Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms /

Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms /

Through new readings and interpretation of Cypriot inscriptions - written in Cypriot-syllabic Greek, Eteocypriot, Phoenician, and alphabetic Greek - Kypriōn Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms is the first book which reconstructs in detail the po...

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Main Author: Pestarino, Beatrice (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 459.

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History, Ancient.
History, Ancient > Historiography.
History.

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Call Number: D59

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Cypriot Chronology and Main Centres
  • Introduction: In Search of the Lost Kypriōn Politeia
  • 1 Nomina nuda
  • 2 Basic Concepts
  • 3 The Development of the Cypriot City-Kingdoms
  • 4 Historiography
  • 5 Epigraphic Sources: The Languages of Cyprus
  • 1 Setting the Scene: King, Elite and People
  • 1 The Persistence of Kingship and Royal Ideology
  • 2 The Elite and the Wanaktes
  • 3 Schooling the Elite, Cypriot Education and Political Leadership
  • 4 A Cypriot Secret Police
  • 5 Δῆμος and πόλις in the Cypriot City-Kingdoms
  • 5 'I Do Solemnly Swear ...': An Oath of Allegiance as Testimony of Cypriot Royal Supremacy
  • 2 The Idalion Bronze Tablet: Cypriot Political and Administrative Institutions in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC
  • 1 Establishing the Chronology
  • 2 The Eponymous Magistrate and the Polis: Institutional Representatives beyond the King
  • 3 Territories, Land-Registers and Legal Owners in the Cypriot City-States
  • 4 The Cypriot Land of the King
  • 3 The Administration of the Central Palace
  • 1 The Rab Soferim, Chief of Scribes, and His Staff in Kition
  • 2 RB ḤZ'NM and RB SRSRM, Other Palace Officials?
  • 4 The Role of Carians and Their 'Interpreter' in the Kition Administration
  • 1 The Cypriot Epigraphic Attestations of KRSY and MLṢ (H)KRSYM
  • 2 The KRSYM in the Mediterranean and Near East
  • 3 Carians in Cyprus
  • 4 The MLṢ HKRSYM, Not Only an Interpreter
  • 5 Administrative Officials on the Periphery of the Cypriot City-States: The Bulwer Tablet
  • 6 Religious-Civil Officials between the Centre and Periphery in Cypriot Syllabic Greek and Phoenician Inscriptions
  • 1 Hunting for Wolves: A Civic-Religious Magistracy in the Central Administration of Paphos
  • 2 Civic-Religious Governors in the Peripheral Territory of the City-States, the Cases of Paphos and Lapethos
  • Conclusion: The Kypriōn Politeia Regained
  • 1 The Consistency of the Cypriot Administrative System
  • 2 The Development of the Classical Cypriot Political System between Achaemenid and Greek Influences
  • Appendix
  • Plates
  • Bibliography
  • Index.