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

(Rick Simeone) #1

THE LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC GROwTH 143


Tribe of Seller Tribe of Buyer Purchase Price


  1. Thestias Thryesis 500 dr.

  2. Eleithyias Thryesis 1,000 dr.

  3. Thestias n.p. 4,950 dr.

  4. City City 700 dr.

  5. Thestias and Eleithyias Eleithyias 6,000 dr.

  6. Donakis Thestias 650 dr.

  7. Thestias Thestias 2,500 dr.

  8. Donakis Eleithyias 5,000 dr.

  9. Eleithyias City 8,000 dr.

  10. City Klymenis 4,000 dr.

  11. Thestias Eleithyias 900 dr.

  12. Thestias Heraclides 2,500 dr.

  13. City, Thestias Heraclides 300 dr.

  14. Heraclides City, Thestias 300 dr.

  15. Thestias Thryesis 1,400 dr.

  16. City Eschatiotes n.p.


Purchase Prices


Less than 500 dr. – 15 total – #9 (235 dr.), #12 (400 dr.), #14 (400 dr.), #17


(400 dr.), #18 (500 dr.), #20 (120 dr.), #25 (250 dr.), #26 (400 dr.), #27 (450


dr.), #29 (60 dr.), #30 (100 dr.), #31 (100 dr.), #32 (500 dr.), #44 (300 dr.),


#45 (300 dr.)


Between 501 dr. and 1,000 dr. – 7 total – #19 (670 dr.), #24 (750 dr.), #28 (850


dr.), #33 (1,000 dr.), #35 (700 dr.), #37 (650 dr.), #42 (900 dr.)


Between 1,001 dr. and 2,000 dr. – 4 total – #7 (1,678 dr. 3 obols), #11 (1,287


dr. 4 obols), #16 (1,700 dr.), #46 (1,400 dr.)


Between 2,001 dr. and, 3000 dr. – 6 total – #1 (2,500 dr.), #10 (2,300 dr.), #15


(2,070 dr.), #21 (2,400 dr.), #38 (2,500 dr.), #43 (2,500 dr.)


Between 3,001 dr. and 4,000 dr. – 2 total – #22 (3,700 dr.), #41 (4,000 dr.).


Over 4000 dr. – 6 total – #8 (5,000 dr.), #23 (4,700 dr.), #34 (4,950 dr.), #36


(6,000 dr.), #39 (5,000 dr.), #40 (8,000 dr.)


Purchases relating to real security – 6 total – #5 (price not preserved), #7 (1,678


dr. 3 obols), #16 (1,700 dr.), #30 (100 dr.), #39 (5,000 dr.), #46 (1,400 dr.)


Sales in which the buyer and seller come from the same region – 7 total – #7,


#9, #13, #22, #29, #35, #36


Sales in which the buyer and seller come from different regions – 31 total – #6,


#8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #15, #16, #17, #20, #21, #23, #24, #25, #26, #27, #30,


#31, #32, #33, #37, #38, #39, #40, #41, #42, #43, #44, #45, #46, #47


NOTES


1 de Soto 2000 : 45. In this chapter I use the spelling of Attic demes used by Traill 1975.
2 de Soto 2000 : 47–62.
3 de Soto 2000 : 57.

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