Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World

ISBN-13: 9780521268486 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 180 str.

North Carolina) C. M. Reed (Queens College

Opis

It has been claimed that ancient Athens differed from ancient Sparta and resembled Renaissance Italian republics and the early modern Dutch republic in being an aggressively commercial state with a business-minded elite. This work aims to refute that view. It argues that those trading with Athens were mainly poor and foreign--hence politically insignificant to Athens. Athens and other Greek states had no merchant marine of their own and took only limited measures, always short of war and lesser means of commercial imperialism, to attract maritime traders.

Recenzje

'… a scholarly study of the highest order … he has made it accessible to a wider range of scholars. It will remain the last word on the subject until the unlikely event of the appearance of significant new evidence.' The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of references to Greek terms; Maps; Introduction; 1. Coming to terms; 2. Classical modes and patterns of exchange; 3. The juridical place of maritime traders; 4. The level of wealth of maritime traders; 5. Official attitudes toward maritime traders; 6. Unofficial attitudes toward maritime traders; 7. Archaic modes of exchange and the personnel involved, c. 800–475 BC; 8. Conclusion: then and now; Appendices; Bibliography; Indexes.