edited by Edward M. Harris, the University of Edinburgh, David M. Lewis, the University of Edinburgh, Mark Woolmer, Durham University.
First paperback edition
New York
Cambridge University Press,
2018. 2016
xiii, 474 : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 26 cm
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. Aristotle and foreign trade / Alain Bresson (translated by Edward M. Harris) Forging links between regions: trade policy in classical Athens / Mark Woolmer Choosing and changing monetary standards in the Greek world during the Archaic and the Classical periods / Selene E. Psoma The legal foundations of economic growth in ancient Greece: the role of property records / Edward M. Harris -- Part II. Household Production for Markets. Industry structure and income opportunities for households in Classical Athens / Peter Acton Whole cloth: exploring the question of self-sufficiency through the evidence for textile manufacture and purchase in Greek houses / Barbara Tsakirgis Agricultural production and domestic activities in rural Hellenistic Greece / Evi Margaritis -- Part III. Markets and Trade Networks: The Evidence of Transport Amphoras. Patterns of amphora stamp distribution: tracking down export tendencies / Tania Panagou The markets, amphora trade and wine industry: the case of Thasos / Chavdar Tzochev 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. Aeglean-Levantine trade, 600-300 BCE: commodities, consumers, and the problem of Autarkeia / Peter van Alfen Towards a general model of long-distance trade: aromatics as a case study / John K. Davies The market for slaves in the fifth- and fourth-century Aegean: Achaemenid Anatolia as a case study / David M. Lewis 'Vita humanior sine sale non quit degere': demand for salt and salt trade patterns in the ancient Greek world / Cristina Carusi Classical Greek trade in comparative perspective / Geoffrey Kron.
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