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Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century AD Egypt: The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate

Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century AD Egypt: The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Classical Studies

EconomicsAncient EgyptAncient Rome

ISBN10: 0521401496
ISBN13: 9780521401494
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 12 1991
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.74
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
This book reconstructs the life and workings of a large private estate in Egypt under Roman rule in the third century AD, on the basis of hundreds of surviving letters and accounts written on papyrus. Topics include the social and economic position of the estate's owners, managers and workforce, its production and marketing of crops and its system of accounting, which is the most sophisticated yet known from the ancient world, and challenges the common belief that economic thought and practice were uniformly primitive in the ancient world. The second section of the book includes the Heroninos archive in both the Greek texts and English translation, which will prove an invaluable reference source for historians of Egypt under Roman rule.

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