Hellenistic Economies

by Archibald,Zofia H.

• ISBN13: 9780415234665
• ISBN10: 0415234662
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The book breaks new ground by distilling and presenting new and newly-reinterpreted evidence for the Hellenistic era, by opening the debate on how we should replace Rostovezeff's classic view of this period, and by offering a compelling new set of interpretive ideas to the debate on the ancient economy.

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
List of tables	x
List of contributors	xi
Preface	xii
Acknowledgments	xiv
List of abbreviations	xv
PART I Setting the scene	1	(62)
Hellenistic economies in the post-Finley era	11	(52)
John K. Davies
PART II Structures	63	(70)
Population - production - taxation - coinage: a model for the Seleukid economy	69	(34)
Makis Aperghis
The economy of Hellenistic Maresha: inferences based on the city plan and archaeological finds	103	(30)
Amos Kloner
PART III Geographies and place: regional economies	133	(68)
Regions and micro-regions: grain for Rhamnous	137	(20)
Graham Oliver
Economics in ancient Arabia: from Alexander to the Augustans	157	(18)
Kenneth Kitchen
Between colonies and emporia: Iberian hinterlands and the exchange of salt in eastern Spain	175	(26)
Benedict Lowe
PART IV Economic relationships	201	(70)
Grain, timber and money: Hellenistic kings, finance, buildings and foundations in Greek cities	205	(10)
Klaus Bringmann
The Rhodian associations and economic activity	215	(30)
Vincent Gabrielsen
Making the most of one's friends: Western Asia Minor in the early Hellenistic age	245	(26)
Zofia Archibald
PART V Movements and markers	271	(94)
Shipwrecks and Hellenistic trade	273	(40)
David Gibbins
The Antigonids: patterns of a royal economy	313	(52)
Katerina Panagopoulou
PART VI Destinations	365	(24)
Hellenistic economies: the case of Rome	367	(12)
Jeremy Paterson
Away from Rostovtzeff: a new SEHHW	379	(10)
Zofia Archibald
Index of Sources	389	(3)
General index	392