Essays
1. What are the major problems in understanding Antony and Cleopatra?
2. What were the major features of the Augustan settlement of Egypt?
3. Should we think of Alexandria as a Greek city?
4. What can the archaeology of Roman Karanis tell us about life in an Egyptian village?
5. How did the cities of Egypt change under Roman rule?
6. How effectively did the army suppress social unrest?
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Did the veterans and soldiers form an elite within Egypt?
7. What do the funerary masks, paintings and monuments tell us about death in Roman Egypt?

Source essay questions
Translations provided are either my own, provided via www and credited appropriately or, in the case of P. Oxy. translations, by courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society to whom I give thanks.
1. What do either the Augustan poets and historians writing about Augustus or Juvenal, Satire XV or Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride tell us about Roman attitudes towards Egypt?
2. What does Claudius' Letter to the Alexandrians tell us about relations between Alexandria and the emperors?
3. From the papyri you have studied, how can we reconstruct women's lives in Roman Egypt?
4. To what extent should we treat the accounts of the revolt of the Boukoloi as novelistic?
5. What are the major problems and advantages of using Athanasius' Life of Antony as a historical source?