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AGRS 130 :  Topics in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture: "An ancient society, closer to the ground: Graeco-Roman Egypt through the papyri"
Course Catalog No: 26987
Bancroft Lib 373
TTh
Todd Hickey
12:30-2:00

Much of our knowledge about the ancient Mediterranean world is transmitted by
texts that were originally produced by (and about) elites, but Graeco-Roman Egypt offers
an exception: Its wealth of books and documents preserved on papyrus and related media—
objects of broad daily use that have come down to us in varying states of preservation—
offers access to the social, cultural, and economic lives of an unprecedentedly wide swath
of people, including individuals whose narratives have typically been homogenized or
silenced by elite discourse. In Classics 130-J you will learn how to read and interpret this
rich corpus of primary evidence (which is naturally not without its difficulties and
shortcomings) and to deploy it for the writing of more inclusive histories of the ancient
Mediterranean.