Parasites of the God : accountants, financiers and traders on Hellenistic Delos /

Parasites of the God : accountants, financiers and traders on Hellenistic Delos /

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Author / Creator:	Chankowski, Véronique, 1971- author.
Uniform title:	Parasites du Dieu. English
Imprint:	Athens : Ecole française d'Athènes, [2023] ©2023
Description:	xiv, 434 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 31 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Bibliothèque des écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 0257-4101 ; fascicule quatre cent neuf [409] Bibliothèque des écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome ; fasc. 409.
Subject:	Sanctuary of Apollo (Delos Island, Greece) Account books -- Greece -- Delos Island -- History -- To 1500. Accountants -- Greece -- Delos Island -- To 1500. Inventories -- Greece -- Delos Island -- History -- To 1500. Inscriptions, Greek -- Greece -- Delos Island. Numismatics, Greek -- Greece -- Delos Island. Delos Island (Greece) -- Commerce -- History -- To 1500. Delos Island (Greece) -- Economic conditions. Delos Island (Greece) -- Antiquities.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13467641

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Varying Form of Title:	Accountants, financiers and traders on Hellenistic Delos
Other authors / contributors:	J.M. Kaplan Fund, sponsoring body.
ISBN:	9782869586116 2869586116
Notes:	English translation: Christopher Sutcliffe. Includes bibliographical references and index. "Published with the support of the J.M. Kaplan Fund"--Preliminary page.
Summary:	"Freed from Athenian tutelage in 314 BC, at a time of geopolitical changes that marked the beginnings of the Hellenistic period in the Aegean world, Delos gradually consolidated its political and economic independence. During the third and second centuries, the Delian community redefined the central place that the island had continually occupied in the economic, financial and cultural flows of the Mediterranean. This study, mainly based on epigraphic accounting sources, including more than five hundred accounts and engraved inventories that were displayed in the sanctuary of Apollo, but also on numismatic sources and archaeological remains on the seafront, re-considers the question of Delos' place in the Hellenistic economy. Far from being an exception to be excluded from serialized comparisons, the Delian evidence is indicative of Aegean economic circumstances and demonstrates the capacities of the Greek communities to adapt to change in troubled times. Behind the numbers cut in stone appear human communities and societies whose economic activities shed fresh light on the history of this part of the Mediterranean."--

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