Title Oil, wine, and the cultural economy of ancient Greece : from the Bronze age to the Archaic era / Catherine E. Pratt, University of Western Ontario

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 409 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- One Introduction -- Oil, Wine, and Cultural History in Pre-Classical Greece -- Oil-Wine, Olives-Vines -- Cultural Commodities: Dependency, Value, and the Longue Durée -- Considering Climate Change: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Adaptation -- The Structure of the Book -- Two Developing a Relationship of Dependency: Oil and Wine in the Minoan Palatial Era -- Production of Oil and Wine -- Modes of Exchange: Commensal, Gift, and Commercial -- Commensal Exchange: Increasing Scale and Formalization of Feasts -- Gift Exchange: Ritual and Funerary Gifts -- Commercial Exchange: Regional and Long Distance -- Chapter Conclusions -- Three Controlling the Relationship: Oil and Wine in the Mycenaean Palatial Era -- Production of Oil and Wine -- Commensal Exchange: State-Sponsored Feasting -- Oil and Wine in Gift Exchange -- Oil and Wine in Commercial Exchange -- Chapter Conclusions -- Four Maintaining the Relationship: Oil and Wine in Postpalatial Greece -- Production of Oil and Wine -- Modes of Exchange: Commensal, Gift, and Commercial -- Commensal Exchange: From Regional to Local -- Gift Exchange: Funerary and Ritual Offerings -- Commercial Exchange: Simplification and Local Resourcefulness -- Chapter Conclusions -- Five Rebuilding the Relationship: Oil and Wine in Early Iron Age Greece -- Production of Oil and Wine -- Modes of Exchange in the Early Iron Age -- Commensal Exchange: Local, Regional, and Ritual -- Gift Exchange: Funerary Offerings -- Commercial Exchange: Specialized Amphoras and Interregional Networks -- Chapter Conclusions -- Six Expanding the Relationship: Oil and Wine in the Early Archaic Period -- Production of Oil and Wine -- Exchanging Oil and Wine in the Archaic Period Commensal Exchange: Communal, Private, AND Ritual -- Gift Exchange: Deities, Deceased, and the Living -- Commercial Exchange: Regional Amphoras and Mediterranean Networks -- Chapter Conclusions -- Seven Conclusion: Cultural Commodities and the Future of Oil and Wine -- Dynamic Stability: Shared Values and the Construction of Eliteness -- Olive Oil and Wine as Cultural Commodities -- Learning from the Past: Climate Change and the Future of Greek Oil and Wine -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "Chapter 1 Introduction "There are two liquids most pleasing to human bodies: inside-wine, outside-oil."--Pliny (23-79 CE), Natural History XIV, 29.150 "It is evident that the country now called Hellas had in ancient times no settled population ... without commerce, without freedom of communication either by land or sea, cultivating no more of their territory than the exigencies of life required, destitute of capital, never planting their land ..." -Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE), History of the Peloponnesian War, 1.2.1-2 Oil, Wine, and Cultural History in Pre-Classical Greece This book aims to explore the centrality of olive oil and wine in various realms of ancient Greek life and how this interdependence came to exist and persist. Indeed, this book argues that oil and wine can be regarded not just as economic commodities, but cultural commodities that actively shaped the paths of ancient Greek history. Cultural commodities can be defined as things that have become deeply entangled with humans through increasing ties of dependency that are reinforced by a high value constructed within multiple contexts of exchange. On the one hand, expansions and contractions of dependencies between people and oil/wine can be seen by tracing shifting emphases in exchange modes-such as commensal, gift, and commercial exchange-within their social and environmental contexts over the long-term"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 31, 2021) Subject Agriculture, Ancient -- Greece Olive oil -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 Wine and wine making -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 Agriculture, Ancient Civilization Economic history Olive oil Wine and wine making SUBJECT Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041 Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057059 Subject Greece Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020047377 ISBN 9781108891165 1108891160 9781108880787 1108880789

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