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1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 474 pages)
ISBN:
9781139565530
Content:
The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy specialising in history, economics, archaeology and numismatics. Marshalling a wide array of evidence, these essays investigate and analyse the role of market-exchange in the economy of the ancient Greek world, demonstrating the central importance of markets for production and exchange of goods and services during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Contributors draw on evidence from literary texts and inscriptions, household archaeology, amphora studies and numismatics. Together, the essays provide an original and compelling approach to the issue of explaining economic growth in the ancient Greek world.
Content:
1. Introduction: Markets in classical and Hellenistic Greece / Edward M. Harris and David M. Lewis -- Part I. Creating the Foundations of Market Exchange: The Role of the State -- 2. Aristotle and foreign trade / Alain Bresson (translated by Edward M. Harris) -- 3. Forging links between regions: trade policy in classical Athens / Mark Woolmer -- 4. Choosing and changing monetary standards in the Greek world during the Archaic and the Classical periods / Selene E. Psoma -- 5. The legal foundations of economic growth in ancient Greece: the role of property records / Edward M. Harris -- Part II. Household Production for Markets -- 6. Industry structure and income opportunities for households in Classical Athens / Peter Acton -- 7. Whole cloth: exploring the question of self-sufficiency through the evidence for textile manufacture and purchase in Greek houses / Barbara Tsakirgis -- 8. Agricultural production and domestic activities in rural Hellenistic Greece / Evi Margaritis -- Part III. Markets and Trade Networks: The Evidence of Transport Amphoras -- 9. Patterns of amphora stamp distribution: tracking down export tendencies / Tania Panagou -- 10. The markets, amphora trade and wine industry: the case of Thasos / Chavdar Tzochev -- 11. Transport amphoras, markets, and changing practices in the economies of Greece, sixth to first centuries BCE / Mark L. Lawall -- Part IV. Markets, Commodities and Trade Networks -- 12. Aeglean-Levantine trade, 600-300 BCE: commodities, consumers, and the problem of Autarkeia / Peter van Alfen -- 13. Towards a general model of long-distance trade: aromatics as a case study / John K. Davies -- 14. The market for slaves in the fifth- and fourth-century Aegean: Achaemenid Anatolia as a case study / David M. Lewis -- 15. 'Vita humanior sine sale non quit degere': demand for salt and salt trade patterns in the ancient Greek world / Cristina Carusi -- 16. Classical Greek trade in comparative perspective / Geoffrey Kron
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107035881
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107035881
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als The ancient Greek economy Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016 ISBN 9781108456173
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107035881
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Griechenland
;
Wirtschaft
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139565530
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