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Author: Willy Clarysse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-06-12
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780521838399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImportant study of the economic and social history of Ptolemaic Egypt, based on the salt-tax registers of P. Count.
Author: Willy Clarysse
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521152341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian Muhs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-02
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1316558746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first economic history of ancient Egypt covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000–30 BCE, and employing a New Institutional Economics approach. It argues that the ancient Egyptian state encouraged an increasingly widespread and sophisticated use of writing through time, primarily in order to better document and more efficiently exact taxes for redistribution. The increased use of writing, however, also resulted in increased documentation and enforcement of private property titles and transfers, gradually lowering their transaction costs relative to redistribution. The book also argues that the increasing use of silver as a unified measure of value, medium of exchange, and store of wealth also lowered transaction costs for high value exchanges. The increasing use of silver in turn allowed the state to exact transfer taxes in silver, providing it with an economic incentive to further document and enforce private property titles and transfers.
Author: Willy Clarysse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-07-27
Total Pages: 732
ISBN-13: 9780521838382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImportant study of the economic and social history of Ptolemaic Egypt, based on the salt-tax registers of P. Count.
Author: Willy Clarysse
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Published: 2006
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2010-05-01
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 0199802890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.
Author: Lester L. Grabbe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-10-27
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0567381749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the second volume of the projected four-volume history of the Second Temple period. It is axiomatic that there are large gaps in the history of the Persian period, but the early Greek period is possibly even less known. This volume brings together all we know about the Jews during the period from Alexander's conquest to the eve of the Maccabaean revolt, including the Jews in Egypt as well as the situation in Judah. Based directly on the primary sources, which are surveyed, the study addresses questions such as administration, society, religion, economy, jurisprudence, Hellenism and Jewish identity. These are discussed in the context of the wider Hellenistic world and its history. A strength of the study is its extensive up-to-date secondary bibliography (approximately one thousand items).
Author: Joel Korytko
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-10-09
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 900468204X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany laws in the Old Greek translation of the Covenant Code do not say the same thing as the Hebrew text. In the past, various idiosyncrasies in the Greek translation of laws that involve the death penalty had been glossed over and considered stylistic variations or grammatical outliers. However, when the text-linguistic features of the Greek translation are compared to contemporary literary, documentary, and legal Greek sources, new readings emerge: cursing a parent is no longer punishable by death; a law about bestiality becomes a law about animal husbandry; the authority of certain legal commands is deregulated. This work explores these and other new readings in comparison with contemporary Greco-Egyptian law.
Author: Rachel Mairs
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-08-05
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0520292464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as they were indigenous. To explore the lives and identities of the inhabitants of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, Rachel Mairs marshals a variety of evidence, from archaeology, to coins, to documentary and historical texts. Looking particularly at the great city of Ai Khanoum, the only extensively excavated Hellenistic period urban site in Central Asia, Mairs explores how these ancient people lived, communicated, and understood themselves. Significant and original, The Hellenistic Far East will highlight Bactrian studies as an important part of our understanding of the ancient world.
Author: D. Alex Walthall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-12-31
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1316511057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing archaeological and documentary evidence, this book reveals the innerworkings of the Sicilian kingdom of the Hellenistic monarch Hieron II.
