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almahu_9949314994602882
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1 online resource (xviii, 444 pages) :
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ISBN:
9781009038935 (ebook)
Content:
Historians have long wondered at the improbable rise of the Attalids of Pergamon after 188 BCE. The Roman-brokered Settlement of Apameia offered a new map - a brittle framework for sovereignty in Anatolia and the eastern Aegean. What allowed the Attalids to make this map a reality and leave their indelible Pergamene imprint on our Classical imagination? In this uniquely comprehensive study of the political economy of the kingdom, Noah Kaye rethinks the impact of Attalid imperialism on the Greek polis and the multicultural character of the dynasty's notorious propaganda. By synthesizing new findings in epigraphy, archaeology, and numismatics, he shows the kingdom for the first time from the inside. The Pergamene way of ruling was a distinctively non-coercive and efficient means of taxing and winning loyalty. Royal tax collectors collaborated with city and village officials on budgets and minting, while the kings utterly transformed the civic space of the gymnasium.
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Acknowledgments -- List of figures, tables, and maps -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Eating with the tax-collectors -- The skeleton of the state -- The king's money -- Cities and other civic organisms -- Hastening to the gymnasium -- Pergamene Panhellenism -- Conclusion -- Appendix of epigraphical documents -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General index.
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Print version: ISBN 9781316510599
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009038935
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