The ancient Greek economy : markets, households and city-states / Edited by Edward M. Harris, The University of Edinburgh, David M. Lewis, The University of Edinburgh, Mark Woolmer, Durham University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Edward Monroe, editor.

Lewis, David Martin, 1985- editor.

Woolmer, Mark, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Ancient.

Greece--Economic conditions.

Greece.

Greece--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 474 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-42358-1

1-316-42635-1

1-316-42674-2

1-316-42830-3

1-316-42713-7

1-316-42908-3

1-139-56553-2