Roger S. Bagnall & Peter Derow 
The Hellenistic Period [PDF ebook] 
Historical Sources in Translation

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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l’auteur

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).