The Seleukid royal economy : the finances and financial administration of the Seleukid empire /
This book examines the royal economy of the Seleukid Empire, the principal successor-state to the empire of Alexander the Greek. This wide-ranging economic study shows how rulers exploited resources to finance their administrations. Adopting a highly original numerical approach, the book presents a...
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Ancient Greek
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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Call Number: DS96 .A64 2004
Table of Contents:
- •Part I. Preliminaries •1. Sources and methods •2. Historical summary •3. The posing of a problem •Part II. The Underlying Economy •4. Geography and population •5. Production and exchange •6. The granting of land •Part III. The Royal Economy •7. Ps-Aristotle's Oikonomika, book II •8. Revenue •9. The handling of surpluses •10. Expenditure •11. Coinage •12. A model of the Seleukid economy •13. Financial administration •General conclusions