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Journal articles on the topic "Hellenistic administration"
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Nikolaos Papazarkadas. "Judicial and Financial Administration in Late Hellenistic Athens: A New Decree of the Athenian Council." Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 86, no. 2 (2017): 325. http://dx.doi.org/10.2972/hesperia.86.2.0325.
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Vitale, Marco. "‘Priest’—‘Eparchy-arch’—‘Speaker of the ethnos’." Mnemosyne 69, no. 1 (January 26, 2016): 82–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-12341727.
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In the Roman Eastern provinces, the concept and rituals of a province-wide imperial cult were based on a pre-existing tradition of Hellenistic ruler’s divinization and worship. But its formal mise en place was conformed to the new territorial framework of Roman administration: a gubernatorial provincia/ἐπαρχεία appears subdivided into several administrative sub-provinces that were likewise called provinciae/ἐπαρχεῖαι. The cities of almost all known eparchies in terms of sub-provinces formed koina responsible for the provincial imperial cult and the political representation of the provincials headed by priestly officials, such as bithyniarchai or ‘(high-)priests of the eparchy/-ies’, whose titles refer explicitly to the represented sub-province. The correlation between these koina and Roman territorial administration from almost all Eastern provinces demands more political functions of the koinon-officials than only priestly ones, as shown by the frequently combined titulatures.
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TUORI, KAIUS. "GREEK TYRANNY AND ROMAN EMPERORS DURING THE SEVERAN PERIOD: A CASE STUDY OF P. COL. 123 AND SEG XVII 759." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 55, no. 2 (December 1, 2012): 111–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2012.00046.x.
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Abstract Greek and Hellenistic models were central to the formulation of the position and capabilities in law of the Roman Emperor during the Principate. The purpose of this article is to argue that the ideological response to Greek tyranny by Roman authors and the impact of the narrative tradition on tyrants both influenced what the Emperors could do and what was expected of them. Through the narrative tradition which existed on tyranny in the ancient world, Roman Emperors were presented with modes of behaviour on how the interplay and the relationship between the ruler and the ruled took place. Through the examples of the Columbia papyrus and the Goharian inscription, I will argue that the Roman situation was quite unique in the combination of approachability and the practical administration of justice. These examples show how the Emperor was not simply a benevolent monarch but also, if necessary, a strict magistrate.
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Ismard, Paulin. "The Single Body of the City: Public Slaves and the Question of the Greek State." Annales (English ed.) 69, no. 03 (September 2014): 503–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s239856820000087x.
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AbstractsPublic slavery was an institution common to most Greek cities during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Whether they worked on the city’s major construction sites, performed minor duties in its civic administration or filled the ranks of its police force (the famous Scythian archers of classical Athens), public slaves may be said to have constituted the first public servants known to Greek cities. Studying them from this perspective can shed new light on the long-running debate about the degree to which thepolisfunctioned as a state. Direct democracy, in the Classical Athenian sense, implied that all political prerogatives be held by the citizens themselves, and not by any kind of state apparatus. The decision to delegate administrative tasks to slaves can thus be understood as a “resistance” (as defined by the French anthropologist Pierre Clastres) on the part of the civic society to the development of this apparatus.
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Allam, Schafik. "Regarding the Eisagogeus (εισαγωευς) At Ptolemaic Law Courts." Journal of Egyptian History 1, no. 1 (2008): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187416608784118802.
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AbstractIn viewing the documents relative to the Ptolemaic jurisdiction we come across an official with a title transcribed into Demotic, but which apparently corresponds to the Greek designation εισαγωευς. This official is mentioned in conjunction with judicial proceedings. His functions were to introduce cases before the judges and to take actions in concert with them; and his bailiff was empowered to enforce judicial decisions. Since the eisagogeus represented the central administration, we may postulate that he was regarded as a royal functionary acting as a liaison man with the law courts. My concern is to point out an official in the pre-Ptolemaic administration who had to play the same role. In the judicial machine of Pharaonic times many a scribe played an active part, not only in writing down the records. In reality he used to act in legal proceedings from start to finish. In grave situations he had to communicate directly with the highest office in the State (that of the vizier); and even at the great council (qnbt) held by the vizier, the scribe officiated sometimes as prosecutor. We come to the conclusion that it is likely that the position of the Hellenistic eisagogeus was no more than the continuation of a much older Pharaonic institution.
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Domínguez, Adolfo J. "Not Only “invincible in arms, a glorious warrior” (Plut. Pyrrh. 11.8). Pyrrhus and the Administration of the Epirote Kingdom." Klio 104, no. 2 (November 17, 2022): 550–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/klio-2021-0033.
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Summary In relation to King Pyrrhus of Epirus, a great number of studies have analysed his different military campaigns, but very few have focused on the political and economic aspects of his reign. Based on a series of references taken from literary accounts, we seek to demonstrate how the internal organisation of the Kingdom of Epirus under Pyrrhus was similar to that of other contemporaneous Hellenistic kingdoms, replete with a Court consisting of a large number of the king’s friends and companions. Using certain archaeological evidence, especially funerary remains, we seek to reflect the existence of this Epirote élite in material terms. The literary tradition bears witness to an interest in agriculture and livestock farming during Pyrrhus’ period, although the accounts handed down to us provide little detail. Once again, archaeology enables us to provide corroborating evidence. In this respect, we focus on the existence of a series of fortified rural residences distributed in irregular manner throughout Epirote territory, which are interpreted as being those of the members of this aristocratic élite, who used these fortified enclosures as centres of exploitation for their lands and as symbols of their power and prestige. As comparative points of reference that enable us to understand these processes, we provide various examples from neighbouring Macedonia, a kingdom with which Epirus maintained close links, especially as of the mid-fourth century B.C., which appears to be the period in which many of these new developments also began to emerge in Epirus, reaching their culmination during the reign of Pyrrhus.
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Foss, Clive. "Strobilos and Related Sites." Anatolian Studies 38 (December 1988): 147–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3642848.
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In the Byzantine period, urban life in Anatolia underwent a decay in which ancient cities shrank behind reduced circuits of walls or withdrew to the fortified hilltops whence they had descended in the Hellenistic age. Even the greatest city of the empire, Constantinople, saw a drastic diminution of population and resources, abandonment of its ancient public works and services, and consequent transformation from a classical to a medieval city. These changes began with the devastating invasions of Persians and Arabs in the seventh century. Sources reveal little about Anatolia between the early seventh and mid-ninth century, a true dark age, but the evidence of archaeology often makes it possible to visualize conditions at the time.The Byzantines, whose empire long survived these troubles, generally occupied existing sites in Asia Minor where their ruins are superimposed on those of the Romans or earlier cultures. In only a few instances, usually occasioned by the needs of defence or of a militarized administration, were new sites founded. Although the Dark Ages were not a propitious time for urban development, some new towns did come into existence or prominence. Few of them have been studied. Strobilos on the Carian coast, therefore, is of some potential interest as an example of a Byzantine town which first appears in the historical record in the eighth century, and whose remains have been preserved.
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MANNING, J. G. "(L.) Mooren (ed.) Politics, Administration and Society in the Hellenistic and Roman World. Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Bertinoro 19–24 July 1997. (Studia Hellenistica 36.) Pp. xxii + 514, ills, maps. Leuven: Peeters, 2000. Cased, €97. ISBN: 978-90-429-0994-6." Classical Review 57, no. 1 (February 6, 2007): 158–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009840x06003696.
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Тарханова, С. В. "FOUNDATIONS OF ROMAN STRUCTURES AND SPOLIA IN EARLY BYZANTINE CHURCHES AND MEDIEVAL MOSQUES AT TEL SHILO (SAMARIA)." ВОПРОСЫ ВСЕОБЩЕЙ ИСТОРИИ АРХИТЕКТУРЫ, no. 2(11) (February 17, 2020): 18–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.25995/niitiag.2019.11.2.002.
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Представляемое здесь исследование посвящено элементам архитектурного декора (базы, колонны, капители, перемычки, детали алтарных преград, декоративные рельефы, др.), которые были найдены в памятниках теля Шило в первичном (in situ), вторичном, третичном использовании или вне архитектурного контекста. Малая часть из них кратко опубликована, но большая их часть никогда не публиковалась и не анализировалась. Основная часть исследования включает в себя каталогизирование объектов, их обмеры, стилистический анализ и атрибуцию с предположительными датировками (данные работы уже частично проведены автором, материал неоднократно изучался натурно). Но прежде необходимо уточнить топографические особенности римского города, остатки ранних строений, дорог, из которых могли происходить детали, расположение ранневизантийских церквей с ориентацией на уже существующий контекст, чему и посвящена данная статья. Таким образом, здесь характеризуется эллинистический, римский контекст города, с последовательно вписанным в него ранневизантийским и раннеисламским, что до сих пор делалось лишь кратко и неполно. The present research is devoted to reporting on the recovery of architectural fragments in the Roman and Byzantine periods (bases, pedestals, shafts, capitals, lintels, chancel screen elements, decorative reliefs, etc.). They were found at the monuments of Tel Shilo in situ, in secondary, in tertiary use or out of the architectural context. Only a small part of them was published as part of the general reports on the excavations at Tel Shilo, which were conducted by Swedish and American expeditions and in the framework of regular works of the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria (Dr. Aage Shmidt, Hans Kjær, Sven Holm-Nilsen, Marie-Louise Buhl, Flemming Gorm Andersen, Hananya Hizmi, Reut Livyatan ben Arie, Yodan Fleitman, et al.). Most of them (especially the fragments at the Basilica church, which I consider mainly Roman spolia) weren’t published or ever analyzed, except in some very general works and in general photographs. Besides, several architectural fragments were found during the last years of the excavations. The main section of the research includes a catalog of the objects, their measurements, stylistic analysis, attribution with preliminary dating. This work was accomplished in part and is still ongoing. The objects were examined at the site, photographed against the scale, and measured. But before proceeding to this main part of the research, it is necessary to outline and to present the main Roman and Early Byzantine architectural context at Tel Shilo. It is impossible to discover the original derivation, function, actual date and style of the details without characterization of the monuments, for which they may have been originally executed. Thus, the present article is devoted mainly to the architectural context of the town, which is divided into three main periods with sub-phases: Late Hellenistic and Roman decumani with several smaller in their scale cardines, their rebuilding during the Late Roman period (enlarging of the western colonnade of decumanus in front of cardo), tower on the outer edges of the settlement; Early Byzantine Northern churches, baptistery and Basilica church, which were, by my theory, inserted into the earlier system of roads with the use of their foundations, stylobate and members (though plenty of Roman spolia were reused, liturgical furniture was especially imported for the churches); and finally - Early Islamic mosques (Jami’ al Yetin, Jami’ Arbain, Jami’ es-Sittin), that were built on the place of the churches and inside the Roman tower with the use of all their elements (it seems that no special decorative elements were executed for mosques). It was done only in a brief and fragmentary manner before, without general systematization. The preliminary attempt to coordinate the known architectural details to their original architectural context is also presented here.
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Tešan, Jesenko, and Joan Davison. "Byzantine spirit of the Undead and its legacy in the Sick Man of Europe." Review of Nationalities 8, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pn-2018-0002.
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Abstract This paper examines the source and consequences of permanent liminality in the political-legal administration of the Byzantine Empire. The paper argues ambiguous and incomplete identities of individuals, groups, and society associated with certain authoritarian political arrangements and consequent arrested liminal period(s) contributed to the decline of the Empire. Further, and significantly, the unresolved situation of disaggregated identity, or spirited away demos, persisted in the Ottoman Era and continues to infect contemporary socio-political affairs in regions in the Balkans and other countries of the former Soviet Union which now seek to balance the interests of a nation-state with the diversity of Europe. The paper does not consider the Orthodox Spirit, but rather analyzes the role of pseudo-intellectuals and sophists who derail the democratic and philosophical Hellenist traditions with authoritarian policies and tools. The research compares and links the institutional attempts of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires to manage and manipulate differences and distinctions through mechanisms such as theatricalization and the millets. The argument concludes that these strategies created the basis for the perpetualization of the sick man of Europe to the extent they focused on juggling the distinctions and identities of the empires rather than pursuing the development of the democratic self. Thus, in liminality is revealed and contained undead and viral authoritarian spirits, sometimes manifested in populist or extremist ethnic leaders, whose technologies trick the demos and disrupt the democratic imagination.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Hellenistic administration"
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Stone, Peter J. ""Provincial" Perspectives: The Persian, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid Administrative Center at Tel Kedesh, Israel, in a Regional Context." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342105580.
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Mesnil, Charlie. "La logistique des armées hellénistiques." Thesis, Lille 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL30035.
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L’usage du terme « logistique » dans son sens militaire est relativement récent dans l’historiographie de la guerre (il date essentiellement de quelques dizaines d’années) et le mot est complexe à définir. S’intéresser à la logistique militaire, c’est non seulement s’intéresser au ravitaillement de l’armée, mais aussi à ses déplacements, son équipement, son logement et son service sanitaire. Des sujets qui sont donc à la fois variés et très différents les uns des autres et pour lesquels les sources ne sont pas toujours satisfaisantes. Le monde hellénistique que nous étudions s’étend de Marseille à Aï Khanoum (Afghanistan) et comprend à la fois les royaumes et les cités. Les espaces concernés influencèrent les choix stratégiques des généraux. L’impact qu’eut la logistique militaire dans l’issue des conflits militaires hellénistiques est difficile à évaluer et peut aller de négligeable à déterminant. Mais la logistique militaire ne se résume pas à l’influence de celles-ci dans les guerres et aborde aussi des questions économiques et socialesThe use of the term "logistics" in its military sense is relatively recent in the historiography of war (it dates essentially from a few decades) and the word is complex to define. To be interested in military logistics isn’t only to be interested in supplying the army, but also in its transport, equipment, housing and sanitary services. These subjects are therefore at the same time varied and very different from each other and the sources aren’t always sufficient. The Hellenistic world we are studying extends from Marseille to Ai Khanoum (Afghanistan) and includes both kingdoms and cities. The spaces concerned influenced the strategic choices of the generals. The impact of military logistics on the outcome of Hellenistic military conflicts is difficult to evaluate and can range from negligible to decisive. Military logistics, however, aren’t limited to their influence in wars, but also concern economic and social issues
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Piguet, Emilie. "Culte et sanctuaires d'Asclépios dans les îles Egéennes et dans les cités côtières d'Asie Mineure (IV° s. a. C. - III° s. ap. C.)." Thesis, Besançon, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012BESA1038.
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Aucune région du monde gréco-romain n’est véritablement restée à l’écart de ladiffusion du culte d’Asclépios, au point qu’au IIe s. p.C., on ne dénombre pas moins de 320Asclepieia. A partir du IVe s. a.C. – ou du moins c’est à ce moment que nous en avons destraces effectives – et pendant toute l’époque hellénistique, le culte se propage notamment dansle monde insulaire et dans les cités côtières d’Asie Mineure, ce qui donne lieu à laconstruction de complexes parmi les plus célèbres du monde antique (Cos, Pergame, Lébèna),mais aussi une foule de sanctuaires moins importants dont l’influence est restéeessentiellement locale ou régionale. Notre thèse porte donc sur l’étude du culte et dessanctuaires d’Asclépios dans les îles égéennes et sur les côtes occidentales de l’Asie Mineureà l’époque hellénistique et au Haut-Empire romain, essentiellement à partir de ladocumentation épigraphique. Plusieurs thèmes de recherche sont développés : notamment lesétapes de la diffusion et l’origine du culte d’Asclépios ; le rôle économique, politique et socialet la gestion des sanctuaires ; le dieu (épiclèses, fonctions, famille mythique, relations avec lessouverains hellénistiques et les empereurs) et son culte (modalités et actes constitutifs) ; lepersonnel religieux, les individus et les groupes sociaux fréquentant les sanctuaires ; lesmotifs pour lesquels ces centres furent des lieux de « pèlerinage » célèbres et enfin lesinteractions entre savoirs médicaux profanes et puissance divine de guérisonNo region of the Greco-Roman world really stayed away from the distribution ofAsclepius’ cult, to the point that in IIth s p.C., we count not less than 320 Asclepieia. FromIVth s a.C. - or at least this is when we have it effective tracks - and during all the Hellenisticperiod, the cult propagates in the Aegean islands and in the coastal cities of Asia Minor. Inthis time, the complexes among the most famous of the antique world (Kos, Pergamon,Lebena) are built, as well as of numerous less important sanctuaries the influence of whichremained essentially local or regional. In our thesis, we study the Asclepius' cult and hissanctuaries in the Aegean islands and on the western coast of Asia Minor in the Hellenisticand Roman times, essentially from the epigraphic documentation. Several themes aredeveloped : the stages of the distribution and the origin of Asclepius' cult ; the economic,political and social role and the management of sanctuaries ; the god (epithets, functions,mythical family, relations with the Hellenistic sovereigns and the emperors) and his cult ; theclergy, the individuals and the social groups frequenting sanctuaries ; the motives for whichthese centers were famous places of "pilgrimage" and the interactions between profanemedical knowledges and divine power of healing
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Marre, Sébastien. "Phylétika : divisions et subdivisions civiques en Ionie, en Carie, à Rhodes et dans les îles proches du continent de la mort d'Alexandre le Grand à l'arrivée des Romains." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BOR30029/document.
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La recherche doit d’abord étudier les divisions et subdivisions civiques en Ionie, en Carie, à Rhodes et dans les îles proches du continent à l’époque hellénistique et montrer les évolutions entre la période antérieure à Alexandre et les débuts de la domination romaine. Dans le monde grec, les citoyens étaient répartis en grands groupes héréditaires : les tribus (phylai) et les phratries (phratriai). Ces institutions représentaient le fondement de l’organisation politique. La recherche doit montrer ensuite si la parenté joue encore un rôle dans la répartition des divisions et subdivisions civiques dans les cités d’Asie Mineure de l’époque hellénistique puisque le principe d’affiliation héréditaire semble avoir été la règle, l’affiliation en fonction de la résidence étant semble-t-il un phénomène assez tardif. Les membres de ces tribus considèrent qu’ils descendent d’un ancêtre commun, le plus souvent mythique. Leurs subdivisions sont souvent des phratries qui sont des associations qui regroupent plusieurs familles considérées par ses membres comme apparentées. Il s’agit enfin de montrer les ressemblances et les différences en ce qui concerne les divisions et les subdivisions civiques dans les différentes cités d’Asie Mineure occidentale à l’époque hellénistique. On peut étudier ainsi comment fonctionne le statut de citoyenneté en fonction de l’appartenance aux corps civiques. On peut également se demander comment se fait l’exercice des droits de citoyen, probablement différent d’une cité à l’autre et qui doit même évoluer au cours de la période considérée. Cette étude doit faire la part entre ce qui relève du rôle des divisions et subdivisions civiques dans le fonctionnement des cités et ce qui concerne uniquement l’organisation interne de ces institutions en tant que structures politiquesResearch has first to study civil divisions and subdivisions in Western Asian Minor cities at Hellenistic times and then show the changes between the pre-Alexander time and the birth of Roman domination. In the Greek world, citizens were divided into large groups: the tribes (phylai) and the phratries (phratriai). Those institutions were the basis of political organization. Then research has to show if kinship plays any role in the repartition of civil divisions and subdivisions in Western Asian Minor cities at Hellenistic times, since the principle of hereditary kinship seems to have been the norm; residential affiliation being, so it seems, a late phenomenon. Those tribe members consider they are descended from a common ancestor, most often a mythic character. Their subdivisions are often phratries which are associations that gather together several Families whose members consider they are kins. Last we have to show the similitudes and differences as to civil divisions and subdivisions in the different Western Asian Minor cities at Hellenistic Times. Thus we can study how citizenship status works in accordance to civil bodies. We may also wonder how citizens could exercise their rights, rights which were probably different from one city to the other and that surely developed in the said period. This study has to make allowances for what is from the role of civil divisions and subdivisions in the way cities are run and for what only concerns the inner organization of those institutions in matters of political structures
Books on the topic "Hellenistic administration"
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Corò, Paola. Seleucid Tablets from Uruk in the British Museum. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-246-8.
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Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Museum acquired as part of its cuneiform collections 120 economic tablets from Uruk dating to the Seleucid period; they belong to what has been described as “the most spectacular Hellenistic archives available today”. This book offers an analysis of the collection, accompanied by text editions. The approach adopted is to explore the documents in three main thematic sections: arable land, urban properties, and temple prebends. The administrative texts have been treated as a group. Particular attention is paid to the role played by specific families, individuals or groups in each area of interest, as well as to shedding new light on the ownership patterns and business strategies that characterised the activities of the parties to the documents.
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Mooren, Leon. Politics, Administration and Society in the Hellenistic and Roman World: Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Bertinoro 19-24 July 1997 (Studia Hellenistica) (Studia Hellenistica). Peeters, 2001.
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Leon, Mooren, ed. Politics, administration and society in the Hellenistic and Roman world: Proceedings of the international colloquium, Bertinoro 19-24 July 1997. Leuven: Peeters, 2000.
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Paganini, Mario C. D. Gymnasia and Greek Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845801.001.0001.
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This is the first complete study of all the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest-reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323–30 BC). It analyses the diffusion, characteristics, administration, and developments of the institution of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic Egypt and its implications for the assertion of Greek identity. It shows how this institution and its people were affected by the local environment and how ‘those from the gymnasium’, the members of the most Greek institution ever, were truly embedded in the social and cultural milieu of the country where they lived: they were the ‘Greeks’ of Egypt. Thanks to the information from Ptolemaic Egypt with its papyrological sources, this work showcases the variety of concomitant features and different traditions alive and active in the Hellenistic world, thus contributing to a better understanding of the ancient world in all its complexity and vitality.
Book chapters on the topic "Hellenistic administration"
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Fischer-Bovet, Christelle. "Hellenistic Empires." In The Oxford World History of Empire, 167–97. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197532768.003.0006.
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The incessant rivalries between the Ptolemaic and the Seleucid empires, the two largest empires issued from Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Empire, generated an expansion and a growing complexity of their administration. Moving beyond past colonial approaches, recent scholarship points to their sustainability, as they were among the longer lasting empires in the eastern Ancient Mediterranean. Their institutions proved resilient, internal decay and revolts leading at times to reconstruction under the same dynasty. The capacity of these empires for war-making and state-making are compared, as well as their military and economic goals, including their different monetary policies. These empires were able to penetrate many aspects of their multicultural societies through their integration of segments of the local elites into their state machinery, which was facilitated by the central ideological figure of their kings, who supported and infiltrated local religious traditions, though perhaps less in the Seleucid case.
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DUŠEK, JAN. "Administration of Samaria in the Hellenistic Period." In Samaria, Samarians, Samaritans, edited by József Zsengellér. Berlin, Boston: DE GRUYTER, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110268201.71.
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DIGNAS, BEATE. "Assessing Sacred Wealth: Finances, Land, Administration." In Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 13–35. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199254088.003.0002.
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"7. Antigonos's Administration of His Asian Realm." In Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State, 237–85. University of California Press, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520919044-011.
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Smith-Christopher, Daniel L. "Anointed Saviors or Oppressive Enslavers? Achaemenid Administration and Judean Subjects." In The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism, C4.S1—C4.N118. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190888459.013.4.
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Abstract Any discussion of ancient Hebrew attitudes toward Persian rule in the Hebrew Bible (e.g., sixth to fourth centuries bce) is complicated by two other intertwined issues. First, the political “use” of ancient Persia continues in contemporary debates between Iran and Western countries. Second, however, is the long legacy of the discipline of Western classics taking a strong “pro-Hellenist” (and indeed, often pro-Roman) position vis-à-vis ancient Persia. This has resulted in a reaction that attempts to be more “neutral” toward the Achaemenid Empire. A good illustration of these intertwined debates is the wide use of the famous “Cyrus Cylinder” in contemporary debate, classical studies, and biblical studies. This chapter takes three biblical texts, and one non-biblical text, that often “trigger” discussion of Hebrew attitudes toward Persian rule, namely Isaiah 45:1 (proclaiming Cyrus a “Messiah”); Nehemiah 9:36–37 (“We are slaves …”); Diaspora stories such as Daniel and Esther, and Ahiqar in the Elephantine texts. Questions are raised about the assumptions of positive attitudes toward the Persians, which tend to support arguments that any negative attitudes must certainly be later redactions from the Hellenistic period. But from a postcolonial perspective, particularly informed by the work of James Scott, it is possible to propose a number of instances in the text where Hebraic “attitudes” toward Persian rule were anything but positive, even if not usually openly hostile (which would have been largely suicidal in any case).
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Moyer, Ian S. "Revolts, Resistance, and the Materiality of the Moral Order in Ptolemaic Egypt." In Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East, 148–74. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192863478.003.0007.
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Abstract As a counterpoint to socio-economic explanations of revolts in Ptolemaic Egypt as ‘natural’ responses to material and social privations, Chapter 6 re-examines material and documentary evidence that illuminates the indigenous cultural and moral frameworks through which historical actors justified and articulated resistance. In documentary reports, and damaged documents themselves, it is possible to catch a glimpse of meaningful symbolic actions, undertaken in public ways and places in order to contest the legality or legitimacy of the regime. Such actions are a more humble counterpart to recondite prophetic texts such as the Demotic Chronicle or the Oracle of the Potter. The withdrawal of farmers from unfair contracts and the issuance of their refusal from the precinct of a temple suggests not irrational flight, but the quasi-formal registration of protest in a place that was often used for the administration of justice. Evidence of the intentional defacement of inscribed versions of the Canopus decree, erected in the open areas of Egyptian temples, likewise suggests a public rejection of loyal priests’ praise for the Ptolemies as good pharaohs. Rebels who forced a guardian of contracts publicly to burn them intended not only to disrupt legal agreements, but also to reject the authority backing them. Though fleeting, these bits of evidence offer insights into the local ethical orientations of specific acts of resistance, acts that should be read as far as possible in their own terms.
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Coşkun, Altay. "PESSINUS, KLEONNAEION AND ATTALID ADMINISTRATION IN EASTERN PHRYGIA IN LIGHT OF A RECENTLY-FOUND ROYAL LETTER FROM BALLIHISAR." In Galatian Victories and Other Studies into the Agency and Identity of the Galatians in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods, 213–32. Peeters Publishers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2zx9ppr.12.
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Arnaoutoglou, Ilias N. "An Outline of Legal Norms and Practices in Roman Macedonia (167 BCE–212 CE)." In Law in the Roman Provinces, 284–312. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844082.003.0015.
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In the last three decades our knowledge about ancient Macedonia, classical, Hellenistic and Roman, has been boosted thanks to archaeological discoveries and editions of epigraphic corpora or reassessment of individual documents. The study of legal norms and practices in Roman Macedonia will unavoidably rely on the epigraphic material published or re-edited over this period. Inscriptions tend to cluster around three main themes: a) the public domain as revealed through honorific practices of (autonomous) poleis or other collectivities, b) manumissions for which there is the dossier from the sanctuary of the Autochthonous Mother of the Gods of Leukopetra as well as other similar acts from various localities, and c) funerary monuments, containing information about fines, endowments, and testaments. This chapter will provide an outline of what we know about legal rules, procedures, and practices. These concepts are not shaped in a vacuum, therefore a brief excursus into the legal life of the kingdom of Macedonia and the terms of its incorporation into the Roman administrative structures is necessary.
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Girdvainyte, Lina. "Law and Citizenship in Roman Achaia." In Law in the Roman Provinces, 210–42. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844082.003.0012.
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This chapter addresses the interrelated topics of law and citizenship in Roman Achaia. The epigraphic evidence for cohabitation of Greek and resident Roman communities since the second century BCE, as well as the consequences of Roman military involvement—namely the creation of citizen colonies, administrative and political restructuring, transfers of land, and displacement of populations—inevitably raise questions of juridical gradation between and within the communities of mainland Greece. The spread of Roman citizenship on the one hand, and the persistence of the importance of local citizenships on the other, are directly relevant to the questions of jurisdiction and legal development in the province. Among the most discernible changes in juridical matters of the region is the decline of interstate arbitration and judicial capacities of territorial leagues. The institution of foreign judges, although still mentioned in epigraphic sources of the mid-second century CE, likely lost its original functionality too. Inter-community disputes fell under the complete jurisdiction of Roman authorities by the early first century CE, and the development of territorial dispute resolution under Rome reveals various points of interaction between Hellenistic arbitral practices and the procedural framework of Roman civil law. That said, the governor’s court, whether operating on an assize system or not, could not have been easily accessible, and private law matters within a polis were often dealt with by local judiciaries.
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Crouch, Dora P. "Purposes and Methods." In Water Management in Ancient Greek Cities. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195072808.003.0007.
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Water has been a persistent and consistent factor in urban development and history. One advantage in studying water as it relates to the process of urbanization is that the behavior of water, and therefore to a large extent the management of water, are “culture free.” As Mendelssohn (1974) has shown with respect to the physics of pyramid construction and collapse, some aspects of the ancient world—religion, marriage customs—are culture bound but others—behavior of construction materials, water—are much less conditioned by human preferences. Thus, insights from modern hydraulic engineering can have “chronology-free” validity. We can confidently turn to hydraulic engineers for insight into ancient water management, since water still behaves as it always has and is to be managed as it always was. For instance, modern engineers looking for locations for bridges and dams to be built anew as part of Rome’s modern water system, again and again find ancient ruins of bridges and dams just where they have determined are the best locations for new ones. Also, at Pergamon, the long-distance waterlines that supplied the Hellenistic and Roman city have been studied by professional hydraulic engineers, who followed each line through the countryside. When puzzled by a missing segment of the ancient line, they asked, “Where would I put the line next, if I were designing it?” and most often they found fragments of the missing segment just in that place, because the behavior of flowing water and the concepts for controlling it remain constant. Comprehensive treatment of the topic of ancient Greek water management and its close relation to the process of urbanization in the Greek world of the eighth to first centuries B.C. would involve the work of many scholars. To cite one name only of many for each subtopic, one could mention the following authors who have studied or are currently studying aspects of the question: Brinker on cisterns Camp on pipe classification (in progress); Camp has already studied the water system of Athens Doxiadis et al. on urban location Eck on legal and administrative aspects (in progress) Fahlbusch on long-distance water supply lines Garbrecht on the water supply of Pergamon Ginouves on baths Glaser on fountainhouses Grewe on the surveying of ancient waterlines and tunnels Gunay and his students on karst geology in southern Turkey Martin on urban form
Conference papers on the topic "Hellenistic administration"
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Никитин, А. Б., and В. А. Гаибов. "Seleucid Bullae in the State Hermitage Collection." In Hypanis. Труды отдела классической археологии ИА РАН. Crossref, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.25681/iaras.2019.978-5-94375-307-7.119-141.
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Селевкидские буллы это небольшие куски глины или битума, крепившиеся к документам, обычно контрактам или налоговым счетам. Многие из булл несут на себе следы веревок (шнуров) или отпечатки папирусных свитков. Их поверхность покрыта оттисками печатей магистратов и свидетелей. Оттиски печатей на селевкидских буллах разнообразны. Изредка встречаются царские печати с изображениями правителей. Официальные печати содержат надписи: обозначение должности, административной единицы (например, название города), дату по эре Селевка (начиная с 312 г. до н.э.). Печати частных лиц, выступавших свидетелями, чаще всего анэпиграфны. На них изображались божества греческого пантеона, животные, реальные и фантастические, мужские и женские портреты, различные предметы. Селевкидские буллы происходят с территорий, в прошлом принадлежавших империи Селевкидов это Месопотамия и Сирия. Многочисленные буллы из разных музейных коллекций и найденные при раскопках месопотамских городов уже опубликованы. В Эрмитаже хранятся пятнадцать селевкидских булл, предположительно привезенных И.М. Дьяконовым из Кембриджа в 1954 году с 23го Международного конгресса востоковедов. Точных сведений о происхождении эрмитажных булл нет. Особый интерес среди них представляют два оттиска печатей, принадлежащие магистратам города Урук, ответственным за налоги, а также оттиск с указанием даты по эре Селевка (булла ДВ19114). Сюжеты, представленные на публикуемых буллах, весьма разнообразны, но в целом они не выходят за пределы обычных для печатей эллинистического времени изображений. Примечателен тот факт, что на парфянских буллах из Старой Нисы и из раскопок Гёбеклы-депе в Маргиане мы встречаем оттиски печатей с аналогичными сюжетами, что иллюстрирует преемственность традиций парфянской сфрагистики. Seleucid bullae are small lumps of clay or bitimen attached to documents, usually contracts or tax accounts. Many of them bear traces of cords or impressions from rolls of papyrus. They also bear impressions of seals belonging to officials or witnesses. The impressions are various. There are rare royal sealings with portraits of monarchs. Official seals often bear inscriptions indicating the owners office, administrative unit (the name of the city, for example) and date according to the Seleucid era (from 312 B.C.). Seals of private persons acting as witnesses most often have no inscriptions. They represent deities of the Greek Pantheon, animals, real and fantastic male and female portraits, different other objects. Seleucid bullae originate mainly from territories belonging in the past to the Seleucid kingdom - Mesopotamia and Syria. Numerous bullae from museum collections and from archaeological excavations have been already published. In the Hermitage Museum there are fifteen Seleucid bullae presumably brought by I.M. Diakonoff from Cambridge from the 23rd International Congress of Orientologists. Most interesting among these are two sealings of the magistrates of the city of Uruq responsible for taxes and one dated sealing (DV-19114). The images represented on the Hermitage bullae are various, however they all belong to the traditional circle of Hellenistic images. It is noteworthy that on Parthian bullae from Old Nisa and Goebekly-depe in Margiana there are many sealings with similar images illustrating the continuity of the Hellenistic-Parthian sphragistic tradition.