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TRADE IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
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TRADE IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical
antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide
economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdevel-
oped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of Athenian
and Roman power, helping to supply armies and cities. It furnished
the goods that ancient elites needed to maintain their dominance –
and yet, those same elites generally regarded trade and traders as a
threat to social order. Trade, like the patterns of consumption that
determined its development, was implicated in wider debates about
politics, morality and the state of society, just as the expansion of trade
in the modern world is presented both as the answer to global poverty
and as an instrument of exploitation and cultural imperialism. This
book explores the nature and importance of ancient trade, considering
its ecological and cultural significance as well as its economic aspects.
NEVILLE MORLEY is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the
University of Bristol. His previous publications include Metropolis
and Hinterland: the City of Rome and the Italian Economy (Cambridge
University Press, 1996 ) and Models and Concepts in Ancient History
( 2004 ).
KEY THEMES IN ANCIENT HISTORY
EDITORS
P. A. Cartledge
Clare College, Cambridge
P. D. A. Garnsey
Jesus College, Cambridge
Key Themes in Ancient History aims to provide readable, informed and original
studies of various basic topics, designed in the first instance for students and
teachers of Classics and Ancient History, but also for those engaged in related
disciplines. Each volume is devoted to a general theme in Greek, Roman, or where
appropriate, Graeco-Roman history, or to some salient aspect or aspects of it.
Besides indicating the state of current research in the relevant area, authors seek
to show how the theme is significant for our own as well as ancient culture and
society. By providing books for courses that are oriented around themes it is hoped
to encourage and stimulate promising new developments in teaching and research
in ancient history.
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