The Last Pharaohs : : Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC / / J. G. Manning.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Manning, J. G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 8 halftones. 7 line illus. 2 tables. 1 map.

The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs radically from previous studies by putting the Ptol...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1. Egypt in the First Millennium BC
• CHAPTER 2. The Historical Understanding of the Ptolemaic State
• CHAPTER 3. Moving beyond Despotism, Economic Planning, and State Banditry
• CHAPTER 4. Shaping a New State
• CHAPTER 5. Creating a New Economic Order Economic Life and Economic Policy under the Ptolemies
• CHAPTER 6. Order and Law Shaping the Law in a New State
• CHAPTER 7. Conclusions
• APPENDIX. The Trial Record of the Property Dispute Held at the Temple of Wepwawet in Asyut, Upper Egypt, 170 BC before the Local Laokritai-judges
• Bibliography
• Index
• Index of Sources