The Hellenistic Period Historical Sources in

Thousands of documents surviving on stone and papyrus help us to understand the complex society that took shape after the death of Alexander the Great. This book presents some of the most revealing of these documents in translation, allowing readers to form a direct impression of life in the Hellenistic world. The book contains 175 documents capturing the political, social, economic, and religious dynamism of the Hellenistic kingdoms and cities. It covers the entire Hellenistic world and draws extensively on the papyrus remains of the Ptolemaic kingdom in Egypt, which allow an unequalled depth of insight into daily life at every level of society

Roger S. Bagnall is Professor of Classics and History at Columbia University. He has edited numerous papyri and ostraka and his previous publications include Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (1995), The Demography of Roman Egypt (1994) and Egypt in Late Antiquity (1993).

Peter Derow is Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, Oxford and Lecturer in Ancient History in the University of Oxford. He has published on Hellenistic history and epigraphy and Roman republican history, and has a special interest in Polybius and dealings between Rome and the Greeks. He is co-editor with Robert Parker of Herodotus and his World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest (2003).

Table of Documents

ix

List of Illustrations

xv

Preface

xvii

Note on Editorial Practice

xxi

Abbreviations

xxii

Note on Reading Documents

xxiv

The Texts

1

(284)

I Political History

1

(110)

II The Foreign Possessions of the Ptolemies

111

(8)

III Life in Greek Cities

119

(25)

IV The Bureaucracy of Ptolemaic Egypt

144

(19)

V The Royal Economy of Egypt

163

(36)

VI The Military and Police of Ptolemaic Egypt

199

(7)

VII The Ptolemaic Legal and Judicial System

206

(23)

VIII Social Relations and Private Life

229

(18)

IX Religion

247

(38)

Appendix: Ptolemaic Administration

285

(4)

Tables and Charts

289

(4)

I Ptolemaic Kings

289

(1)

II Seleucid Kings to 96 BC

290

(1)

III Antigonid Kings

290

(1)

IV Attalid Rulers

291

(1)

V Months

291

(1)

VI Currency

292

(1)

Glossary and Index of Greek Terms

293

(8)

Concordance: Papyri

301

(4)

Concordance: Inscriptions

305

(4)

Concordance between Editions

309

(2)

Index of Persons, Places and Subjects

311

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The Hellenistic Period Historical Sources in Translation

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