At Home Roman Egypt Social Archaeology Anna Lucille Boo… Hardcover 9781108830928

At Home in Roman EgyptA Social Archaeology\nAuthor(s): Anna Lucille Boozer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108830928, 978-1108830928\nSynopsis\nWhat was life like for ordinary people who lived in Roman Egypt? In this volume, Anna Lucille Boozer reconstructs and examines the everyday lives of non-elite individuals. It is the first book to bring a 'life course' approach to the study of Roman Egypt and Egyptology more [url] on evidence drawn from objects, portraits, and letters, she focuses on the quotidian details that were most meaningful to those who lived during the centuries of Roman occupation. Boozer explores these individuals through each phase of the life cycle from conception, childbirth, childhood, and youth, to adulthood and old age and focuses on essential themes such as religion, health, disability, death, and the afterlife. Illuminating the lives of people forgotten by most histo.