rise in the use of mothers' names. This article discusses the evolution of this practice and its relation to the socio-legal changes during the first four ...