Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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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:

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

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

Memphis under the Ptolemies (Princeton 1988)

Some recent articles:

'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)

'Posidippus, poet of the Ptolemies', in The new Posidippus. A Hellenistic poetry book, ed. K. Gutzwiller, 269-283 (Oxford 2005)

Current research interests:

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

Recent graduate research topics supervised:

Hellenistic Bactria, ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt, Ptolemaic city foundations, Ptolemaic military settlers