Description: This book examines the role of the family in the Roman province of Egypt drawing on a wide range of sources.
Brief description: Sabine R. Huebner is Privatdozentin of Ancient History at Freie Universitat Berlin. She has published on the social and religious history of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Her previous work includes a monograph, Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spatantiken Kleinasiens (2005), a co-edited volume, Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity (with David Ratzan, 2009), and a forthcoming study on The Family in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the 19th Century. She is also one of the general editors of the Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012) with over 5000 articles in 12 volumes.
Review Quotes: '(An) absorbing study.' Ancient Egypt