Manning The Last Pharaohs

Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3164-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Manning, J. G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xi

Abbreviations xv

INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER 1: Egypt in the First Millennium BC 19

CHAPTER 2: The Historical Understanding of the Ptolemaic State 29

CHAPTER 3: Moving beyond Despotism, Economic Planning, and State Banditry 55

Ptolemaic Egypt as a Premodern State

CHAPTER 4: Shaping a New State 73

The Political Economy of the Ptolemies

CHAPTER 5: Creating a New Economic Order 117

Economic Life and Economic Policy under the Ptolemies

CHAPTER 6: Order and Law 165

Shaping the Law in a New State

CHAPTER 7: Conclusions 202

APPENDIX 207

The Trial Record of the Property Dispute Held at the Temple of Wepwawet in Asyut, Upper Egypt, 170 BC before the Local Laokritai-judges

Bibliography 217

Index 259

Index of Sources 263

Über Autor(innen)

J. G. Manning is professor of classics and history at Yale University, and a senior research scholar at Yale Law School. He is the author of Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt and the coeditor of The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models.