Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt 2 Volume Hardback Set - Couverture rigide

Willy Clarysse; Dorothy Thompson

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521839335 ISBN 13 : 9780521839334

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2006

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book consists of two closely related parts. Volume I publishes fifty-four Greek and Egyptian demotic papyri which derive from census and tax activities in Egypt of the third and second centuries BC. Volume II is an historical study, using these texts to analyse fundamental aspects of Ptolemaic Egypt. The salt-tax registers of P. Count. make possible an assessment of the fiscal policy of the new Macedonian pharaohs and an analysis of the population make-up in both ethnic and occupational terms. A demographic analysis of this material exploits the best information for family and household structure for the Western world before the fifteenth century. A constant theme throughout is the impact of the Greeks on the native population of Egypt. This is traced, for example, in cultural policies, in administrative geography, in the realm of stock-rearing and in the changing religious affiliations traceable through the names that parents gave their children.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Willy Clarysse is a Fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and teaches in the Departments of Classics and the Ancient Near East at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is the author of Prosopographia Ptolemaica IX, Addenda et corrigenda au volume III (1981), The Petrie Papyri (second edition), I. The Wills (1991) and of the Leuven Database of Ancient Books (htpp://ldab.arts.kuleuven.ac.be).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521839335
• ISBN 13: 9780521839334
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1056