Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean World - Economy and Administration During the Reign of Hieron II

"This book investigates the royal administration of Hieron II (r. 269-215 BCE), the Syracusan monarch who leveraged Sicily's agricultural resources to build a flourishing kingdom that played an outsized role in the political and cultural affairs of the Western Mediterranean"--

List of contents

I. Fashioning a Kingdom; 1. From general to king; 2. Fashioning kingship; 3. Cities in the kingdom; II. Measuring a Kingdom; 4. Seeing the Hieronian state; 5. Standards and the state; 6. Monumental granaries; 7. The Hieronian mint; 8. Institutions and markets in Hieronian Sicily; Conclusion.

About the author

D. Alex Walthall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked for more than two decades in Sicily, much of which has been spent directing archaeological campaigns for the American Excavations at Morgantina. Prof. Walthall's research has been sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, the American Academy in Rome, and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation.

Summary

This book investigates the royal administration of Hieron II (r. 269-215 BCE), the Syracusan monarch who leveraged Sicily's agricultural resources to build a flourishing kingdom that played an outsized role in the political and cultural affairs of the Western Mediterranean.

Product details

• Authors: D Alex Walthall, D. Alex Walthall, D. Alex (University of Texas Walthall
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9781316511053
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51105-3
• No. of pages: 414
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ancient Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, European history: the Romans, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, c 500 BCE to c 1BCE, Syracuse, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents