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Author: Zofia H. Archibald
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-01-16
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1134565925
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book breaks new ground by distilling and presenting new and newly-reinterpreted evidence for the Hellenistic era and offering a compelling new set of interpretative ideas to the debate on the ancient economy.
Author: Zosia Archibald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-06-09
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 0199587922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The contributors to this volume define the distinctive economic features of the Hellenistic Age and the ways in which they have had an enduring effect on global cultural patterns.
Author: Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff
Publisher: Oxford : The Clarendon Press 1926.
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 854
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jean Bingen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780520251410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The most comprehensive account of the economy, society, and culture of Hellenistic Egypt available in English."--J.G. Manning, author of Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Structure of Land Tenure
Author: Charlotte Van Regenmortel
Publisher:
Published: 2024-05-15
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1009409018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explains the military and economic developments that engulfed the ancient Mediterranean in the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods from the perspective of labour history. It examines the changing nature of military service in the vast armies of Philip and Alexander, the Successors, and the early Hellenistic kingdoms and argues that the paid soldiers who staffed them were not just 'mercenaries', but rather the Greek world's first large-scale instance of wage labour. Using a wide range of sources, Charlotte Van Regenmortel not only offers a detailed social history of military service in these armies but also provides a novel explanation for the economic transformation of the Hellenistic age, positioning military wage-labourers as the driving force behind the period's nascent market economies. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author: Beate Dignas
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2002-12-12
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0191581968
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This original study challenges the idea that sanctuaries in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor were fully institutionalized within the poleis that hosted them. Examining the forms of interaction between rulers, cities, and sanctuaries, the book proposes a triangular relationship in which the rulers often acted as mediators between differing interests of city and cult. A close analysis of the epigraphical evidence illustrates that neither the Hellenistic kings nor the representatives of Roman rule appropriated the property of the gods but actively supported the functioning of the sanctuaries and their revenues. The powerful role of the sanctuaries was to a large extent based on economic features, which the sanctuaries possessed precisely because of their religious character. Nevertheless, a study of the finances of the cults reveals frequent problems concerning the upkeep of cults and a particular need to guard the privileges and property of the gods. Their situation oscillated between glut and dearth. When the harmonious identity between city and cult was disturbed, those closely attached to the cult acted on behalf of their domain.
Author: Glenn R. Bugh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-05-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1139827111
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from Alexander the Great to Kleopatra VII of Egypt. Each chapter treats a different aspect of the Hellenistic world - religion, philosophy, family, economy, material culture, and military campaigns, among other topics. The essays address key questions about this period: To what extent were Alexander's conquests responsible for the creation of this new 'Hellenistic' age? What is the essence of this world and how does it differ from its Classical predecessor? What continuities and discontinuities can be identified? Collectively, the essays provide an in-depth view of a complex world. The volume also provides a bibliography on the topics along with recommendations for further reading.
Author: G. J. Oliver
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2007-09-06
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0199283508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An assessment of the economic history of Athens in the Hellenistic era, G.J. Oliver looks at how political and military change affected the fragile economies of the Athenian polis, and highlights the ways in which the citizens of Athens contributed to the defence and finances of their city.
Author: Frank William Walbank
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780674387263
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a complex of monarchies and city-states that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to India. F. W. Walbank's lucid and authoritative history of that Hellenistic world examines political events, describes the different social systems and mores of the people under Greek rule, traces important developments in literature and science, and discusses the new religious movements.
Author: Zosia H. Archibald
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume focuses on the eastern mediterranean seaboard and hinterland, from the Aegean to Egypt, as well as Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau, during the time of Alexander in the 320s BC to the beginnings of Roman domination three centuries later. This period and place has such a great diversity of cultures as well as being rich in documentary sources and so provides the scholar with a wonderful "world" in which to explore changing patterns of behaviour, evolution of institutions, and the circulation and exchange of materials and services over a period and region large enough to allow a number of economies to flourish.
