Ancient Economies of the Northern Aegean. Fifth to First Centuries BC
Herodotus, as we have seen at the end of Chapter 3, has quite a lot to say about the economic consequences of the Persian presen ...
geographical space of the Aegean and Near East in a dualist manner, that is, in terms of‘Greeks’and‘non-Greeks’. The combined ev ...
‘mainland’, those who‘dwelt by the sea’, or those‘beyond the sea’, in the terms familiar from Greek accounts—Ionians, Athenians, ...
territory of the Odrysian kingdom proper. Louisa Loukopoulou has restudied the inscriptions preserved on some of the vessels in ...
metaphysical purposes.^76 Stronach and Zournatzi have argued that the point of Thucydides’contrast between Thracian and Persian ...
Dardanians of Upper Macedonia were allowed access to salt from the coast, which was taken to Stobi in Paionia (Liv. 45.29.12–13) ...
commodities, travelled by rivers. The availability of water transport is another of the key linking factors in our‘super-region’ ...
environs of Pella.^85 Pikoulas has also investigated roads in the area of Mount Pangaion, partly for comparative purposes, inclu ...
The passage is opaque and requires some imagination to make sense of it. But the two components of the sentence must be understo ...
region have more to do with modern preoccupations about identities than they do with ancient institutional practice. Ancient per ...
tofind. Gold and silver coins have value today and stimulate interest. Copper alloy coins have, historically speaking, rarely be ...
inclination from north-east to south-west, which necessitated terracing of the structures behind a central piazza, which measure ...
recorded. An elaborate system of pipes and drains carried waste water under the walls and surrounding roadways, while fresh wate ...
farther away from theagora.^96 The products of commerce recovered from the excavation of theagoraitself are closely tied to the ...
late antique itineraries as Bona Mansio, 2 km north–east of the river port at Adjiyska Vodenitsa (Hadji’s water mill), near Vetr ...
powerful two-faced masonry fortification wall, which protected a dense concentration of structures, including one (Building no. ...
Pontika, point to other commercial travellers.^102 As I have argued above, the mechanisms for ensuring the supply of any commodi ...
purity of Attic silver money. However, this does not mean that false coins were not accepted in other transactions. The existenc ...
plan of this building, with three long, narrow rooms and a stone waste- water channel (perhaps associated with industrial proces ...
If merchants really were travelling so far inland, what were they hoping to take back in the opposite direction? The most plausi ...
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