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Honor and Profit: Athenian Trade Policy
by Darel Tai Engen
This reassessment of the Greek economy in the late fifth and fourth centuries BC serves as a corrective to the outdated Finleyite view of the ancient economy. Drawing on substantive economic theory, it examines the privileges that Athens granted in return for services related to trade and analyses how honour and profit, traditional values and impersonal market forces, coexisted. 410p (University of Michigan Press 2010)
Hardback. Price GB £75.50
The Economy of the Greek Cities, From the Archaic Period to the Early Roman Empire
by Leopold Migeotte
This introduction to the Ancient Greek economy has proved popular in France, and has also been translated into Italian and Greek; this first English edition is of the second French edition of 2007. Migeotte tries to avoid getting bogged down in the theoretical debates which have characterised the last half-century of research on the ancient economy, instead providing a survey first of institutions and frameworks (the polis in particular) and then ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.95
Hardback. Price GB £34.95
Feeding the Ancient Greek City
edited by Richard Alston and Onno M. Van Nijf
In ancient cities, 'daily bread' was a subject of prayer. Grain-harvests could be fickle, but a regular supply was a matter of survival. Food-shortage could lead to social unrest, and long-term solutions required all kinds of political an institutional resources from the authorities. Yet feeding the city was not just a problem. It was an opportunity for the political management of the poor, for competitive display among the elite, and for making ...
Hardback. Price GB £95.00
Feeding the Democracy: The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC
by Alfonso Moreno
The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not a new phenomenon. Classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the largest and historically most important of the ancient Greek city-states, depended for its survival on the constant importation of grain from overseas lands as remote as Ukraine and southern Russia, ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £29.99
Hardback. Price GB £91.00
Warriors into Traders: the Power of the Market in Early Greece
by David W. Tandy
An economic study of the emergence of the Greek civilisation in the eighth century BC. It argues that an important element in the development of Greek culture were changes in the distribution of wealth and status in society. One of the most significant catalysts was the introduction of markets to replace institutions which had been responsible for redistributing wealth. This was coupled with large-scale population growth. He draws his evidence ...
Paperback. Price GB £13.95
Financing the Athenian Fleet
by Vincent Gabrielsen
Subtitled `Public taxation and social relations' this is a full study of `trierarchy', the arrangement by which wealthy citizens became responsible for financing and commanding much of the Athenian fleet. The author examines how this concentration of military power in the hands of a few individuals could co-exist with democracy. He also uses a rich variety of sources, particularly inscribed naval records, to survey the equipment and organisation ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.00
Amphoras and the Ancient Wine Trade (Agora Picture Book 6)
by Virginia Grace
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £2.50, Our Price GB £1.00
Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC
edited by Zosia H. Archibald, John K. Davies and Victor Gabrielsen
The contributors to this volume define the distinctive economic features of the Hellenistic Age and the ways in which they have had an enduring effect on global cultural patterns. Case studies look at management and institutions; human mobility and ...
Hardback. Price GB £85.00
Economy and Economics of Ancient Greece
by Takeshi Amemiya
This is an extremely wide ranging survey. Starting with a brief outline of Greek history, and picking out some salient features of Greek culture, it then gives a through picture of the prevailing controversy over the nature of the ancient Greek economy ...
Hardback. Price GB £70.00
Delos, Carthage, Ampurias: The Housing of Three Mediterranean Trading Centres
by Birgit Tang
'This monograph investigates the urban housing of the three Mediterranean trading centres of Delos, Carthage and Ampurias, from the 4th century BC to the 1st century AD, focusing on the period from the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. These trading centres were ...
Hardback. Price GB £115.00
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