Hellenistic Period

Roger S. Bagnall is Professor of Classics and History at Columbia University. He has edited numerous papyri and ostraka and his previous publications include Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (1995), The Demography of Roman Egypt (1994) and Egypt in Late Antiquity (1993). Peter Derow is Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, Oxford and Lecturer in Ancient History in the University of Oxford. He has published on Hellenistic history and epigraphy and Roman republican history, and has a special interest in Polybius and dealings between Rome and the Greeks. He is co-editor with Robert Parker of Herodotus and his World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest (2003).

• Table of Documents ixList of Illustrations xvPreface xviiNote on Editorial Practice xxiAbbreviations xxiiNote on Reading Documents xxivThe Texts 1I Political History 1II The Foreign Possessions of the Ptolemies 111III Life in Greek Cities 119IV The Bureaucracy of Ptolemaic Egypt 144V The Royal Economy of Egypt 163VI The Military and Police of Ptolemaic Egypt 199VII The Ptolemaic Legal and Judicial System 206VIII Social Relations and Private Life 229IX Religion 247Appendix: Ptolemaic Administration 285Tables and Charts 289I Ptolemaic Kings 289II Seleucid Kings to 96 BC 290III Antigonid Kings 290IV Attalid Rulers 291V Months 291VI Currency 292Glossary and Index of Greek Terms 293Concordance: Papyri 301Concordance: Inscriptions 305Concordance between Editions 309Index of Persons, Places and Subjects 311

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