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Cornelia Römer – Peter Kopp (in collaboration with Rita Hartmann, with contributions by Cäcilia Fluck, Mary F. Ownby, and Daniela Rosenow), The Village Gymnasium at Philoteris/Watfa in the Fayum, AV 10 (Wiesbaden 2025)
The volume is available online and can be accessed free of charge: https://doi.org/10.34780/k07xr378.
The print edition can be purchased through: https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de.
The book describes the first archaeological evidence of a Hellenistic gymnasium excavated in Egypt. It was located in a village in the Fayum Oasis, where people with Egyptian and Hellenistic cultural backgrounds lived together. As in large cities, the gymnasium consisted of a central courtyard surrounded by an assembly hall, a dining room, and lecture rooms. A racecourse ran alongside the gymnasium. Thanks to this archaeological discovery, attested written sources of such a village gymnasium can be compared with the reality on site.
