TY - BOOK ID - 19114241 TI - Social networks in Byzantine Egypt PY - 2008 SN - 0521367964 9780521367967 9780521895378 0521895375 9780511552014 051147993X 9780511479939 9780511480737 0511480733 1107201497 9786612001598 1282001590 0511552017 0511477538 0511476086 0511479050 PB - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social networks KW - Social networks. KW - History. KW - 30 B.C.-640 A.D. KW - Bahnasā (Egypt) KW - Aphrodito (Extinct city) KW - Egypt KW - Egypt. KW - History KW - Networking, Social KW - Networks, Social KW - Social networking KW - Social support systems KW - Support systems, Social KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Cliques (Sociology) KW - Microblogs KW - Bahnasā (Egypt) KW - Al Bahnasā (Egypt) KW - El-Bahnasa (Egypt) KW - Oxirrinc (Egypt) KW - Oxyrhynchos (Egypt) KW - Aphroditopolis (Ancient city) KW - Aphroditopolis (Sūhāj, Egypt : Extinct city) KW - Antiquities KW - Ancient history KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Bahnasa (Egypt) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19114241 AB - Social network analysis maps relationships and transactions between people and groups. This text was the first book-length application of this method to the ancient world, using the abundant documentary evidence from sixth-century Oxyrhynchos and Aphrodito in Egypt. Professor Ruffini combines a prosopographical survey of both sites with computer analyses of the topographical and social networks in their papyri. He thereby uncovers hierarchical social structures in Oxyrhynchos not present in Aphrodito, and is able for the first time to trace the formation of the famous Apion estate. He can also use quantitative techniques to locate the central players in the Aphrodito social landscape, allowing us to see past the family of Dioskoros to discover the importance of otherwise unknown figures. He argues that the apparent social differences between Oxyrhynchos and Aphrodito in fact represent different levels of geographic scale, both present within the same social model. ER -