The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy

542 Pages·2022·3.127 MB·English

by  Sitta von Reden

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HE AMBRIDGE OMPANION TO
THE ANCIENT GREEK ECONOMY
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This is the most comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy
availableinEnglish.Ateamofhighlydistinguishedspecialistsprovidesinnon-
technical language cutting-edge accounts of a wide range of key themes in
economic history, explaining how ancient Greek economies functioned and
changed, and why they were stable and successful over long periods of time.
Throughitswidegeographicalperspective,reachingfromtheAegeanandthe
Black Sea to the Near East and Egypt under Greek rule, it reflects on how
economic behaviour and institutions were formed and transformed under
different political, ecological, and social circumstances, and how they inter-
actedandcommunicatedoverlargedistances.Withchaptersonclimateandthe
environment, market development, inequality, and growth, it encourages
comparisons with other periods of time and cultures, thus being of interest
not just to ancient historians but also to readers concerned with economic
culturesandglobaleconomicissues.
SittavonReden isProfessorof AncientHistoryat theUniversity of Freiburg.
HerpreviousbooksincludeExchangeinAncientGreece(1995),MoneyinPtolemaic
Egypt (2007), and Money in Classical Antiquity (2010). In 2017, she won an
Advanced Grant from the European Research Council for a global economic
history project entitled ‘Beyond the Silk Road: Exchange, Economic
Development and Inter-Imperial Relationships in the Afro-Eurasian World
Region(300bce–300ce)’.

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GREEK ECONOMY
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ONTENTS
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ListofMaps pageviii
NotesontheContributors ix
ListofAbbreviations xiv
Maps xix
1 Introduction 1
SITTA VON REDEN
P D P 13
ART I IACHRONIC ERSPECTIVES
2 EarlyIronAgeEconomies 15
IRENE S. LEMOS
3 TheArchaicPeriod 29
HANS VAN WEES
4 TheClassicalPeriod 49
EMILY MACKIL
5 HellenisticEconomies 61
SITTA VON REDEN
P R P 75
ART II EGIONAL ERSPECTIVES
6 AsiaMinor 77
ANDREAS VICTOR WALSER
7 NorthernGreeceandtheBlackSea 94
ZOSIA H. ARCHIBALD
8 AthensandtheAegean 106
SYLVIAN FACHARD AND ALAIN BRESSON
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CONTENTS
9 EgyptandthePtolemaicEmpire 124
CHRISTELLE FISCHER-BOVET
10 HellenisticBabylonia 139
HILMAR KLINKOTT
P S P 151
ART III TRUCTURES AND ROCESSES
11 Population 153
BEN AKRIGG
12 Consumption,Nutrition,andtheGrainSupply 172
JOHN WILKINS
13 TheAgriculturalEconomy 186
DANIEL JEW
14 TheNon-AgriculturalEconomy:Artisans,Traders,
Women,andSlaves 202
DANIEL JEW
15 Markets 221
ALAIN BRESSON
16 Money,Credit,andBanking 237
DAVID M. SCHAPS
17 DisputeResolution 250
KAJA HARTER-UIBOPUU
18 TaxationandTribute 264
ANDREW MONSON
P N 279
ART IV ETWORKS
19 ReligiousNetworks 281
VÉRONIQUE CHANKOWSKI
20 MonetaryNetworks 298
PETER VAN ALFEN
21 SocialNetworks,AssociationsandTrade 313
VINCENT GABRIELSEN
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CONTENTS
P P 329
ART V ERFORMANCE
TheoreticalApproaches 331
22 PoliticalEconomyandtheGrowthof
MarketsandCapital 331
ARMIN EICH
23 NewInstitutionalEconomics,EconomicGrowth,
andInstitutionalChange 347
SITTA VON REDEN AND BARBARA KOWALZIG
24 Regionalism,Federalism,andMediterraneanConnectivity 360
EMILY MACKIL
EmpiricalApproaches 373
25 Climate,Environment,andResources 373
STURT W. MANNING
26 TechnologicalProgress 392
SERAFINA CUOMO
27 Inequality 404
JOSIAH OBER AND WALTER SCHEIDEL
References 421
Index 478
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APS
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0.1 GreeceandtheAegean pagexix
0.2 TheBlackSea xx
0.3 AsiaMinor xxi
0.4 Egypt xxii
0.5 BabyloniaandSeleucidIran xxiii
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OTES ON THE ONTRIBUTORS
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BEN AKRIGG is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at
theUniversityofToronto.HeistheauthorofPopulationandEconomy
inClassicalAthens(2019)andtheco-editor,withRobTordoff(York
University),ofSlavesandSlaveryinAncientGreekComicDrama(2013).
ZOSIA H. ARCHIBALD teaches Ancient History and Classical
Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. She has co-directed
fieldwork at two key urban sites, Adziyska Vodenitsa (ancient
Pistirus), central Bulgaria (1999–2013), and Olynthus, Chalcidice
(2014–19). Her most recent book is The Power of Individual and
Community in Ancient Athens and Beyond: Essays in Honour of John
K.Davies(2019),editedwithJanHaywood.
ALAINBRESSONisProfessorattheUniversityofChicago.Heisthe
author of La cité marchande (2001) and of The Making of the Ancient
GreekEconomy(2016),andheispreparinganewbookontheroleof
moneyinancientGreece.
VÉRONIQUE CHANKOWSKI is Director of the French School of
AthensandProfessorofAncientEconomyandAegeanHistoryatthe
University of Lyon 2. As an epigraphist who also works with arch-
aeological sources, she has published several studies on the ancient
Greek economy. Her most recent book is Parasites du dieu.
Comptables,financiersetcommerçantsdanslaDéloshellénistique(2019).
SERAFINA CUOMO is Professor of Ancient History at Durham
University.Shehaswrittenonthehistoryofmathematicsandtech-
nologyinantiquity.Sheiscurrentlycompletingabookonnumeracy
inancientGreeceandRome.
ARMIN EICH is Professor of Ancient History at the University of
Wuppertal and has published a comprehensive monograph on the
ancient Greek economy, Die politische Ökonomie des antiken
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NOTES ONTHECONTRIBUTORS
Griechenland(2006).Hismaininterestsincludethehistoryofancient
economies, especially the interdependence of fiscal, economic, pol-
itical,andmilitarystructures,warandpeaceinantiquity,andancient
literatureandepigraphy.
SYLVIAN FACHARD is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the
University of Lausanne and Director of the Swiss School of
Archaeology in Greece. He published La défense du territoire (2012)
andispreparingabookonthebordersofAtticawhileworkingonthe
publicationoftheMaziArchaeologicalProject(Attica).
CHRISTELLE FISCHER-BOVET is Associate Professor of Classics
andHistoryattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia.Shespecialises
in the social and cultural history of the eastern Mediterranean from
AlexandertheGreattotheRomans,withaspecialinterestinGreco-
Roman Egypt. Her book Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt (2014)
combines documentary evidence with social theory to examine the
role of the army in Hellenistic Egypt. She also co-edited with Sitta
von Reden Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires, Integration,
CommunicationandResistance(2021).
VINCENTGABRIELSENisProfessorofAncientHistoryattheSaxo
Institute of the University of Copenhagen and a member of the
RoyalDanishAcademyofSciencesandLetters.Hisresearchinterests
include economic and maritime history and the history of private
associations.
KAJA HARTER-UIBOPUU earned her PhD at the University of
Graz, subsequently working at the Department of Roman Law and
Legal History as well as at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in
Vienna. Since 2015, she has been Professor of Ancient History at
the University of Hamburg. She has published widely on Greek
epigraphy and ancient legal history, especially concerning the Law
ofProcedureintheGreekpoleis.
DANIELJEWisSeniorLecturerinHistoryandDirectorofStudiesat
the College ofAlice & Peter Tan within the National University of
Singapore. He is co-editor of M. I. Finley: An Ancient Historian and
His Impact (2016) and author of a forthcoming monograph, The
ProbablePast:AgricultureandCarryingCapacityinAncientGreece.
HILMAR KLINKOTT is Professor of Ancient History at the
University of Kiel. His main fields of research are the history and
administrationoftheAchaemenid,Ptolemaic,andSeleucidempires.
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