State Correspondence in the Ancient World (eBook, PDF)

From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire
Redaktion: Radner, Karen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

State Correspondence in the Ancient World introduces the reader to the state correspondences of centralized states and empires of the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the 15th century BC to the 6th century AD, and analyses their role in ensuring the stability of these geographically extensive state systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199354788
• Artikelnr.: 40340812

Autorenporträt

Karen Radner is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History at University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

* Figures and Tables
* Contributors
* Introduction: Long-Distance Communication and the Cohesion of Early
Empires
* Karen Radner
* 1 Egyptian state correspondence of the New Kingdom: the letters of
the Levantine client kings in the Amarna correspondence and
contemporary evidence
* Jana Mynárová
* 2 State correspondence in the Hittite World
* Mark Weeden
* 3 An imperial communication network: the state correspondence of the
Neo-Assyrian Empire
* Karen Radner
* 4 The lost state correspondence of the Babylonian Empire as reflected
in contemporary administrative letters
* Michael Jursa
* 5 State communications in the Persian Empire
* Amelie Kuhrt
* 6 The king's words: Hellenistic royal letters in inscriptions
* Alice Bencivenni
* 7 State correspondence in the Roman empire from Augustus to Justinian
* Simon Corcoran
* Bibliography
* Index