Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Structure of Land Tenure

by J.G. Manning

By revealing the dynamics between central and local power in Egypt, Joe Manning demonstrates that Ptolemaic economic power ultimately shaped Roman Egyptian social and economic institutions. His book offers a framework for understanding the structure of the Ptolemaic state and economy, as well as the relationship between the new Ptolemaic economic institutions and the ancient Egyptian legal traditions of property rights. Historians of Egypt and the Hellenistic world will welcome the volume.

Genres: History, Egypt

360 pages, Paperback

First published May 28, 1999

About the author

The William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of Classics and History
Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School.

Joseph Gilbert Manning is an ancient historian whose main interest is in the social history of the Hellenistic world. His primary focus has been in the fields of economic and legal history. He was educated at the Ohio State University (Medieval architectural history/History) and the University of Chicago, studying Egyptology and Ancient History, taking an AM and a PHD in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.