Pharaonic Egypt and the Ara Pacis in Augustan Rome
Pharaonic Egypt and the Ara Pacis in Augustan Rome Jennifer Trimble (Stanford University) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: September (2007) Abstract This paper…
Sex and empire: a Darwinian perspective
This paper draws on evolutionary psychology to elucidate ultimate causation in imperial state formation and predatory exploitation in antiquity and beyond. Differential access to the means of reproduction is shown to have been a key feature of early imperial systems.
Growing up fatherless in antiquity: the demographic background
Growing up fatherless in antiquity: the demographic background Walter Scheidel (Stanford University) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, June (2006) Abstract The severe mortality regime…
The Roman slave supply
This survey of the scale and sources of the Roman slave supply will be published in Keith Bradley and Paul Cartledge (eds.), The Cambridge world history of slavery, 1: The ancient Mediterranean world.
Rule and Revenue in Egypt and Rome: Political Stability and Fiscal Institutions
This paper has more modest goals. It takes as its starting point Levi’s hy- pothesis that the transition from the Roman Republic to the Principate in the late first century BC brought political stability, which led to rationally calcu- lated fiscal reforms. It examines the effects of this transition in Egypt where there is abundant evidence due to the survival of administrative and tax docu- ments on papyrus and potsherds.
Ancient Egypt and the Tebtunis Papyri on the Shore of the Ocean of Stories
Ancient Egypt and the Tebtunis Papyri on the Shore of the Ocean of Stories Presented by Todd Hickey, UC Berkeley and Brian Muhs,…
The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC
Greece between 1500 and 500 BC is one of the best known examples of the phenomenon of the regeneration of complex society after a collapse. I review 10 core dimensions of this process (urbanism, tax and rent, monuments, elite power, information- recording systems, trade, crafts, military power, scale, and standards of living), and suggest that punctuated equilibrium models accommodate the data better than gradualist interpretations.
Texts, contexts, subtexts and interpretative frameworks. Beyond the parochial and toward (dynamic) modeling of the Ptolemaic state and the Ptolemaic economy
My concern in this paper is the historical interpretation of the Greek and demotic documentary papyri of the Ptolemaic period, the role of Archaeology in the context of Ptolemaic economic history, and the application of social science theory towards an understanding of Ptolemaic Egypt.
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An Early Ptolemaic Land Survey in Demotic: P. Cair. II 31073
An Early Ptolemaic Land Survey in Demotic: P. Cair. II 31073 Monson, Andrew Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, January 2007 Abstract This paper…