Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon

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Peeters Publishers, 2004 - 385 pagine
This study presents the famous city of Babylon in its latest phase of occupation: from the end of the Achaemenid period (second half of the fourth century B.C.), during the reign of Alexander, the Successors, the Seleucid and Arsacid dynasty until the very end of cuneiform literature and other historical sources (around third-fourth century AD). It contains first of all a survey of the available Classical and Oriental sources (chapter 1), a topography of the city (chapter 2), an overview of political events and Babylon's role in the Empire (chapter 3). Furthermore Babylon's institutions (chapter 4), its social and economic (chapter 5), religious (chapter 6) and cultural (chapter 7) life are discussed. Finally, Babylon's legacy and its significance for later cultures appears in chapter 8.

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INTRODUCTION
1
Other documents
20
SOURCES ON BABYLON
47
TOPOGRAPHY 5555
56
THE CITY OF BABYLON DURING THE ACHAEMENID PERIOD
66
BABYLON DURING THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD
73
POLITICAL HISTORY
99
BABYLON DURING THE WARS OF THE SUCCESSORS 323305
117
SOCIOECONOMIC SITUATION
226
81
231
ECONOMIC LIFE
237
TEMPLE ECONOMY
240
Performer lútu rāsinu
261
RELIGIOUS LIFE
264
CULT IN HELLENISTIC BABYLON
277
IMPORTANCE OF ASTRONOMY
296

BABYLON DURING THE SELEUCID DYNASTY 305141
137
Political instability at the beginning of the new Parthian rule
176
Babylon during the Parthian Dark Age 8861
184
INSTITUTIONS IN HELLENISTIC BABYLON
193
79
200
THE PĀḥĀT BĂBILI AND πoλĩται WHO ARE IN BABYLON
204
193
214
THE TEMPLE STATE JERUSALEM DURING THE HELLENISTIC
220
Lexical lists and school texts
300
355
308
BABYLON AS SYMBOL
315
93
323
95
329
102
342
INDICES
351
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