Author: Hahn, I.; Kakosy, C.; Komoroczy, G.; Maroti, E.; and Sarkady, J., editors:
Title: Oikumene. Studia ad historiam antiquam classicam et orientalem spectantia, 4
Description: Budapest, Akademiai Kiado, 1983. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, 287 pp, Yearbook of the Economic and Social History of the Ancient World, Volume 4. textual photos & maps. dustwrapper's rear cover rubbed, VG, dustwrapper ¶ Contains 21 papers (6 in English, 3 in French, 1 in Italian, 11 in German) . "In the first part all the papers (7) deal with the problems of Athenian democracy; in the second part there are papers on Mesopotamia ,Egypt , Roman politics in the Orient and the traditional topies of oriental and ancient history as well as the theory of history".Includes: E. Ferenczy " Romische Gesandtschaft im Perikleischen Athen"; G. Bockisch "Das Kreis um Theramenes"; G. Kuromoroczy "Die Mesopotamische Mythologie als System"; S. Ratie "Un Osiris alchimique au Musee de Chambery"; L. Pushas "Herodotus and India"; E.Maroti "On the Causes of Carthage's Destruction", etc.

Keywords: Classical Studies, Mesopotamia, Rome, Economic history, Greece, Egypt, theory of history, ,