Table Of ContentTHE ANCIENT ECONOMY
THE ANCIENT
ECONOMY
Edited by
Walter Scheidel and Sitta von Reden
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Contents
Acknowledgements
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Note to the Reader
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Abbreviations IX
Glossary Xlll
Maps XV111
Introduction
I
PART I AFTER FINLEY
The Economy (Economies) of Ancient Greece
I II
Paul Cartledge
2 Twenty Years after Moses I. Finley's The Ancient
Economy 33
Jean Andreau; translated by Antonia Nevill
PART II PRODUCTION
3 Traditional and Ancient Rural Economy in
Mediterranean Europe: plus <;a change? 53
Paul Halstead
4 Olive Production and the Roman Economy:
The Case for Intensive Growth in the Roman Empire 71
Robert Bruce Hitchner
PART III MONEY AND MARKETS
5 Money and Mythic History: The Contestation of
Transactional Orders in the Fifth Century BC
Leslie Kurke
VI Contents
6 Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Subsistence:
Exchange and Society in the Greek City II4
Robin Osborne
7 The Price Histories of Some Imported Goods on
Independent Delos I33
Gary Reger
8 The Ancient Economy and Graeco-Roman Egypt I55
Dominic Rathbone
PART IV TRADE AND TRANSFER
9 Agricultural Products Transported in Amphorae:
Oil and Wine I73
Clementina Panella and Andre Tchernia;
translated by Antonia Nevill
IO Rome, Taxes, Rents and Trade
Keith Hopkins
PART V THE NATURE OF THE ANCIENT ECONOMY
I I Modernism, Economics and the Ancient Economy 233
Scott Meikle
I2 Framing the Debate over Growth in the Ancient
Economy
Richard Saller
Intellectual Chronology 270
Guide to Further Reading 272
Index 279
Acknowledgements
The sources of the readings in each chapter are given in the foot
notes. The editors and publishers thank the copyright holders for
permission to include the material in this book. The editors and
publishers also thank Cambridge University Press for permission
to reprint maps 1-3, which are taken from P. Jones and K. Sidwell,
The World of Rome, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1997,
maps I, 2 and 3.
We are grateful to Leslie Kurke and Richard Saller for providing
us with previously unpublished work for this volume, to an anony
mous reader for perceptive comments that encouraged us to broaden
the scope of our selection, to Antonia Nevill for speedy and com
petent translations from the French, and to John Davey of Edinburgh
University Press for his patient support and advice.
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Note to the Reader
The articles included in this volume were, with two exceptions, orig
inally published in a range of different journals and books. A degree
of uniformity has been imposed (for example, in the abbreviations
used), but many of the conventions of the original pieces have been
preserved. This applies to spelling and punctuation (UK or US) and
to different modes of referencing: chapters using the Harvard system
(giving name and date) are followed by individual bibliographies,
whereas those using 'short titles' usually have footnotes and no bibli
ography. (In Chapter 10, the author uses Harvard-style references as
'short titles'.)
The two exceptions published here for the first time are Chapters
5 and 12. The latter, by Richard Saller, will appear shortly after the
publication of this volume in J. Manning and I. Morris (eds), The
Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models, Stanford University Press.
Editorial notes and translations of ancient texts are introduced
either within square brackets [] or in daggered footnotes t. Some
Greek terms, especially those in use in English, have been trans
literated.
All abbreviations of ancient texts, modern collections, books and
journals used in this volume are listed and explained on the pages
following. Full references to the works of ancient authors given in the
original articles have not been changed. We hope that the absence of
abbreviations from the 'Guide to Further Reading' will make it easier
to use.
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Abbreviations
1 ABBREVIATIONS OF REFERENCES TO
ANCIENT SOURCES
Aelian VH Aelian, Varia Historia (Miscellany)
Arist. Pol. Aristotle, Politics
Aristoph. Aristophanes
Ath. Pol. Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia (Athenian
Constitution)
Athen. Athenaeus
BAfr. [Caesar], Bellum Africanum (African War)
Cato, De Agr. Cato, De Agri Cultura (On Farming)
Cod. Theod. Codex Theodosianus (Theodosian Code)
Columella, Rust. Columella, De Re Rustica (On Farming)
Dig. Digesta (Digest)
D.S. Diodorus Siculus
Gal. Galen
Hdt. Herodotus
Hes. Hesiod
Theog. Theogony
W&D Works and Days
Mart. Martial
NE Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Nep. Cornelius Nepos
Them. Themistocles
Or. Aelius Aristides, Orationes (Speeches)
Paus. Pausanias
Pindar Pindar
o. Olympian Ode
P. Pythian Ode
Plin. Ep. Pliny (the Younger), Epistulae (Letters)
Plin. HN Pliny (the Elder), Historia Naturalis
(Natural History)
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