Bagnall / Derow The Hellenistic Period

Historical Sources in Translation
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4344-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History

This book presents in translation 175 of the most revealingdocuments that have survived on stone and papyrus from theHellenistic period.
* * Presents over 150 sources in translation.
* Captures the political, social, economic and religious dynamismof the Hellenistic kingdoms and cities.
* Covers the entire Hellenistic world, with extensive coverage ofthe Ptolemaic kingdom.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bagnall, Roger S.

Derow, Peter

Über Autor(innen)

Roger S. Bagnall is Professor of Classics and History atColumbia University. He has edited numerous papyri and ostraka andhis previous publications include Reading Papyri, WritingAncient History (1995), The Demography of Roman Egypt(1994) and Egypt in Late Antiquity (1993).
Peter Derow is Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient Historyat Wadham College, Oxford and Lecturer in Ancient History in theUniversity of Oxford. He has published on Hellenistic history andepigraphy and Roman republican history, and has a special interestin Polybius and dealings between Rome and the Greeks. He isco-editor with Robert Parker of Herodotus and his World: Essaysfrom a Conference in Memory of George Forrest (2003).