Augustan Egypt : The Creation of a Roman Province, Reprint Edition

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

With updated documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts fresh and original light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire.

Specifically, it examines the impact of the Roman conquest on Egypt's administrative and fiscal structure. The evidence from other parts of the Roman world, e.g. from the kingdom of Galatia, but also from Asia or Bithynia yields information about the process whereby a Hellenistic kingdom that was in Rome's sphere of interest fell under the Roman tutela as an allied kingdom, and was subsequently annexed, often by bequest, as a Roman province.

This work examines first the impact of Roman rule, by sudden imposition or gradual infiltration, on the official level of the administration, and secondly, it takes in some social and economic issues; the changes in life and religion are touched only incidentally, because there are already specific studies on them. It is also necessary to have it specified that this work does not aim to explain Egypt according to a binary theory of 'continuity versus change,' and considers the view that after the Roman conquest everything 'became Roman' as misleading as the argument that nothing really changed.