Trade, Traders and the Ancient City

✍ Scribed by Helen Parkins, Christopher Smith

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection addresses the nature of trade, and the effects it had in cities throughout the ancient world, from the Bronze Age Near East to late Roman northern Italy, and challenges the received notion of the unsophisticated nature of early trade. The book explores a variety of aspects of ancient trade, a study of archaic central Italy which stresses the role of the artisan in social development, and a discussion of the complex issue of the exchange of grain between Athens and the Black Sea in the fifth and fourth centuries. A comprehensive and well-researched book, this volume employs the most current archaeological, papyrological, epigraphic and literary evidence to offer innovative and stimulating analyses of the importance and influence of trade in the ancient world.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 10
List of figures and tables......Page 7
Notes on contributors......Page 9
List of abbreviations......Page 11
1 Time for change?......Page 14
2 The Old Assyrian merchants......Page 28
3 Traders and artisans in archaic central Italy......Page 44
4 Trade on the Black Sea in the archaic and classical periods......Page 64
5 Ceramics and positivism revisited......Page 86
6 The grain trade of Athens in the fourth century BC......Page 112
7 Land transport in Roman Italy......Page 138
8 Trade and traders in the Roman world......Page 158
9 Trade and the city in Roman Egypt......Page 178
10 Trading gods in northern Italy......Page 212
11 Ancient economies: models and muddles......Page 234
Index......Page 266