Army and society in Ptolemaic Egypt
This is the only substantial and up-to-date reference work on the Ptolemaic army. Employing Greek and Egyptian papyri and inscriptions, and building on approaches developed in state-formation theory, it offers a coherent account of how the changing structures of the army in Egypt after Alexander...
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Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2014
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Schriftenreihe: | Armies of the Ancient World
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- The Army in Late Period Egypt (664-332 BC)
- Military challenges faced by the Ptolemies : power, money, crisis and reform
- Military organization and hierarchy
- Military recruitment and ethnic composition
- Settling soldiers
- Soldiers and officers in the Egyptian countryside
- Priests in the Army : a politico-ideological explanation
- The Army and Egyptian temple-building