Foreign Ethnics in Hellenistic Egypt

Foreign Ethnics in Hellenistic Egypt
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Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 9042911956
ISBN-13 : 9789042911956
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Book Synopsis Foreign Ethnics in Hellenistic Egypt by : Csaba A. Láda

Download or read book Foreign Ethnics in Hellenistic Egypt written by Csaba A. Láda and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Ptolemies thousands of Greek-speaking foreigners were resident in Egypt: they were active in the armed forces, in the administration, in commerce. In official and notarial documents they are identified by their ethnic, i.e. their real or fictive origin outside Egypt. The present work provides a complete inventory of the ethnics, which refer to Greek city-states (e.g. 'Athenian', 'Syracusan'), but also to regions in Greece (e.g. 'Cretan', 'Thessalian') or elsewhere (e.g. 'Thracian', 'Jew'). The data are incorporated in the database of the Prosopographia Ptolemaica and offer a diversified view of the Greek presence in Egypt between 323 and 30 BC.


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