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Summary: This collection brings together thirty-three articles by Jean Andreau, all of which have already been published elsewhere, in journals or collective works. The oldest date from the 1970s and the most recent from the 2010s. Some of them deal with the work of the great Russian historian of the ancient economy, Michel I. Rostovtzeff. The others deal with some of the major aspects of the economic and social life of the ancient Roman world: currency and markets; the economic and financial policy of the Empire; the economic interests of the elites; the milieu of the former slaves, the freedmen, who played a major role in manufacturing and trade; and finally, social relations and social mobility.

The Herculaneum Papyri comprise the only surviving library of antiquity. In recent years, innovative technologies and new philological methods have effectively revolutionized research. Characters that were previously invisible are now emerging, and it will soon be possible to unroll complete rolls virtually. This book provides the first German introduction to the Herculaneum papyri and the potential of new imaging methods.

This volume contains the edition of 42 Egyptian documentary papyri from the 5th–8th century AD including translations as well as historical and philological commentary. The texts were written in Greek or Coptic, but the volume also comprises bilingual Greek-Coptic documents and an Arabic-Greek protocol. These multifaceted papyri, such as administrative, legal and tax documents, allow precious glimpses into the society of the late antique Nile Valley and produce important new evidence for the underexplored transition period from Byzantine to Islamic rule in Egypt., Der vorliegende Band umfasst die Edition von 42 bislang unveröffentlichten ägyptischen Papyrusdokumenten aus dem 5. bis 8. Jahrhundert n. Chr. mit Übersetzung und einem historisch-linguistischen Kommentar. Die Texte sind zumeist auf Griechisch oder Koptisch verfasst, doch finden sich auch griechisch-koptische Dokumente sowie ein arabisch-griechisches Protokoll. Die facettenreichen Texte, die aus dem Alltagsmilieu, dem administrativen, rechtlichen und steuerrechtlichen Bereich stammen, ermöglichen wertvolle Einblicke in das gesellschaftliche Leben im spätantiken Niltal und generieren neue Informationen zur noch wenig erforschten Übergangszeit von der byzantinischen zur arabischen Herrschaft in Ägypten.

Artes Grammaticae in frammenti collects and scrutinizes all the known Latin and bilingual (Greek-Latin and Latin-Greek) grammatical texts on papyrus (1st cent. B.C. - VIth cent. A.D) in order to add further tesserae in the mosaic of our knowledge of forms, practices and circulation of Latin grammar and language and of Roman education, especially in the excentric and multilingual areas of the Empire.