From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders

Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete

Edited by Angelos Chaniotis

Book cover: From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders

Extent: 405 pages

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Subjects: Classical Studies

Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beitrage und epigraphische Studien

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(December 1999)

ISBN: 9783515076210

6.69 x 9.49 inches

Price: $129.00

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Inhalt:
J. F. Cherry: Introductory Reflections on Economies and Scale in Prehistoric Crete
K. Sbonias: Social Development, Management of Production, and Symbolic Representation in Prepalatial Crete
D. C. Haggis: Staple Finance, Peak Sanctuaries, and Economic Complexity in Late Prepalatial Crete
A. Michailidou: Systems of Weight and Relations of Production in Late Bronze Age Crete
E. H. Cline: The Nature of the Economic Relations of Crete with Egypt and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age
K. Nowicki: Economy of Refugees: Life in the Cretan Mountains at the Turn of the Bronze and Iron Ages
S. Alcock: Three “R’s” of the Cretan Economy
A. Chaniotis: Milking the Mountains: Economic Activities on the Cretan Uplands in the Classical and Hellenistic Period
D. Viviers: Economy and Territorial Dynamics in Crete from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period
F. Guizzi: Private Economic Activities in Hellenistic Crete
M. I. Stefanakis: The Introduction of Coinage in Crete and the Beginning of Local Minting
A. Marangou: Wine in the Cretan Economy
S. Paton / R. M. Schneider: Imperial Splendour in the Province: Imported Marble on Roman Crete
M. W. Baldwin Bowsky: The Business of Being Roman: The Prosopographical Evidence
N. Litinas: Ostraca Chersonesi
W. V. Harris: Crete in the Hellenistic and Roman Economies: A Comment
Select Bibliography – Index

Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study, was Principal Investigator of the project ˈThe Social and Cultural Construction of Emotions: the Greek Paradigmˈ in Oxford (2009–13). His current research focuses on the role of memory, emotions, and theatrical behavior in Greek society, and on the history of the night in Greek Antiquity.

  • Edited by Angelos Chaniotis