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Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt: Volume 1 (Cambridge Classical Studies) Book

Important study of the economic and social history of Ptolemaic Egypt, based on the salt-tax registers of P. Count.Read More

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    Willy Clarysse, Dorothy J. Thompson

  • Book Description

    How in Egypt does a new dynasty deal with the problems of establishing rule in a country with a long history of developed administration? This is the central question informing the historical studies of Volume II based on early Hellenistic taxation registers surviving on papyrus, which are published in Volume I. New light is shed on the taxation system, the occupational and demographic breakdown of the population, and relations between Greeks and Egyptians. Other topics discussed include their differing household patterns, stockholding, gender relations, and childrearing.

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    How did a new Egyptian dynasty cope with the problems of establishing rule in a country with a long history of developed administration? This volume publishes fifty-four Ptolemaic papyri from the Fayum and Middle Egypt, with English translations and extensive commentaries. Dating from c. 250-150 BC and written in either Greek or Egyptian demotic, the texts record lists of adults, arranged by village, occupation and social group, and by household, together with the taxes paid on their persons, their livestock and trades. Volume I provides the documentary basis for the historical studies of Volume II, enabling it to reveal much about Hellenistic Egypt's taxation system, the occupational and demographic breakdown of the population, and relations between Greeks and Egyptians.

  • 0521124875
  • 9780521124874
  • Willy Clarysse, Dorothy J. Thompson
  • 10 December 2009
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 724
  • 1
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