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The book provides a comprehensive study of Demosthenes’ Against Leptines as a document for the reconstruction of Athenian fourth-century politics, law and public economy. The importance of the speech has been increasingly recognized in recent years, with research on Athenian lawmaking highlighting its centrality and the inadequacy of previous accounts, and work on honours for benefactors and on the liturgical system stressing its importance for understanding the development and conceptualization of euergetism. The speech is the earliest and only extensive ancient account of the ideological, theoretical and moral underpinnings of these institutions and developments. The introduction and commentary offer a comprehensive treatment of these aspects, providing historians with key insights into Athenians conceptions of public service, public honour and reciprocity. Other work has stressed the importance of the speech for the study of the Greek public economy, and the introduction and commentary make these aspects central. The Against Leptines stands at the crossroads of some of the liveliest and most important current discussions in Greek history, and this commentary aims to advance our historical understanding in these areas.
Demosthenes --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- Oratory, Ancient. --- Discours grecs --- Eloquence antique --- Translations into Italian. --- Traductions italiennes --- Demosthenes. --- Athens (Greece) --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Politics and government --- Early works to 1800. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Forensic orations --- Oratory, Ancient --- Law, Greek --- Law --- Greek law --- Law, Ancient --- Greek orations --- Greek speeches --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Arguments, Legal --- Legal arguments --- Oral pleading --- Speeches, addresses, etc. --- Trial practice --- Forensic oratory --- History --- Demosfen --- Dīmūstīn --- Demóstenes --- Démosthène --- דמוסתנס --- Δημοσθένης --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Aḟiny (Greece) --- Atene (Greece) --- Atʻēnkʻ (Greece) --- Ateny (Greece) --- Athen (Greece) --- Athēna (Greece) --- Athēnai (Greece) --- Athènes (Greece) --- Athinai (Greece) --- Athīnā (Greece) --- Αθήνα (Greece) --- Economic history. --- Demostene --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Adversus Leptinem (Demosthenes) --- To 1500 --- Greece --- Speech of Demosthenes against the law of Leptines (Demosthenes) --- Demosthenis Oratio adversus Leptinem (Demosthenes) --- Oratio adversus Leptinem (Demosthenes) --- Dēmosthenous pros Leptinēn (Demosthenes) --- Pros Leptinēn (Demosthenes) --- Oration against Leptines (Demosthenes) --- Oration of Demosthenes against the law of Leptines (Demosthenes) --- Athens. --- economic history. --- legislation. --- Athens --- economic history --- legislation
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Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world.The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.
Ptolemaic dynasty, --- Memphis (Extinct city) --- Memphis (Ville ancienne) --- Civilization. --- Civilisation --- Civilization --- Ptolemaic dynasty --- Ptolemaic dynasty,-305 B.C.-30 B.C. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- Alexandria. --- Aphrodite priests. --- Apis calves. --- Black Sea region. --- Darius III. --- Eudoxos of Knidos. --- Hellenomemphites. --- Herme. --- Jeremiah, prophet. --- Kallikrates of Samos. --- Kom el Nawa. --- Leptines. --- Lykopolis. --- Memphite nome. --- Menes. --- Nubia and Nubians. --- Octavian. --- Persians. --- Red Sea, ports. --- acropolis. --- agriculture. --- bakers. --- burial rites. --- cereals. --- citadel. --- coronations. --- dockyards. --- dykes. --- fertility rites. --- foreign communities. --- fortune-telling. --- garrison troops. --- gymnasium. --- imports. --- investment, capital. --- irrigation. --- jewelry. --- limestone. --- mobility, social. --- musicians, priestess. --- ostraka. --- patronage. --- philosophers. --- pilgrims. --- priests. --- quarters of the city. --- sacrifices. --- shipbuilding. --- stoneworking. --- terracotta. --- violence. --- Egypt --- Antiquities --- Ptolemaic dynasty, - 305-30 B.C
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