Ancient Economies of the Northern Aegean. Fifth to First Centuries BC
CONTINENTAL TRADE The ancient coastal harbour towns of the north Aegean (Fig. 2.2) were dominated by a commercial network of Gre ...
spat, it was perfectly possible for one state to deny another access to its markets, because commercial transactions between sta ...
enhanced this strategy by encouraging the‘Northern League’of cities with shared economic interests. Traffic in antiquity was, fo ...
as offshoots from major civic centres in Aegean Greece, these ports conducted close trading relations with their continental nei ...
south.^35 Nevertheless, the north has certainly not been neglected by scholarship. Four individuals are singled out here to illu ...
and the Thracians themselves were from an early date expert viticultural- ists. It is therefore highly probable that from very e ...
In their magnificent and immensely erudite survey of historyof,not in, the Mediterranean, Horden and Purcell have rejected Rosto ...
Andrew Sherratt’s continental merry-go-round Moses Finley’sThe Ancient Economypromoted the view that long- distance patterns of ...
contracts, loans, bank deposit accounts, and various kinds of taxes, were widespread within the time span examined here. But tha ...
slave labour needs to be integrated with free labourers into a broader set of costs and prices, since that is how slaves appear ...
significant changes within patterns of exchange at considerable dis- tances, which have clear economic implications: Mycenaean G ...
as a whole. Sherratt could not demonstrate the political form of the network, or the ways in which it may have been protected or ...
Velkov’s principal scholarly focus was, throughout his career, the settlement history of Thrace under the Roman Empire, particul ...
Velkov was disinclined to speculate and eschewed theoretical exposition, preferring to explore the available evidence as fully a ...
para, and–dizafrequently became civic entities over the course of time. How should such sites be compared, at early stages of t ...
which justified every superlative adjective that historians, ancient and modern, had heaped upon the economic success of the kin ...
and of grave goods, is noticeably different from that of the Early Iron Age burials in the same cemetery, and even from more rec ...
and the development of overland routes, are central to understanding how the landscape contributed to wealth and revenues beyond ...
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2. Herdsmen with golden leaves—narratives and spaces COMPOSING A NARRATIVE The limits of political narratives Although the grand ...
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