Sarah Pomeroy Women In Hellenistic Egypt Summary
Book Citation Pomeroy, Sarah. Women in Hellenistic Egypt: from Alexander to Cleopatra (New York: Schocken Books), 1984.
Author’s Goal The author’s goal in writing this book would be to inform people about ancient women focusing more on Egypt and sounding areas. Women were not very popular in ancient times; therefore people know less about them compared to men. Because of the lack of information many people argue about the status of ancient women, Pomeroy wrote this book to provide as much information about women as she could to inform her readers. Pomeroy also tends to focus on the women who achieved great goals in life as to say that even women in ancient times did great things and were not just treated as dirt.
Summery
Pomeroy wrote her book more like a college textbook compared to a traditional book. She divides the book into five chapters; Queens, Alexandrian Women, Some Married …show more content…
In chapter two, Alexandrian Women, she wrote a section called memorable events. In this section she writes about how women were educated in the 4th century and that the lucky few were able to attend schools, participate in philosophy, and make …show more content…
Women in Egypt could own land and even divorce their husbands. “In the Fayum, the wife also has the right to leave the husband voluntarily, weather or not he has transgressed the provisions of the contract.” (Pomeroy, 95) This is uncommon for a woman to be able to divorce her husband. In most areas it would be impossible to do this, most women had no rights, and the only way she was going to leave her husband is if her husband made that choice. In most cases if a man did not want to be with his wife anymore he could divorce her or have her killed, that is why it is very important that women in Egypt could divorce there
Author’s Goal The author’s goal in writing this book would be to inform people about ancient women focusing more on Egypt and sounding areas. Women were not very popular in ancient times; therefore people know less about them compared to men. Because of the lack of information many people argue about the status of ancient women, Pomeroy wrote this book to provide as much information about women as she could to inform her readers. Pomeroy also tends to focus on the women who achieved great goals in life as to say that even women in ancient times did great things and were not just treated as dirt.
Summery
Pomeroy wrote her book more like a college textbook compared to a traditional book. She divides the book into five chapters; Queens, Alexandrian Women, Some Married …show more content…
In chapter two, Alexandrian Women, she wrote a section called memorable events. In this section she writes about how women were educated in the 4th century and that the lucky few were able to attend schools, participate in philosophy, and make …show more content…
Women in Egypt could own land and even divorce their husbands. “In the Fayum, the wife also has the right to leave the husband voluntarily, weather or not he has transgressed the provisions of the contract.” (Pomeroy, 95) This is uncommon for a woman to be able to divorce her husband. In most areas it would be impossible to do this, most women had no rights, and the only way she was going to leave her husband is if her husband made that choice. In most cases if a man did not want to be with his wife anymore he could divorce her or have her killed, that is why it is very important that women in Egypt could divorce there