Ancient Economies of the Northern Aegean. Fifth to First Centuries BC
of Byzantion itself and no monograph on Byzantion has been written since V. P. Newskaja’s, originally published in Russian in 19 ...
to the south-west, Byzantine land bordered that of Selymbria.^109 Most of the ancient sources that provide specific details belo ...
indication of the level of trade in other commodities along this route. The convoy was assembled at Hieron, a harbour on the Asi ...
The Aegean scope of Byzantine activity gives little indication of where the city’s naval strength really lay. In order to unders ...
advantageous position (Plb. 4.38.1–8). The strong maritime focus of Polybius’account, as well as its nice political perspectives ...
dependency by the same Alkibiades, in 408bc(Thuc. 8.80.3; Xen.Hell. 1.3.15). Not so Kalchedon, which, save for the year when Alk ...
the region between Apollonia Pontika and Perinthos, as being part of Byzantine territory. The likeliest period of the city’s exp ...
markets by sea, but by no means all. As I have argued in Chapter 4, large quantities of live animals on the hoof and cured hides ...
inhabitants; they quarrelled among themselves because, says Polybius (31.2.12),‘they were unaccustomed to democratic and represe ...
age. We glimpse this caste in the late archaic coinage of the Pangaion area, where rulers’names appear on coin legends alongside ...
dedicatory inscriptions indicates a regional organization offifty units (Pl. HN4.40). Exactly how these regional units might be ...
6. The lure of the northern Aegean BOUNDARY CONDITIONS The previous chapter began by looking at broad commodityflows throughout ...
peoples had built up a thirst for Aegean wines and oil; but also because the east Balkan–north Aegean‘super-region’had become ec ...
headquarters, seized merchant ships exiting the Straits: 6.5.26). Yet, at the start of the period covered in this book, the nort ...
for traders in the Pistiros inscription, as we have seen in Chapter 5. The mechanism of bilateral trade agreements made it easy ...
larger denominations were intended for major expenditure. The same kinds of agreements must also have existed with the Macedonia ...
should be included in an economic landscape of the remote past. Reflect- ing on what may have been the boundary conditions in an ...
ABDERA—A CAUTIONARY TALE? The story of Abdera is a lesson about social choices. Thefirst inhabitants of what was to become the a ...
pressure on the coastal cities of Ionia. At least, that is how Herodotus presents the situation, within the context of the impen ...
exclusively in coins, namely Saratokos, whose bronze issues follow the minor bronze of Thasos.^18 Visible, demonstrable connecti ...
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