Social Networks in Byzantine Egypt

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Dedication......Page 8
Figures......Page 9
Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
References and abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
Implications for the study of the later roman empire......Page 19
Network analysis: a tutorial for ancient historians......Page 20
Social network analysis and the ancient world......Page 26
Starting from scratch: how to make and analyze a network data set......Page 32
Network vocabulary and concepts......Page 40
Introduction......Page 53
The large estates......Page 55
The estates of theon and timagenes......Page 65
Fl. apion theodosios ioannes, samuel and phoibammon......Page 73
The eulogios archive......Page 76
The female elite: fl. euphemia and fl. anastasia......Page 82
Family tension and economic difficulty: the case of christodote and kometes......Page 87
The oxyrhynchos church......Page 92
Conclusion......Page 103
Introduction......Page 106
The family and career of the flavii apiones......Page 108
Quantifying the apionic population......Page 111
A. The nome-wide texts......Page 113
B. The Apionic estate-wide texts......Page 117
C. The Apionic pronoetic texts......Page 120
Mapping the apions i: traditional approaches......Page 131
Mapping the apions ii: network approaches......Page 139
Tracking apionic chronological expansion......Page 150
Comparing the oxyrhynchite and apionic topographical networks......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 156
Introduction......Page 159
Aphrodito: the village and its archives......Page 162
Apollos, dioskoros, and the village elite......Page 164
Phoibammon son of triadelphos......Page 172
Property management and social connectivity......Page 175
Settling disputes......Page 180
Flavius ammonios comes......Page 185
The petition to the empress......Page 189
The murder mystery......Page 192
Aphrodito, neighboring villages and beyond......Page 196
Aphrodito and its pagarchs......Page 199
Conclusion......Page 207
Introduction......Page 210
Testing the methodology......Page 211
Testing the data-set......Page 216
Aphrodito\'s most central social actors......Page 223
Shepherds and fieldguards......Page 230
Network features i: centrality and average distance......Page 238
Network features ii: tie strength......Page 240
Change over time i: isolating sub-networks by decade......Page 244
Change over time ii: testing network cutpoints......Page 246
Conclusion......Page 252
Conclusion......Page 254
Final thoughts......Page 263
Stemmata......Page 267
Bibliography......Page 269
Subject index......Page 285
Index locorum......Page 288