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Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt: Volume 2, Historical Studies - Studies Historical Studie

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Informationen zum Autor Willy Clarysse is a Fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and teaches in the Departments of Classics and the Ancient Near East at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is the author of Prosopographia Ptolemaica IX! Addenda et corrigenda au volume III (1981)! The Petrie Papyri (second edition)! I. The Wills (1991) and of the Leuven Database of Ancient Books (htpp://ldab.arts.kuleuven.ac.be). Dorothy J. Thompson! a Fellow of the British Academy! teaches ancient history in the University of Cambridge where she is Isaac Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics and a Fellow of Girton College. She is the author of Memphis under the Ptolemies (1988). Klappentext How in Egypt does a new dynasty deal with the problems of establishing rule in a country with a long history of developed administration? This is the central question informing the historical studies of Volume II based on early Hellenistic taxation registers surviving on papyrus! which are published in Volume I. New light is shed on the taxation system! the occupational and demographic breakdown of the population! and relations between Greeks and Egyptians. Other topics discussed include their differing household patterns! stockholding! gender relations! and childrearing. Zusammenfassung This book consists of two closely related parts. Volume I publishes fifty-four Ptolemaic papyri from the Fayum and Middle Egypt! with English translations and extensive commentaries. Volume II uses these texts! created for purposes of taxation! to provide historical studies analysing fundamental aspects of Ptolemaic Egypt. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Ptolemies, taxes and papyri; 2. The census; 3. The salt-tax and other taxes; 4. Settlement in the Fayum; 5. The people counted; 6. Counting the animals; 7. Family matters; 8. Naming the people; 9. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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