The impact of political changes on the Social Status of Women in Egypt From the Late Period to the end of the Ptolemaic period {1069: 30 BC. M.}

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The main aim of this Research is to Identify the Impact of the Political changes on the Social Status of Women in Egypt From the Late Period, which began from the end of the twentieth dynasty until the invasion of Alexander the Great in 332 BC to the end of the Ptolemaic Period.
 Political changes continued, especially after the death of Alexander and the distribution of his kingdom among his leaders; Egypt fell into the Greek Ptolemy, who became King Ptolemy Ist in about 323 BC, establishing the Ptolemaic Dynasty until it fell at the end of the reign of Queen Cleopatra VII at the battle of Actium in 30 BC.
During that period, Egypt passed by different influences according
To dealing with those foreign communities which settled in Egypt.
Most of the results were against the Egyptian`s customs and traditions. According to these cases there were a spread strange custom, such as prostitution, adultery, and the emergence of illegitimate children which appeared in all the levels of society. 
It is well known that the researchers focused their attention on the study of women in Egypt during its Pharaonic times, focused the themes of their studies on what is written from Greek sources, which does not give a true picture of the status of women Under the rule of the Ptolemies and the Greco-Roman, which is what the present paper will attempt to study through Egyptian documents and literary texts in that period.

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