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The Last Pharaohs : Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC /

The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs departs from previous studies by putting the Ptolemaic state firmly in the context of both Hellenistic and Egyptian hi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Manning, Joseph Gilbert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Egypt in the first millennium BC
  • The historical understanding of the Ptolemaic state
  • Moving beyond despotism, economic planning, and state banditry : Ptolemaic Egypt as a premodern state
  • Shaping a new state : the political economy of the Ptolemies
  • Creating a new economic order : economic life and economic policy under the Ptolemies
  • Order and law shaping the law in a new state
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix: The trial record of the property dispute held at the Temple of Wepwawet in Asyut, Upper Egypt, 170 BC, before the local laokritai-judges.