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THE ANCIENT ECONOMY THE ANCIENT ECONOMY Edited by Walter Scheidel and Sitta von Reden Routledge· New York Published in the U.S.A. and Canada in 2002 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016 Transferred to Digital Printing 2010 By arrangement with Edinburgh University Press, published in the series Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World, edited by Michele George and Thomas Harrison. Selections and editorial materials Copyright © 2002 by Walter Scheidel and Sitta von Reden Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group Typeset in Sabon by Norman Tilley Graphics, Northampton All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher. Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from The Library of Congress ISBN 0 415941881 (hbk) ISBN 0 41594189 X (pbk) Publisher's Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent. Contents Acknowledgements Vll Note to the Reader Vlll 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. VB 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. Vlll 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) lX
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