D Alex Walthall

Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean World

Economy and Administration During the Reign of Hieron II

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book investigates the royal administration of Hieron II (r. 269-215 BCE), the Syracusan monarch who leveraged Sicily's agricultural resources to build a flourishing kingdom that played an outsized role in the political and cultural affairs of the Western Mediterranean"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 185mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1054g
• ISBN-13: 9781316511053
• ISBN-10: 1316511057
• Artikelnr.: 69298915

Autorenporträt

D. Alex Walthall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked for more than two decades in Sicily, much of which has been spent directing archaeological campaigns for the American Excavations at Morgantina. Prof. Walthall's research has been sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, the American Academy in Rome, and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Fashioning a Kingdom
1. From general to king
2. Fashioning kingship
3. Cities in the kingdom
II. Measuring a Kingdom
4. Seeing the Hieronian state
5. Standards and the state
6. Monumental granaries
7. The Hieronian mint
8. Institutions and markets in Hieronian Sicily
Conclusion.