中图分类法:
E411.9 版次:
著者:
Fischer-Bovet, Christelle,
题名:
Army and society in Ptolemaic Egypt / / ,
载体形态:
xxv, 447 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
内容提要:
"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's conquest led to the development of an ethnically more integrated society. A new tripartite division of Ptolemaic history challenges the idea of gradual decline, and emphasizes the reshaping of military structures that took place between c.220 and c.160 BC in response to changes in the nature of warfare, mobilization and de