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130 Pace Foxhall 2007 : 37: ‘the primary aims of small-scale farmers were likely to have been be
(sic) self-sufficiency and survival.’ For a less pessimistic picture of peasant farmers, see Kron
2008 , although he concentrates mainly on Roman peasants.
131 It has proven popular among some historians to characterize the Greek polis as a ‘stateless’
community (Hunter 1994 ; Behrent 2000). This view is untenable: see Hansen 1998 : 37–40;
Harris 2013 : 21–59.
132 For this view, see Bissa 2009 ; Engen 2010.
133 North 1981 : 36.
134 On the Greek stoa, see Coulton 1976.
135 On agoranomoi and other market officials in the Greek cities, see Fantasia 2012 and the essays
about Greek cities in Capdetrey and Hasenohr 2012 , especially Oliver 2012.
136 For weights and measures at Athens, see, for example, Crosby and Lang 1964.
137 North 1990 : 5.