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Gebundenes Buch

The Hellenistic Period

Historical Sources in Translation

Herausgeber: Bagnall, Roger S; Derow, Peter

Beschreibung

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.

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 859g
• ISBN-13: 9781405101325
• ISBN-10: 1405101326
• Artikelnr.: 22193424

Rezensionen

"For any reader, this book will provide an illuminating, reliableand accessible resource. Its clarity of style, meticulous attentionto detial, and sensitivity to current bibliography provide a modelthat should be emulated by other scholars contemplating thecreation of their own sourcebooks...it is quite simply difficult tofind fault with this book." Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"This collection is a model of meticulous scholarship andexcellent judgement. I read it with great pleasure and greatrespect." Dr John Ma, Corpus Christi College, Universityof Oxford