Books written by Sitta von Reden
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Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires: Integration, Communication, and Resistance
First comparative analysis of the role of local elites and populations in the formation of the two main Hellenistic empires.
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Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies: Volume 2: Local, Regional, and Imperial Economies
“Herod the Great: A Near Eastern case study in Roman-Parthian politics.” In J. M. Schlude and B. Reubin (eds.), Arsacids, Romans and local elites: Cross-cultural interactions of the Parthian Empire, 93–110. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
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Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens
The purpose of this collective 1998 volume is to re-evaluate the foundations of classical Athens' highly successful experiment in communal social existence.
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Money in Classical Antiquity
Louis Gernet, too, regarded 'substitution' and the reification of ideas in precious objects (agalmata) as an important conceptual step towards the notion of coined money. The mythical Golden Fleece, for example, a symbol of agrarian ...
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The Ancient Economy
2.9) In these two passages, both the (forced) liturgical spending of the wealthy and the expenditure of public funds on festivals and sacrifices are exposed as simply the private greed of individual poor citizens, conniving for money ...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy
Detailed introduction explaining how ancient Greek economies functioned, and why they were stable and successful over long periods of time.
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Money in Classical Antiquity
Horster, M. (2004) Landbesitz griechischer Heiligtumer in archaischer und klassischer Zeit. Leiden. Howgego, C. (1990) 'Why did ancient states strike coins?', NC 150: 1-25. (1992) 'The supply and use of money in the Roman world: 200 BC ...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy
Fachard, S. and Pirisino, D. (2015) “Routes out of Attica,” in Autopsy in Athens: Recent Archaeological Research on Athens and Attica, ed. M. M. Miles. Oxford, 139–53. Faraguna, M. (2012) “Pistis and Apistia: aspects of the development ...
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Stiftungen zwischen Politik und Wirtschaft: Geschichte und Gegenwart im Dialog
... Bürgertum in Leipzig von 1891 bis 1938. London/Tübingen 2001; Julia Laura Rischbieter, Henriette Hertz. Mäzenin und ... Stiftungsstadt und Bürgertum. Hamburgs Stiftungskultur vom Kaiserreich bis in den Nationalsozialismus. München 2011 ...
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Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies: Volume 3: Frontier-Zone Processes and Transimperial Exchange
... caravan transport : Animal performance and archaeological evidence from the Egyptian Sahara . " In P. B. Clarkson and C. G. Santoro ( eds . ) , Caravans in socio- cultural perspective : Past and present , 145-173 . New York , NY ...
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Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies: Volume 3: Frontier-Zone Processes and Transimperial Exchange
... Chinese southern frontier in the fifth and sixth centuries . ” In J. Anderson and J. Whitmore ( eds . ) , China's encounters on the south and southwest : Reforging the fiery frontier over the two millennia , 59-77 . Leiden : Brill ...
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Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires: Integration, Communication, and Resistance
... Seleucids in around 170. In Egypt, political circumstances different from those in the Seleucid empire gave rise to specific changes. Ptolemy VI Philometor (186/180–145 bc), son of his predecessor Ptolemy V, also was a small child when ...