The private letters of ancient women in Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest

When historians study the women of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquity, they are generally dependent on literature written by men. But women themselves did write and dictate. More than three hundred letters written in Greek and Egyptian by women in Egypt in the millennium from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest survive. Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore collect the best preserved of these letters in translation and set them in their paleographic, linguistic, social, and economic contexts.