Description
Reveals how the empire of Attalid Pergamon dominated the Hellenistic world by controlling culture and identity through its fiscal system.
About the Author
Noah Kaye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University. He is an ancient historian who has worked extensively throughout the eastern Mediterranean, in Greece, where he was the Heinrich Schliemann Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, in Israel, where he was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Haifa, and in Turkey, where he was a Senior Fellow at the Koc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations. He has conducted and published archaeological fieldwork in Greece (Molyvoti Thrace Archaeological Project) and Turkey (Bogsak Archaeological Survey, Cilicia). He is also an epigrapher and a numismatist, and has contributed to the multi-lingual corpus of inscriptions, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae.
Reviews
'... essential reading for those interested in not only the history of the Attalids, but also the history of western Asia Minor and ancient fiscal regimes.' Bradley Jordan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
'Kaye closes with the observation that the Attalids' success was not inevitable and urges us to consider the reasons why they were successful. His monograph offers a lucid, engaging, and persuasive account of precisely that. As such, it is essential reading for those interested in not only the history of the Attalids, but also the history of western Asia Minor and ancient fiscal regimes.' Bradley Jordan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
'This brilliant study is a very rare bird that combines the study of economic and administrative history with the history of culture and identity. ... this is a highly stimulating book, which deserves to be read attentively by very many different audiences.' Kostas Vlassopoulos, Greece and Rome
Book Information
ISBN 9781316510599
Author Noah Kaye
Format Hardback
Page Count 300
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 963g
Dimensions(mm) 251mm * 175mm * 31mm