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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2024

Charlotte Van Regenmortel
Charlotte Van Regenmortel
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University of Liverpool

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Soldiers, Wages, and the Hellenistic Economies , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024
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Contents

  1. List of Tables

  2. Acknowledgements

  3. Note on Transliteration and Translation

  4. Chronology

  5. List of Abbreviations

  6. List of Maps

  7. Introduction

  8. 1Contextualizing Paid Military Service

    1. 1.1Towards the Hellenistic World: A Brief Military and Economic History

    2. 1.2Debating the Ancient Economy: The Relevance of the Labour Market

    3. 1.3Questioning the Mercenary Paradigm

  9. 2The Concept of Wage Labour

    1. 2.1Labour and Economic Structure

    2. 2.2Defining the Wage Labour Relationship

    3. 2.3Wage Labour in the Ancient Economy

    4. 2.4Identifying the Military Wage Labourer

  10. 3Enlistment and Terms of Service

    1. 3.1Military Service in the Armies of Philip and Alexander

    2. 3.2Free Military Labour in the Armies of the Successors

    3. 3.3Military Service in the Armies of the Hellenistic Kingdoms

  11. 4Forms of Remuneration and Standards of Living

    1. 4.1Problems and Terminology

    2. 4.2Initial Incentives

    3. 4.3Monetary Wages

    4. 4.4Additional Benefits and Privileges

    5. 4.5Evidence for Living Standards

  12. 5The Military Labour Market

    1. 5.1The Concept of the Labour Market

    2. 5.2The Miles Economicus?

    3. 5.3The Internal Labour Market: Pay Grades and Career Progression

    4. 5.4External Labour Markets: Supply, Demand, and the Price of Labour

  13. 6Military Wage Labour and the Hellenistic Economies

    1. 6.1Hellenistic Market Economies Revisited

    2. 6.2The Impact of Military Wage Labour

  14. Conclusion

  15. Epigraphic Dossier

    1. 1Alexander, Athens, and the Wages of the Hypaspists

    2. 2Agreement between Soldiers, Eupolemos, and the Polis of Theangela

    3. 3Agreement between Soldiers, the Polis of Iasos, and Ptolemy I

    4. 4Confirmation of a Land Grant by Cassander

    5. 5A Grant of Land from Lysimachus

    6. 6Agreement between Eumenes I and the Soldiers Stationed at Philetaireia and Attaleia

    7. 7A Grant of Land from Antigonus Used as Security for a Loan

    8. 8Eumenes II and Apollonioucharax

  16. Bibliography

  17. Index

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