Format:
1 online resource (284 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415165174
,
9780203979037
Content:
This comprehensive and well-documented book provides a critically up-to-date analysis of trade in the ancient world, which takes into account a diverse range of evidence
Note:
Cover -- TRADE, TRADERS AND THE ANCIENT CITY -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Time for change? Shaping the future of the ancient economy -- 2 The Old Assyrian merchants -- 3 Traders and artisans in archaic central Italy -- 4 Trade on the Black Sea in the archaic and classical periods: some observations -- 5 Ceramics and positivism revisited: Greek transport amphoras and history -- 6 The grain trade of Athens in the fourth century BC -- 7 Land transport in Roman Italy: costs, practice and the economy -- 8 Trade and traders in the Roman world: scale, structure, and organisation -- 9 Trade and the city in Roman Egypt -- 10 Trading gods in northern Italy -- 11 Ancient economies: models and muddles -- Indexes -- 1 GENERAL INDEX -- 2 INDEX OF ANCIENT AUTHORS -- 3 INDEX OF INSCRIPTIONS -- 4 INDEX OF PAPYRI AND OSTRACA
Additional Edition:
Print version Parkins, Helen Trade, Traders and the Ancient City Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1998 ISBN 9780415165174
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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