Hellenistic and Roman Egypt

Hellenistic and Roman Egypt

Sources and Approaches

Bagnall, Roger S.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

07/2006

352

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Inglês

9780754659068

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Covering Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt, this work deals with issues of historical and papyrological method: the restoration of papyrus texts, the direction of archaeological work in Egypt, economic models for Roman Egypt, the usefulness of postcolonial theory, and approaches to the literary tradition for the Library of Alexandria.
Contents: Preface. Questions of Method: Archaeological work on Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, 1995-2000; Restoring the text of documents; Evidence and models for the economy of Roman Egypt. Hellenistic Egypt: The date of the foundation of Alexandria; Papyrology and Ptolemaic history: 1956-1980; Decolonizing Ptolemaic Egypt; Archagathos son of Agathocles, Epistates of Libya; The origins of Ptolemaic Cleruchs; Alexandria: library of dreams; Dioskourides: three rolls; An unrecognized date by the rebellion of 131 B.C. Roman Egypt: Publius Petronius, Augustan prefect of Egypt; The beginnings of the Roman census in Egypt; The people of the Roman Fayum; Egypt and the Lex Minicia; A trick a day to keep the tax man at bay? The prostitute tax in Roman Egypt; Managing estates in Roman Egypt: a review article; Army and police in Roman Upper Egypt. Late Antiquity: Public administration and the documentation of Roman Panopolis; The date of the Hermopolite land registers: a review article; Les lettres privees des femmes: un choix de langue en A0/00gypte byzantine; Monks and property: rhetoric, law, and patronage in the Apophthegmata Patrum and the Papyri; Women's petitions in late antique Egypt; Greek papyri and Coptic studies, 1990-1995. Index.
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