Making, Moving and Managing
The New World of Ancient Economies, 323-31 BC
Published on 10. December 2004
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-1-84217-157-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume of essays approaches the issues involved in the study of ancient economies in terms of their active components - the producers, the organisers, and the transporters. By taking a closer look at how these elements interacted, the contributors have reconstituted the elements of economic behaviour in the ancient world, to show how institutional mechanisms (money supply; the encouragement of city foundations; markets; royal palaces) created frameworks within which goods (oil and wine, cereals, perfumes, ceramics) and services were exchanged. Each chapter engages with the theoretical and material aspects of one of these topics in an original way. The result is an up-to-date approach to ancient economies, which attempts to bridge the gap between the micro scale of small independent communities and the macro scale of territorial powers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 170 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84217-157-8 (9781842171578)
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Schweitzer Classification
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edited by Zofia H Archibald, John K Davies and Vincent Gabrielsen
Content
Contributors; Foreword; Abbreviations; Markets and exchange: the structure and scale of economic behaviour in the Hellenistic Age (Zofia H Archibald); City building and the Seleucid royal economy (G G Aperghis); Coinage and money supply in the Hellenistic Age (Alain Bresson); A quantitative survey of Hellenistic coinages: recent achievements (Francois de Callatay); Inscribed instrumenta domestica and the economy of Hellenistic and Roman Crete (Angelos Chaniotis); The economic consequences of Hellenistic palaces (John Davies); Banking and credit operations in the Hellenistic world (Vincent Gabrielsen); Greek fineware imports at a rural site in the north-western Crimea in the early Hellenistic period (Lise Hannestad); Amphoras and Hellenistic economies: addressing the (over-)emphasis on stamped amphora handles (Mark Lawall); The making, moving and managing of Eastern Sigitalla A (John Lund); The manufacture and distribution of perfume (Gary Reger); The oath of Chersonesos and the Chersonesean economy in the early Hellenistic period (Vladimir Stolba); Problems in ancient imitative and counterfeit coinage (Peter van Alfen); Index of sources; General index.