Ancient Economies of the Northern Aegean. Fifth to First Centuries BC
are subsumed under‘small world’networks.^34 ‘Interaction’does not just apply to human communities. We also need a more systemati ...
problem already has roots back in the remote past, in a revisionist argument criticizing Eratosthenes and Apollodorus for what S ...
differences in the division of labour between large and small towns (Xen. Cyrop.8.2.5; cf. Xen.Mem.3.10. 9–15: on the unique pro ...
modern about the use of quantities of heavy metal as a medium of exchange. One of the most distinctive features of classical eco ...
an inscription from Ephesus, by which the harbour dues emanating from the whole region of the Black Sea, the Hellespontine Strai ...
Before the introduction of the Asian Tax Law, we must assume that each community was entitled to raise its own taxes and to use ...
markets which, in this particular area, are connected with quite a sur- prising variety of coin. Finley thought about essentials ...
the southern shores of the Black Sea the following summer, we are told that‘there was no market at hand’in that part of northern ...
STATUS AND RANK Finley’s analysis of‘the ancient economy’stemmed from a number of unproven assumptions: that the propertied élit ...
lacked any calculated or systematic knowledge of rational accounting. This is one aspect of Finley’s thesis to which there has b ...
three hundred in the fourth, could afford to pay the most demanding public liturgies, primarily the trierarchy. The enlarged gro ...
Jameson, David Cohen, Robin Osborne, and Lin Foxhall. Morris has identified what he terms a‘middling’ideology among leading grou ...
aspects of everyday material culture; in the avoidance of ostentatious dress, funerary apparel, or grave markers. This new readi ...
Nicolet-Pierre has studied the social significance of gold in the Homeric poems. In the Iliad, in particular, wefind a highly nu ...
asymmetrical relationship to relations during life. The intense invest- ment in mortuary arrangements—the treatment of the corps ...
functions. These men were the Macedonian‘nobility’, the‘principes Macedonum’referred to by Qu. Curtius, whose sons became royal ...
although much of it was intra- rather than inter-regional change. In succeeding chapters, we will see that although there were q ...
have had personal aspirations that were at odds with those of regional administrators, and therefore tried to intervene in polit ...
their precise remit, belie the idea that the rulers of the Odrysian kingdom were traditionally opposed to Athenian interests in ...
The laconic phrases of both historians underplay the magnetic attraction of the north Aegean as a source of potential enrichment ...
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