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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المؤلف الرئيسي: Aperghis, G. G. (مؤلف)

التنسيق: كتاب

اللغة: English
Ancient Greek

منشور في: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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الوسوم: إضافة وسم

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رقم الطلب: DS96 .A64 2004

جدول المحتويات:
  • •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