Hahn I. - Kákossy L. - Maróti E. - Sarkady J. (szerk.): Oikumene II. - Studia ad historiam antiquam classicam et orientalem spectantia 2. (Budapest, 1978)
OIHUMENE Studia ad historiam antiquam classicam orientalem spectantia Edited by I. Hahn, L. Kákosy, E. Maróti and J. Sarkadi The second volume of the Oikumene Annual continues the project started with the first volume published in 1976. Sixteen Hungarian and two foreign scholars present papers dealing with the analogies and development of the inhabited areas of the ancient world that constituted the classically conceived “Oikumene”. The authors are mostly interested in problems which are suitable for a differentiation between the social features common to the whole of the ancient world and those that are unique to certain societies. This volume consists of two parts. The first contains studies based on lectures given at a Budapest conference in 1974, focusing on the controversial issues of the Asiatic mode of production. The studies in the second part of the volume do not constitute a coherent thematical unit. They analyse the social background of certain phenomena in such spheres as law, art, philosophy and religion. This volume will certainly help to acquaint the reader with the endeavours and achievements of the Hungarian scholars of ancient history. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences BUDAPEST S I AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ, BUDAPEST