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Christelle Fischer Bovet

Stanford University
Classics Department

Christelle received her License ès Lettres in History, Ancient Greek, and French at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2001) and her MA in Classics from Stanford University. She worked as a research assistant at the Fonds National Suisse and is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Classics department at Stanford.

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Project Summary

By combining the extraordinarily rich documentation of Ptolemaic Egypt with social theory, my dissertation sheds new light on how military institutions shaped power structures within villages and between local and central state institutions. The aim of this project is to explore the organization of the army, its role in society as a vehicle for land distribution, as a provider of group solidarity and social networks, and finally as a place of interaction between Greek and Egyptian culture.