The Ancient Greek Economy. Markets, Households and City-States

346 CRISTINA CARUSI detailed description of the march of Xerxes’ army in Thrace (7.108–16, 121), it is possible to identify the ...

‘VITA hUMANIOR SINE SALE NON QUIT DEGERE’ 347 A higher economic value certainly played a major role in the wide circula- tion of ...

348 CRISTINA CARUSI equal or exceed the demand for dietary and domestic salt of a small or medium community. At present, there i ...

‘VITA hUMANIOR SINE SALE NON QUIT DEGERE’ 349 The wide circulation of the Gaditan products is further demonstrated by the large ...

350 CRISTINA CARUSI with abundant salt resources.^53 Even if the absence of adequate archaeological remains and documentary sour ...

‘VITA hUMANIOR SINE SALE NON QUIT DEGERE’ 351 It is worth emphasizing that the widespread consumption of imported fish sauces an ...

352 CRISTINA CARUSI 5 The same remark had already been made by Braudel 1979 : 178, a propos salt consumption in the Early Modern ...

‘VITA hUMANIOR SINE SALE NON QUIT DEGERE’ 353 the individual pans and between the pans and the canals leave completely open the ...

354 CRISTINA CARUSI 38 In the eyes of ancient authors it was common for people living far from the sea to obtain salt through tr ...

‘VITA hUMANIOR SINE SALE NON QUIT DEGERE’ 355 division of labor, with family-owned small installations probably selling their pr ...

356 16 CLASSICAL GREEK TRADE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Geoffrey Kron This chapter focuses on foreign trade and consumer demand ...

CLASSICAL GREEK TRADE 357 the role of the Piraeus as the principal axis of maritime trade, at least for the Eastern Mediterranea ...

358 GEOffREY KRON 1.133–4). If we accept Hansen’s estimate of the Athenian population, this rep- resents just around 43.5 drachm ...

CLASSICAL GREEK TRADE 359 confidence in their accuracy, as well as suggesting similar levels of integration into broader markets ...

360 GEOffREY KRON 289 in 1835, for example, a year of minimal imports.^32 These massive imports of wheat permitted Athenian farm ...

CLASSICAL GREEK TRADE 361 Merchant ships in the Classical and Hellenistic period of 350–500 tons were therefore by no means unco ...

362 GEOffREY KRON wheat) had increased in size to an average of over 260 tons by the 1630s, with Dutch East India merchant ships ...

CLASSICAL GREEK TRADE 363 very little scope for imports, although tea, coffee, and sugar became critical sources of quick energy ...

364 GEOffREY KRON increased four times in the second half of the 16th century, [and] 1,000 house- holds sampled in seventeenth-c ...

CLASSICAL GREEK TRADE 365 the robust demand for art generated by a prosperous society, with a tolera- bly broad middle class. Na ...