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A comprehensive analysis of the exceptional documentation on the family in Roman Egypt
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Historians and anthropologists join forces to tackle fundamental questions of continuity and
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A pioneering collection of essays on women’s roles and rights in different kinds of household
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Provides a review of the “Mediterranean pattern” of marriage and family.