Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century AD Egypt
Subtitle: The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780521037631
Subjects: Economic History; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; BCE to c 500 CE; History; History - General History; History: World; Ancient Egypt; Europe; Ancient - Egypt; Ancient - Rome; Business & Economics : Economic History; Farms, Large--Egypt--Fayy??um--History; Farms, Large--Egypt--Fayyåum--History; History / Ancient / Egypt; History / Ancient / General; History : Ancient - Rome; Ancient - General
First sentence: The 'Heroninos archive' is the name given by papyrologists to a huge collection of documents, mostly letters, but also including a fair number of accounts, which comes from the Fayum area of Egypt and dates to the third century A.D.