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Antioche de Syrie sous les Séleucides : corpus des monnaies d'or et d'argent. 1, De Séleucos à Antiochos V c. 300-161
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ISBN: 287754107X 9782877541077 Year: 1999 Volume: 19 Publisher: Paris : Diffusion de Boccard,

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Hellenism in the East : the interaction of Greek and non-Greek civilzations from Syria to Central Asia after Alexander
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ISBN: 0715621254 Year: 1987 Publisher: london Duckworth

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The Seleukid royal economy
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ISBN: 0521837073 0521117763 1107161592 0511264895 0511265611 0511317344 0511482698 1280749652 0511263325 0511264135 9780511265617 9780511263323 9780511264139 9780511264894 9781280749650 9786610749652 6610749655 9780521837071 9780511482694 9780521117760 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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The Seleukid empire, the principal successor-state of the empire of Alexander the Great, endured for over 200 years and stretched, at its peak, from the Mediterranean to the borders of India. This book provides a wide-ranging study of the empire's economy and the methods used by the Seleukid kings to monetise and manage it so as to extract tribute, rent and taxes as efficiently as possible. It uses a variety of Greek literary sources and inscriptions, cuneiform texts, archaeological, numismatic and comparative evidence to explore in detail the manner of exploitation of their lands and subjects by the Seleukid kings, their city-building activity, the financing of their armies and administration, the use they made of coinage and their methods of financial management. The book adopts a highly original, numerical approach throughout, which leads to a quantified model of the economy of an ancient state.

Imperialism and Jewish Society
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ISBN: 128208710X 9786612087103 1400824850 9781400824854 0691117810 9780691117812 9780691088501 0691088500 9780691117812 0691088500 6612087102 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost among them that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life. Schwartz begins by arguing that the distinctiveness of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and early Roman periods was the product of generally prevailing imperial tolerance. From around 70 C.E. to the mid-fourth century, with failed revolts and the alluring cultural norms of the High Roman Empire, Judaism all but disintegrated. However, late in the Roman Empire, the Christianized state played a decisive role in ''re-Judaizing'' the Jews. The state gradually excluded them from society while supporting their leaders and recognizing their local communities. It was thus in Late Antiquity that the synagogue-centered community became prevalent among the Jews, that there re-emerged a distinctively Jewish art and literature--laying the foundations for Judaism as we know it today. Through masterful scholarship set in rich detail, this book challenges traditional views rooted in romantic notions about Jewish fortitude. Integrating material relics and literature while setting the Jews in their eastern Mediterranean context, it addresses the complex and varied consequences of imperialism on this vast period of Jewish history more ambitiously than ever before. Imperialism in Jewish Society will be widely read and much debated.

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Jews --- Judaism --- Hellenistic Judaism --- Judaism, Hellenistic --- Civilization --- Greek influences. --- History --- Palestine --- Aelia Capitolina. --- Ancient Judaism (book). --- Archaeology. --- Avodah Zarah. --- Bar Kokhba revolt. --- Beit She'an. --- Book of Deuteronomy. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Capernaum. --- Cathedra. --- Christian. --- Christianity. --- Christianization. --- Church Fathers. --- Early Period. --- Eastern Mediterranean. --- Edom. --- Egypt (Roman province). --- Epigraphy. --- Euergetism. --- Exegesis. --- First Jewish–Roman War. --- Galilean. --- Gentile. --- God. --- Grandee. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Hellenistic period. --- Hellenization. --- Herodian. --- Iconography. --- Ideology. --- Idolatry. --- Israel. --- Israelites. --- Jewish Christian. --- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish literature. --- Jewish prayer. --- Jewish religious movements. --- Jewish studies. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Judaization. --- Judea (Roman province). --- Kohen. --- Late Antiquity. --- Leiden. --- Levine. --- Libanius. --- Lifshitz. --- Literature. --- Maccabean Revolt. --- Menorah (Temple). --- Mishnah. --- Narrative. --- Near East. --- Paganism. --- Palestinian Jews. --- Persecution. --- Pharisees. --- Piyyut. --- Ptolemaic Kingdom. --- Rabbi. --- Rabbinic literature. --- Religion. --- Religiosity. --- Rhetoric. --- Rite. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman Government. --- Samaritans. --- Scythopolis (see). --- Second Temple period. --- Second Temple. --- Sect. --- Sefer (Hebrew). --- Seleucid Empire. --- Seminar. --- Sepphoris. --- Shabbat. --- Synagogue. --- Syria Palaestina. --- Tax. --- Temple in Jerusalem. --- Theology. --- Tiberias. --- Torah reading. --- Torah study. --- Torah. --- Tosefta. --- Tractate. --- Upper Galilee. --- Urban culture. --- Writing. --- Yohanan.


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How to Grow Old : Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life
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ISBN: 1400880394 0691167702 Year: 2016 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all-and why you might discover that reading and gardening are actually far more pleasurable than sex ever was.Filled with timeless wisdom and practical guidance, Cicero's brief, charming classic-written in 44 BC and originally titled On Old Age-has delighted and inspired readers, from Saint Augustine to Thomas Jefferson, for more than two thousand years. Presented here in a lively new translation with an informative new introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, the book directly addresses the greatest fears of growing older and persuasively argues why these worries are greatly exaggerated-or altogether mistaken.Montaigne said Cicero's book "gives one an appetite for growing old." The American founding father John Adams read it repeatedly in his later years. And today its lessons are more relevant than ever in a world obsessed with the futile pursuit of youth.

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Old age --- 148 BC. --- 168 BC. --- 202 BC. --- 209 BC. --- 216 BC. --- 280 BC. --- 295 BC. --- 380 BC. --- 480 BC. --- 509 BC. --- 5th century BC. --- Aequi. --- Agriculture. --- Ancient Rome. --- Appius Claudius Caecus. --- Appius Claudius. --- Augur. --- Battle of Cannae. --- Battle of Pydna. --- Battle of Zama. --- Carthago delenda est. --- Cato the Elder. --- Cethegus. --- Cleanthes. --- Cognomen. --- Cyrus the Great. --- Cyrus the Younger. --- Darius II. --- De Legibus. --- De re publica. --- Democritus. --- Diogenes of Babylon. --- Ennius. --- Enthusiasm. --- Fabius Maximus. --- Flaccus. --- Gaius Fabricius Luscinus. --- Gaius Flaminius. --- Gaius Laelius. --- Gaius Pontius. --- Gaius Servilius Ahala. --- Gnaeus (praenomen). --- Gorgias. --- Greek literature. --- Hesiod. --- His Family. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Isocrates. --- King of Rome. --- Laertes. --- Livius Andronicus. --- Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 219 BC). --- Lucius Caecilius Metellus (consul 251 BC). --- Lucius Junius Brutus. --- Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. --- Manius Curius Dentatus. --- Manure. --- Marcus Atilius Regulus. --- Marcus Livius Salinator. --- Marcus Porcius Cato (son of Cato the Younger). --- Masinissa. --- Middle Ages. --- Middle age. --- Military tribune. --- Milo of Croton. --- Miser. --- Naevius. --- Oedipus at Colonus. --- Pelias. --- Philosopher. --- Plautus. --- Playwright. --- Publius Cornelius Scipio. --- Quintus Fabius Maximus. --- Rhetoric. --- Roman consul. --- Roman dictator. --- Sabines. --- Scipio Aemilianus. --- Scipio Africanus. --- Seleucid Empire. --- Self-control. --- Seriousness. --- Sophist. --- Sophocles. --- Spurius Maelius. --- Stesichorus. --- Terence. --- The Persians. --- Themistocles. --- Thermopylae. --- Third Punic War. --- Tiberius Coruncanius. --- Titus Pomponius Atticus. --- Titus Quinctius Flamininus. --- Tomb. --- Wise old man. --- Works and Days. --- Writing. --- Xenophon.

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