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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      27 January 2024
      22 February 2024
      ISBN:
      9781009036474
      9781316511053
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009036474
      Dimensions:
      (254 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.05kg, 414 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Archaeology, Archaeology
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    In Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean World, D. Alex Walthall investigates the royal administration of Hieron II (r. 269-215 BCE), the Syracusan monarch who leveraged Sicily's agricultural resources to build a flourishing kingdom that, at one time, played an outsized role in the political and cultural affairs of the Western Mediterranean. Walthall's study combines an historical overview with the rich archaeological evidence that traditionally has not been considered in studies of Hellenistic kingdoms. Exploring the Hieronian system of agricultural taxation, he recasts the traditional narrative of the island's role as a Roman imperial 'grain basket' via analysis of monumental granaries, patterns of rural land-use, standardized grain measures, and the circulation of bronze coinage— the material elements of an agricultural administration that have emerged from recent excavations and intensive landscape survey on the island. Combining material and documentary evidence, Walthall's multi-disciplinary approach offers a new model for the writing of economic and social history of ancient societies.

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    ‘… this is an important work for scholars of Sicily, the Hellenistic World, and administration in antiquity. The work is exemplary in the use of theoretical insights from postcolonial studies and economics. Walthall’s mastery of the archaeological evidence from Morgantina is the great strength of the book, but scholarship must now move beyond this site. Archaeologists, historians, and numismatists should be grateful to Walthall for providing a persuasive model and meditate on how their sites and evidence might affirm or complicate it.’

    Christopher M. de Lisle Source: Gnomon

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