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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779980703321

Autore

Swain Simon

Titolo

Economy, family, and society from Rome to Islam : a critical edition, English translation, and study of Bryson's Management of the estate / / Simon Swain [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23635-5

1-107-35764-0

1-107-34908-7

1-107-61513-5

1-107-34802-1

1-107-34552-9

1-139-17807-5

1-107-34177-9

1-107-34427-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 573 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

Brysōn

Disciplina

305.52093763

Soggetti

Elite (Social sciences) - Rome

Rome Social conditions Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bryson's Management of the estate : English translation -- Background. Introduction ; Text and transmission -- Economy. Property ; Slaves -- Family. The wife ; The boy -- Text and translations of Bryson.

Sommario/riassunto

Bryson's Management of the Estate (Oikonomikos Logos) offers advice on the key private concerns of the Roman elite: getting rich, managing slaves, love and marriage, bringing up children. This estate owner is a farmer and a merchant, making his money through good and effective business. His wife is co-owner of the estate and their love promotes material prosperity. Their child needs twenty-four hour supervision in 'all his affairs'. Bryson's book was almost certainly written in the mid-first century AD, but survives mainly in Arabic. It had a profound effect on Islamic thinking on the economy and on marriage, but is virtually



unknown to classicists. This new edition of the text together with the first English translation will appeal to Roman social and economic historians, students of imperial Greek literature and all those interested in the development of Greco-Roman thought in the Islamic empire of the Middle Ages.