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By G. G. Aperghis

ISBN-10: 0521117763

ISBN-13: 9780521117760

ISBN-10: 0521837073

ISBN-13: 9780521837071

The Seleukid empire, the vital successor-state of the empire of Alexander the nice, persevered for over two hundred years and stretched, at its top, from the Mediterranean to the borders of India. This publication offers a wide-ranging learn of the empire's financial system and the tools utilized by the Seleukid kings to monetise and deal with it on the way to extract tribute, hire and taxes as successfully as attainable. It makes use of various Greek literary assets and inscriptions, cuneiform texts, archaeological, numismatic and comparative facts to discover intimately the way of exploitation in their lands and topics by means of the Seleukid kings, their city-building task, the financing in their armies and management, the use they made from coinage and their equipment of monetary administration. The publication adopts a hugely unique, numerical process all through, which results in a quantified version of the economic climate of an historical state.

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