This book examines how the various groups of people of which the polis of Classical Athens was composed got on together--or failed to do so. The authors collectively bring out what was distinctive about life in an ancient Greek city that was unusual both in its size and social complexity and in the extent of the democracy it practiced. The emphasis is broadly on the great success of the Athenians' communal experiment but tensions and fissures arising from religious, sexual, economic and political differences are not elided or glossed over.

This book explores the impact of Alexander the Great's introduction of coined money on the economy and society of Egypt and its political implications for the formation of the Ptolemaic state. It argues that the introduction of coinage happened slowly, spreading gradually from Alexandria into the chora. Under Ptolemy II, however, Egypt was aggressively monetised. Using both numismatic and papyrological evidence, the workings of a rural monetary economy are reconstructed where coinage was in high demand, but in short supply. It is argued that by the middle of the third century BC Egypt was...

Die Bande der neuen Reihe "Enzyklopadie der griechisch-romischen Antike" (EGRA) werden u.a. die Themen Gesellschaft, Familie, Geschlechterverhaltnisse, Politik, Wirtschaft, Religion und Militar behandeln. Ihre Konzeption entspricht der aus den Reihen OGG und EdG bekannten Dreigliederung: Einem historischen Uberblick folgen eine ausfuhrliche, vergangene und aktuelle Kontroversen analysierende Dokumentation der Forschung sowie eine thematisch gegliederte Bibliographie. Damit soll Studierenden, Lehrenden an Schule und Hochschule sowie interdisziplinar interessierten Wissenschaftlerinnen und...