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1 online resource (226 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page ; Original Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Measures, weights and coins; List of abbreviations; Part I Ideology and practice of ancient trade; 1 Greek and Roman Values; I Greek values; 1 Thucydides I.2.1-2; 2 Homer, Odyssey XIV. 288-9; 3 Homer, Odyssey XV. 415-17; 4 Hesiod, Works and Days 618-94; 5 Plato, Laws IV. 704b5-705b8; 6 Plato, Laws XII. 952d-953e; 7 Xenophon, Oeconomicus V.17; 8 Aristotle, Economics II. 1.1-6; 9 Aristotle, Politics I.3.1-18; 10 Xenophon, Spartan Constitution VII. 1-5 |
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11 Herodotus II. 166-712 Athenaeus XII. 526d-e; II Roman values; 13 Livy XXI. 63.3-4; 14 Cicero, II Against Verres V.45-6; 15 Paulus, Opinions V.28a3; 16 Cicero, On Duties I.150-2; 17 Cicero, II Against Verres V.167; 18 Cicero, II Against Verres IV. 8; 19 Cicero, Letters to his Friends XVI. 9.4; 20 Tacitus, Annals IV. 13.2; 21 Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists II. 21; 22 Libanius, Progymnasmata, Comparationes (edition Foerster, vol. VIII pp. 349-51); 23 Ecclesiasticus 26:29-27:2; 24 Ambrosius, De Elia 70-1; 2 Forms of Exchange in Homeric Society; 25 Homer, Odyssey I.306-18 |
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26 Homer, Odyssey IV. 593-60827 Homer, Iliad VI. 224-36; 28 Homer, Odyssey IX. 39-47; 29 Homer, Iliad XI. 670-89; 30 Hymn to Apollo 452-5; 31 Homer, Odyssey VIII. 159-64; 32 Homer, Odyssey VIII. 555-63; 3 Forms of Exchange in Archaic Greece; 33 Thucydides I.5; 34 Meiggs and Lewis 44B lines 2-14; 35 Meiggs and Lewis 16; 36 Herodotus III. 39; 37 Herodotus I.69-70; 38 Herodotus IV. 196; 39 Strabo III. 4.8; 40 Herodotus II. 178-9; 41 Solon, Fragments XII. 41-6; 42 Plutarch, Solon II. 3-III. 1; 43 Herodotus IV. 152; 44 Strabo XVII. 1.33; 45 B. Bravo, Dialogues d''histoire ancienne, 1 (1974), 123 |
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4 Athens and the Athenian EmpireI Empire and trade; 46 Pseudo-Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians II. 11-13; 47 Tod II. 162; 48 Meiggs and Lewis 45; 49 Thucydides I.67; 50 Isocrates, Panegyricus 42; 51 Andocides, On the Mysteries 133; 52 Aristotle, Athenian Constitution 51; II Meties, aliens and trade in Athens; 53 Aristophanes of Byzantium, Fragments 38; 54 Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 211; 55 IG II2 207 lines 0-10; 56 Pseudo-Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians I.10-12; 57 Xenophon, Ways and Means II. 1-III. 5; 58 Isocrates, On the Peace VI. 21; 59 SIG3 304; 60 Tod II. 189 |
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61 Demosthenes, Against Euboulides 30-1 33-4; 35; 62 Demosthenes, Against Aristogeiton I.50-2; 63 Lysias, Against Diogeiton 4-7; 64 Digest XLVII. 22.4; III Maritime loans; 65 Demosthenes, Against Aphobus I.9-11; 66 Demosthenes, Against Apaturius 4-5; 67 Theophrastus, Characters XXVIII. 1-2; 68 Demosthenes, Against Lacritus 10-13; 69 Demosthenes, Against Zenothemis 4-6; 70 Demosthenes, Against Phormio 6-9; 5 The Greek World outside Athens; 71 Polybius IV. 38.1-10; 72 Heraclides Creticus I.23.4-24; 73 Strabo XIV. 2.5; 74 Polybius XXX. 31.10-12; 75 SEG XI 1026; 76 Strabo X.5.4; 77 SIG3 493 |
| Summary |
This book, first published in 1992, presents an introduction to the nature of trade and transport in antiquity through a selection of translated literary, papyrological, epigraphical and legal sources. These texts illustrate a range of aspects of ancient trade and transport: from the role of the authorities, to the status of traders, to the capacity and speed of ancient ships. It is clear that the actual means of transportation were crucial; the book illustrates the limitations of ancient transport technology and the consequences for the development of commerce. It focuses first on different a |
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78 Dio Chrysostomus VIII. 9 |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Meijer, Fik
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| ISBN |
9781317575993 |
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1317575997 |
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