Show KEY TO ANCIENT HISTORY greek papyri have revealed practically all that Is known of greco roman world greek papyri were documents for ancient history which supplied a personal view of things they described classes not represented in history as usually written and helped in the study of popular psychology of the greco roman egypt and by analogy also to some extent the greco roman world the papyri illustrated the history of administration aaion showing it in actual Nv working and not in theory there was not much in the papyri on mystery cults but there were interesting religious documents documents such as the oie hymn to isis the papyri mostly illustrated the popular attitude to religion popular piety and impiety they were also useful tor for early christia christianity it ty egypt being the native country of monasticism the economic decay of the roman empire popular education and tile the history of the greek language were also illustrated by papyri the borrowings of christianity could be traced from older paganism from the papyri and the christian and pagan attitudes could thus be contrasted |