Ancient Economies of the Northern Aegean. Fifth to First Centuries BC
sense of how these ancient royal economies operated. Paul Millett has recently explored the role of plunder in the Macedonian ec ...
more general label, namely‘command mode’, one of four identifiable economic mechanisms operating in classical antiquity. ‘Comman ...
100,000 mercenaries (including afield army, garrison troops, plus afleet of 80–90 ships).^95 The Successors were obliged to cont ...
with the payment of services by the Successors, whether in the north Aegean region, or farther east. The author of the pseudo-Ar ...
showing Herakles and the eagle of Zeus), bimetallic, like his father’s, began in all probability in 333/32bc, after the battle o ...
established trading giants. Yet, in terms of annual production, leaving aside the altogether exceptional production of coins in ...
broader investigation of how the region’s resources were perceived, exploited and applied. Human societies have used natural res ...
3. Societies and economies THE SOCIAL AND THE ECONOMIC ‘the new peace and the monarchical state, the shift of society’s centre f ...
previous century.^1 Although his name is less frequently evoked today in the context of classical antiquity than it is in connec ...
recent social and economic preoccupations, and particularly with the distinctiveness of Western‘modernity’. Historians and socio ...
early theorists remain important but contested. Among these perhaps the most under-rated phenomenon is the role of markets, a to ...
ancient historians, although there has been a change of strategy during the last decade, albeit a change that has coincided with ...
economies of the past.^9 These debates involve far more than minor scholarly disputes. Differences of perspective result in part ...
commodities or manufactured products, leave alone services. This makes it hard to evaluate the full applicability of the theoret ...
more mechanistic, Spencerian evolution of historical societies as quasi- homogeneous units).^16 Although ancient historians have ...
The short and enigmatic constitutional treatise that found its way erro- neously into the works of Xenophon, together with the g ...
civic magistrates.^23 They are, nevertheless, invaluable as evidence of legally binding processes and procedures. This fact alon ...
The static, caste-dominated view of ancient societies has been chal- lenged from three directions—by a gradualist concept of sta ...
This rationale of Greek state formation incorporates extra-territorial activities and acquisitions, but nevertheless focuses on ...
participants in a network plays an active part in the effectiveness of information transmitted.^29 In the north Aegean area, the ...
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