The last pharaohs : Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC /

The last pharaohs : Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC /

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Main Author: Manning, Joseph Gilbert (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.

Subjects:

Ptolemaic dynasty, > 305-30 B.C.
Pharaohs > History.
State, The > History.
Egypt > Economic conditions > 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Egypt > Politics and government > 332-30 B.C.

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Call Number: DT92 .M36 2010

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.