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Dr Dorothy Thompson

Dr Dorothy J. Thompson was a Newton Trust Lecturer and Affiliated Lecturer in Ancient History (until 2006). She is a Fellow of Girton College and Bye-Fellow of Clare College

Contact:

Girton College, Cambridge CB3 0JG
Email: djt17@cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 (3)38934 (College)

 

Major publications:

Memphis under the Ptolemies, ed 2 (Princeton 2012) 

Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt, 2 vols. (Cambridge 2009), paperback of 2006 edition, joint with Willy Clarysse

Kerkeosiris: an Egyptian village in the Ptolemaic period (Cambridge 2007), paperback of 1971 edition

Some recent articles:

'Slavery in the Hellenistic world', in Cambridge History of Slavery I, ed. Paul Cartledge and Keith Bradley, 194-213 (Cambridge 2011).

'Education and culture in Hellenistic Egypt and beyond', in Escuela y Literatura en Grecia Antigua, ed. J. Fernández Delgado et al., 121-137 (Cassino 2007)

'Two Greek texts on skin from Hellenistic Bactria', ZPE 159 (2007) 273-279, joint with Willy Clarysse

'The Hellenistic family', in The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic world, ed. G. R. Bugh, 93-112 (Cambridge 2006)

Current research interests:

Culture and society of Hellenistic Egypt, the early Hellenistic world, documentary papyrology

Recent graduate research topics supervised:

Hellenistic intellectual history, Hellenistic Bactria, ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt, Ptolemaic city foundations