The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia: Money, Culture, and State Power

ISBN-13: 9781316510599 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 300 str.

Noah Kaye

Opis

Reveals how the empire of Attalid Pergamon dominated the Hellenistic world by controlling culture and identity through its fiscal system.

Recenzje

'This brilliant study is a very rare bird that combines the study of economic and administrative history with the history of culture and identity. … this is a highly stimulating book, which deserves to be read attentively by very many different audiences.' Kostas Vlassopoulos, Greece and Rome

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Eating with the tax-collectors; 2. The skeleton of the state; 3. The king's money; 4. Cities and other civic organisms; 5. Hastening to the gymnasium; 6. Pergamene panhellenism; Conclusion; Appendix of Epigraphical Documents.