Trade, Traders and the Ancient City.

By: Parkins, HelenContributor(s): Smith, ChristopherMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Florence : Routledge, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203979037Subject(s): Assyria -- Commerce -- History -- Congresses | Cities and towns, Ancient -- History -- Congresses | Commerce -- History -- To 500 -- Congresses | Economic history -- To 500 -- Congresses | Greece -- Commerce -- History -- Congresses | Rome -- Commerce -- History -- Congresses | Trade routes -- History -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Trade, Traders and the Ancient CityDDC classification: 382.093 LOC classification: HF357 -- .T7 1998ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Halftitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Time for change? Shaping the future of the ancient economy -- 2 The Old Assyrian merchants -- 3 Traders and artisans in archaic central Italy -- 4 Trade on the Black Sea in the archaic and classical periods: some observations -- 5 Ceramics and positivism revisited: Greek transport amphoras and history -- 6 The grain trade of Athens in the fourth century BC -- 7 Land transport in Roman Italy: costs, practice and the economy -- 8 Trade and traders in the Roman world: scale, structure, and organisation -- 9 Trade and the city in Roman Egypt -- 10 Trading gods in northern Italy -- 11 Ancient economies: models and muddles -- Index.
Summary: Trade, exchange and commerce touched the lives of everyone in antiquity, especially those who lived in urban areas. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City addresses the nature of exchange and commerce and the effects it had in cities throughout the ancient world, from the Bronze Age Near East to late Roman northern Italy. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City employs the most recent archaeological, papyrological, epigraphic and literary evidence to present an innovative and timely analysis of the importance and influence of trade in the ancient world.
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Cover -- Halftitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Time for change? Shaping the future of the ancient economy -- 2 The Old Assyrian merchants -- 3 Traders and artisans in archaic central Italy -- 4 Trade on the Black Sea in the archaic and classical periods: some observations -- 5 Ceramics and positivism revisited: Greek transport amphoras and history -- 6 The grain trade of Athens in the fourth century BC -- 7 Land transport in Roman Italy: costs, practice and the economy -- 8 Trade and traders in the Roman world: scale, structure, and organisation -- 9 Trade and the city in Roman Egypt -- 10 Trading gods in northern Italy -- 11 Ancient economies: models and muddles -- Index.

Trade, exchange and commerce touched the lives of everyone in antiquity, especially those who lived in urban areas. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City addresses the nature of exchange and commerce and the effects it had in cities throughout the ancient world, from the Bronze Age Near East to late Roman northern Italy. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City employs the most recent archaeological, papyrological, epigraphic and literary evidence to present an innovative and timely analysis of the importance and influence of trade in the ancient world.

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