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Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century AD Egypt|Dominic W. Rathbone

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

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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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  • ISBN-13: 9780521401494
  • ISBN-10: 0521401496
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: September 1991
  • Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.74 pounds
  • Page Count: 512

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