The Civil Service of the Ancient World

EXCEEDINGLY little has been written on the early beginnings of the civil service. The purpose of this paper is to make a modest contribution to our knowledge of the administration of ancient governments. The writer, it should be understood, is neither an archaeologist nor a historian, but merely a student of government who for many years has been especially interested in public personnel administration and has felt a growing need to see the public personnel practices and problems of our time in a longer historical perspective. As historians have given only slight attention to the administrative side of government, he has had to piece together the civil service picture of the ancient world from widely scattered fragments. Needless to say, he did not find all the pieces

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