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Name Christelle Fischer-Bovet
Position Associate Professor
Institutional Affiliation University of Southern California
Latitude 34.0223519
Longitude -118.2873057
Research Interests

Hellenistic and Egyptian history, Hellenistic demography and identity

Websites https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1024522
Publications

"Publications
Book
April 2014 Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt, 323-30 BC, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge. (www.cambridge.org/9781107007758).
Journal articles and Book Chapters
Forthcoming
2015
“Security and border policy. Army and police. I. Ptolemaic Egypt”, in Vandorpe, K. (ed),
Blackwell Companion. Greco-Roman and Late antique Egypt.
Forthcoming
2014
“Est-il facile de conquérir l’Egypte? L’invasion d’Antiochus IV et ses conséquences” in
Feyel, C., Graslin, L. (eds) Le projet politique d’Antiochos IV”, Nancy (France).
Forthcoming
2014
“Ethnic identity and status: comparing Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt”, in Ziche, H.
(ed), Identity and Identification in Antiquity, Cambridge Scholars Press, available on
Academia.edu.
2014 “Un aspect des conséquences des réformes de l'armée lagide : Soldats, temples Egyptiens
et inviolabilité (asylia)”, in Véïsse, A.-E., Wackenier, S. (ed.), Cahiers de l'Atelier
Aigyptos 2. L'armée en Egypte aux époques perse, ptolémaïque et romaine, Paris, EPHE.
2013 “Egyptian warriors: the machimoi of Herodotus and the Ptolemaic army”, in Classical
Quarterly, CUP, 209-236.
2012 “A military reform before the battle of Raphia?” with Willy Clarysse, in Archiv für
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Papyrusforschung 58, 26-35
2012 “Silver and bronze standards and the date of P. Heid. VI 383” with Willy Clarysse, in
Archiv für Papyrusforschung 58, 26-35
2011 “Counting the Greeks in Egypt: immigration in the first century of Ptolemaic rule”, in
Holeran, C., Pudsey, A. (eds), Demography and the Graeco-Roman World: New Insights
and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 135-154.
2003 *Translation of “Cadmos et les Labdacides (4.1-5.9)” in P. Schubert (ed.), Apollodore,
La Bibliothèque. Un Manuel antique de mythologie, Editions de l'Aire, 2003, 133-143.
2000 *Translation of Papyri (# 21, 25, 58, 59, 68) in P. Schubert (ed.), Vivre en Egypte GrécoRomaine,
Editions de l'Aire, 2000.
Note: All publications are refereed unless marked with an *
Editions of Papyri
2013 “Greek Papyri of the Classics Department at Stanford” (P. Stan. Class.). Part I, with
Willy Clarysse, in The Journal of Juristic Papyrology (57 pages with plates).
2009 “Letter Requesting Medical Tools (PStrasbCopte inv. 563)”, in I. Andorlini (ed.), Greek
Medical Papyri II, Firenze, 157-165.
2006 “Retour sur SB XX 14070 : les affaires de la famille d’un vétéran dans le nome
arsinoïte”, in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 155, 200-206.
Encyclopedia entries
2014
Forthcoming
“Ptolemaic Egypt”, in MacKenzie, J. (eds), Encyclopedia of Empire, Wiley-Blackwell,
Oxford, (1,000 words).
2012 “Ethnicity in Greco-Roman Egypt”, “Egyptian revolts”, “Katoikoi”, “Colossi of
Memnon”, in Bagnall, R. et. al., Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Wiley-Blackwell,
Oxford, (3,500 words).
2011 “Herwennefer and Ankhwennefer”, in Gates, H. L., Akyeampong, E. (eds),
The Dictionary of African Biography, Oxford University Press (1,000 words).
Book Reviews
2014 * Moyer, (I.) Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2011, x + 347 p. in European Review of History 20.6
2013 * Kelly (B.) Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt. Pp. xx + 427,
maps. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, in Classical Review 63.1
Working Papers (online)
2007 “P. Tebt. VI 1169: Copy of a Judicial Proceeding (P.Tebt. UC 1589-91)” in Hickey,
T., Verhoogt, A. (eds.), The Tebtunis Papyri VI (P.Tebt. VI), University of Berkeley,
California, available on Academia.edu.
2007 “Army and Egyptian temple building under the Ptolemies”, Conference Paper, XXV
International Congress of Papyrology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Version 1.0 October, Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics.
Work in progress
• Book project, The Ptolemaic Empire. State formation in Egypt after Alexander for Oxford Studies
in Early Empires (under contract with Oxford University Press).
• “The concept of decline in the historiography of Hellenistic Egypt”, for Topoi.
• “The Ptolemaic army”, article for The Oxford Handbooks Online in Classical Studies.
• “Early Ptolemaic naval activities in the Mediterranean”, article project.
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• “Les Egyptiens dans la flotte et l’armée de terre sous les trois premiers Lagides” in Derda, T. (ed),
Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology, Warsaw, submitted 02/2014.
• “Social unrest in Ptolemaic Egypt and in the Seleucid Empire: balancing ethnic and socioeconomic
solidarities”, submitted 04/2014."
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