Mario C. D. Paganini obtained his DPhil in Ancient History from the University of Oxford and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Copenhagen and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has conducted extensive research on the socio-cultural history of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and on Greek documentary papyrology, including on private associations and on the first global edition of the papyri belonging to the archive of Apollonios, strategus of the Apollonopolites Heptakomias (second century AD).

• 1: Introduction 2: The Institution 3: The Gymnasium at Alexandria 4: Legal Status of Gymnasia 5: The Officials 6: Gymnasial Status 7: Outsiders: Integration and Rejection 8: Living the Greek Way 9: The Gymnasium and Greek Identity Appendix 1: Gymnasia and 'Gymnasial Bodies' of Ptolemaic Egypt by Location Appendix 2: List of Relevant Sources for the Ptolemaic Period Appendix 3: Prosopography of Gymnasiarchs Chronology of Ptolemaic Sovereigns

The novelty of this book is that it shifts focus away from Greek poleis to the communities of Greek immigrants in Hellenistic Egypt.