The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History) - Softcover

 
9781405101332: The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History)
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ISBN 10: 1405101334 ISBN 13: 9781405101332
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

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This book presents in translation 175 of the most revealing documents that have survived on stone and papyrus from the Hellenistic period.


  • Presents over 150 sources in translation.
  • Captures the political, social, economic and religious dynamism of the Hellenistic kingdoms and cities.
  • Covers the entire Hellenistic world, with extensive coverage of the Ptolemaic kingdom.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roger S. Bagnall is Professor of Classics and History at Columbia University. He has edited numerous papyri and ostraka and his previous publications include Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (1995), The Demography of Roman Egypt (1994) and Egypt in Late Antiquity (1993).

Peter Derow is Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, Oxford and Lecturer in Ancient History in the University of Oxford. He has published on Hellenistic history and epigraphy and Roman republican history, and has a special interest in Polybius and dealings between Rome and the Greeks. He is co-editor with Robert Parker of Herodotus and his World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest (2003).

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Thousands of documents surviving on stone and papyrus help us to understand the complex society that took shape after the death of Alexander the Great. This book presents some of the most revealing of these documents in translation, allowing readers to form a direct impression of life in the Hellenistic world.

The book contains 175 documents capturing the political, social, economic, and religious dynamism of the Hellenistic kingdoms and cities. It covers the entire Hellenistic world and draws extensively on the papyrus remains of the Ptolemaic kingdom in Egypt, which allow an unequalled depth of insight into daily life at every level of society.

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Thousands of documents surviving on stone and papyrus help us to understand the complex society that took shape after the death of Alexander the Great. This book presents some of the most revealing of these documents in translation, allowing readers to form a direct impression of life in the Hellenistic world.

The book contains 175 documents capturing the political, social, economic, and religious dynamism of the Hellenistic kingdoms and cities. It covers the entire Hellenistic world and draws extensively on the papyrus remains of the Ptolemaic kingdom in Egypt, which allow an unequalled depth of insight into daily life at every level of society.

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1405101334
ISBN 13 
9781405101332
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
350
Herausgeber
Bagnall Roger S.
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