Willy Clarysse, Dorothy J. Thompson

Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Important study of the economic and social history of Ptolemaic Egypt, based on the salt-tax registers of P. Count.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9780521124836
• ISBN-10: 0521124832
• Artikelnr.: 27987357

Inhaltsangabe

1. Ptolemies, taxes and papyri
2. The census
3. The salt-tax and other taxes
4. Settlement in the Fayum
5. The people counted
6. Counting the animals
7. Family matters
8. Naming the people
9. Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.

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1. Ptolemies, taxes and papyri; 2. The census; 3. The salt-tax and other taxes; 4. Settlement in the Fayum; 5. The people counted; 6. Counting the animals; 7. Family matters; 8. Naming the people; 9. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Rezensionen

Review of the hardback: 'Good books are common. Great books are rare, and rarer still are great books that have the potential of moving scholarship in a new direction. Such a work is Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt ... By reconstructing 427 households containing 1,271 adults and situating them in their socio-economic context, they have laid the indispensable foundation for all future studies of the social history of Ptolemaic Egypt. All historians of Hellenistic Egypt are in their debt.' Ancient West and East