This book presents in translation 175 of the most revealing
documents that have survived on stone and papyrus from the
Hellenistic period.
* * Presents over 150 sources in translation.
* Captures the political, social, economic and religious dynamism
of the Hellenistic kingdoms and cities.
* Covers the entire Hellenistic world, with extensive coverage of
the Ptolemaic kingdom.
Tabla de materias
Table of Documents ix
List of Illustrations xv
Preface xvii
Note on Editorial Practice xxi
Abbreviations xxii
Note on Reading Documents xxiv
The Texts 1
I Political History 1
II The Foreign Possessions of the Ptolemies 111
III Life in Greek Cities 119
IV The Bureaucracy of Ptolemaic Egypt 144
V The Royal Economy of Egypt 163
VI The Military and Police of Ptolemaic Egypt 199
VII The Ptolemaic Legal and Judicial System 206
VIII Social Relations and Private Life 229
IX Religion 247
Appendix: Ptolemaic Administration 285
Tables and Charts 289
I Ptolemaic Kings 289
II Seleucid Kings to 96 BC 290
III Antigonid Kings 290
IV Attalid Rulers 291
V Months 291
VI Currency 292
Glossary and Index of Greek Terms 293
Concordance: Papyri 301
Concordance: Inscriptions 305
Concordance between Editions 309
Index of Persons, Places and Subjects 311
Sobre el autor
Roger S. Bagnall is Professor of Classics and History at
Columbia University. He has edited numerous papyri and ostraka and
his previous publications include Reading Papyri, Writing
Ancient History (1995), The Demography of Roman Egypt
(1994) and Egypt in Late Antiquity (1993).
Peter Derow is Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History
at Wadham College, Oxford and Lecturer in Ancient History in the
University of Oxford. He has published on Hellenistic history and
epigraphy and Roman republican history, and has a special interest
in Polybius and dealings between Rome and the Greeks. He is
co-editor with Robert Parker of Herodotus and his World: Essays
from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest (2003).
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