Willy Clarysse, Dorothy J. Thompson

Broschiertes Buch

Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt 2 Volume Hardback Set

Beschreibung

This book consists of two closely related parts. Volume I publishes fifty-four Ptolemaic papyri from the Fayum and Middle Egypt, with English translations and extensive commentaries. Volume II uses these texts, created for the census and for purposes of taxation, to provide historical studies analysing fundamental aspects of Ptolemaic Egypt.

Autor

Willy Clarysse is a Fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and teaches in the Departments of Classics and the Ancient Near East at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is the author of Prosopographia Ptolemaica IX, Addenda et corrigenda au volume III (1981), The Petrie Papyri (second edition), I. The Wills (1991) and of the Leuven Database of Ancient Books (htpp://ldab.arts.kuleuven.ac.be).

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Classical Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1056
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 180mm x 76mm
• Gewicht: 2586g
• ISBN-13: 9780521839334
• ISBN-10: 0521839335
• Artikelnr.: 14709138

Rezensionen

' ... an invaluable contribution and essential reading for all students of ancient history, Egypt and papyri.' The Journal of Classics Teaching