| Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt 2 Volume Hardback Set Contributor(s): Clarysse, Willy (Author), Thompson, Dorothy J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521839335 ISBN-13: 9780521839334 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $304.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: 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 analyze 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General |
| Dewey: 304.609 |
| Series: Cambridge Classical Studies |
| Physical Information: 3" H x 7.1" W x 10.1" (5.55 lbs) 1056 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
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Contributor Bio(s): Clarysse, Willy: - 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).Thompson, Dorothy J.: - Dorothy J. Thompson, a Fellow of the British Academy, teaches ancient history in the University of Cambridge where she is Isaac Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics and a Fellow of Girton College. She is the author of Memphis under the Ptolemies (1988). |