Table of Contents; Original Sources of Chapters; List of illustrations; Glossary; Maps; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: The Monarchy; 1. Ptolemy I and the quest for legitimacy; 2. Ptolemy III and Philae: snapshot of a reign, a temple, and a cult; 3. The dynastic politics of Cleopatra VII; 4. Cleopatra VII Philopatris; 5. Cleopatra, the diadem and the image; Part II: The Greeks; 6. The Thracians in Ptolemaic Egypt; 7. The Ptolemaic papyri and the Achaean diaspora; 8. The Greek presence and the Ptolemaic rural setting;; 9. The urban milieu in the Egyptian countryside during the Ptolemaic period; 10. Kerkeosiris and its Greeks in the second century; 11. The cavalry settlers of the Herakleopolite in the first century; 12. Two royal ordinances of the first century and the Alexandrians; Part III: The Royal Economy; 13. The Revenue Laws Papyrus: Greek tradition and Hellenistic adaptation; 14. The structural tensions of Ptolemaic society; 15. The third-century land leases from Tholthis; Part IV: Greeks and Egyptians; 16. Greek economy and Egyptian society in the third century; 17. Greeks and Egyptians in PSI V 502; 18. Graeco-Roman Egypt and the question of cultural interaction; 19. Normality and distinctiveness in the epigraphy of Greek and Roman Egypt; Conclusion; Bibliography; General index and index of passages discussed.
Jean Bingen is Emeritus Professor of Greek at the Free University of Brussels and the most distinguished living historian of Hellenistic Egypt. Over 60 years of research he has published numerous articles and reports, and remains active. He was, for example, a leading figure in the Mons Claudianus excavation of 1987-93. Roger S. Bagnall is Professor of Classics and History at Columbia University. His books include The Administration of Ptolemaic Possessions (1976), Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton 1993) and The Demography of Roman Egypt (Cambridge 1994).
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