TY - GEN AU - Chankowski,Véronique TI - Parasites of the God: Accountants, financiers and traders on Hellenistic Delos SN - 978-2-86958-627-7 PY - 2024/// CY - Athènes PB - École française d’Athènes KW - Classics KW - History KW - Griechenland KW - Delos KW - griechische Geschichte KW - griechische Religion KW - religionsgeschichte KW - Wirtschaftsgeschichte KW - Grecia antigua KW - historia griega KW - historia religiosa KW - historia política KW - historiografía antigua KW - historia económica KW - épigraphie grecque KW - Grèce KW - Délos KW - histoire grecque KW - historiographie antique KW - histoire économique KW - histoire religieuse KW - Grecia KW - Delo KW - religione greca KW - storia greca KW - storia religiosa KW - storia economica KW - epigraphy KW - Greece KW - Greek history KW - Greek religion KW - Economic history N1 - Ebook N2 - Freed from Athenian tutelage in 314 BC, at a time of geopolitical changes that marked the beginnings of the Hellenistic period in the Aegean world, Delos gradually consolidated its political and economic independence. During the third and second centuries, the Delian community redefined the central place that the island had continually occupied in the economic, financial and cultural flows of the Mediterranean. This study, mainly based on epigraphic accounting sources, including more than five hundred accounts and engraved inventories that were displayed in the sanctuary of Apollo, but also on numismatic sources and archaeological remains on the seafront, re-considers the question of Delos’ place in the Hellenistic economy. Far from being an exception to be excluded from serialized comparisons, the Delian evidence is indicative of Aegean economic circumstances and demonstrates the capacities of the Greek communities to adapt to change in troubled times. Behind the numbers cut in stone appear human communities and societies whose economic activities shed fresh light on the history of this part of the Mediterranean UR - https://books.openedition.org/efa/16192 ER -