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Contents
Concepts and General Problems | 3 |
The Homeric World | 36 |
The Archaic Period EighthSixth Centuries | 49 |
The Archaic States and Sparta | 78 |
Classical Athens | 94 |
The Greek Cities and Economic Problems | 112 |
The Time of Crises | 131 |
Concepts and General Problems | 159 |
Rural habits of the Athenians after the decision of Pericles to evacuate Attica Thucydides | 265 |
A peasants republic? Dionysius of Halicarnassus | 266 |
Mythical aspects of the status of metics in Athens Aeschylus Euripides | 267 |
A call to the metics Thucydides | 269 |
The metic liberators 400401 inscription | 271 |
Honours granted by Athens to Strato king of Sidon c 367? inscription | 273 |
Permission given to merchants from Kition Cyprus to found a sanctuary to Aphrodite 333 inscription | 274 |
citizens slaves and metics at work 408407 inscription | 276 |
Hesiod and the need for work | 176 |
The distinction between the artisan and his work Plutarch | 177 |
Can one sell ribbons be an Athenian woman and remain respectable? Demosthenes | 178 |
Work and slavery Aristophanes | 180 |
the different types of social authority Aristotle | 181 |
women Herodotus Pherecrates | 184 |
Myth on the origins of male democracy at Athens Varro | 186 |
the old versus the young? The debate on the Sicilian expedition 415 Thucydides | 187 |
The popular classes as seen by an oligarch Ps Xenophon | 189 |
Aristotles terminology | 190 |
Redistribution of the wealth of the city among the citizens Herodotus | 193 |
The Homeric World | 195 |
Homeric values Iliad | 196 |
The store room of the oikos Odyssey | 197 |
Eumaeus describes the flocks of Odysseus Odyssey | 198 |
gift and countergift Odyssey | 199 |
Division of tasks and maritime specialization among the Phaeacians Odyssey | 200 |
Homeric demioergoi Odyssey | 201 |
the Cyclopes Odyssey | 202 |
Good neighbours and selfsufficiency Hesiod | 203 |
The Archaic Period EighthSixth Centuries | 205 |
Peasants in the city Theognis | 206 |
The hoplites republic Aristotle | 207 |
mercenaries in Egypt inscription | 209 |
the liberation of the land and of the men 594 | 210 |
Solon and the artisans Plutarch | 212 |
Solons alleged reform of weights measures and coins Aristotle Androtion | 214 |
The Archaic States and Sparta | 245 |
Classical Athens | 263 |
Metics and slaves at Athens Ps Xenophon | 282 |
The slaves of the metic Kephisodoros inscription | 283 |
Material losses and flight of slaves after the occupation of Deceleia summer 413 Thucydides | 284 |
The revenue from one slave 415 Andocides | 286 |
The navy is a profession Thucydides | 288 |
The Greek Cities and Economic Problems | 289 |
Text of a law forbidding loans on ships commissioned to transport corn elsewhere than to Athens c 350 | 291 |
The Peiraieus an invention of Athens Isocrates | 292 |
For the importers of corn against the retail dealers Lysias | 293 |
Athens and strategic materials Ps Xenophon | 295 |
The financial resources of Athens in 431 Thucydides | 297 |
Individual and collective contributions to the Spartan war effort 426 or 396395 inscription | 299 |
Athenian magistrates entrusted with the supervision of economic activity Aristotle | 300 |
An Athenian policy of largescale public works? Plutarch | 301 |
Fiscal and monetary stratagems Ps Aristotle | 303 |
Indirect taxes at Cyzicus sixth century inscription | 307 |
The empire of Sinope around 400 Xenophon | 325 |
The Time of Crises | 334 |
After the fall of Spartan power and the loss | 340 |
Equality and the origin of revolutions Aristotle | 346 |
Internal struggles in Sicily from c 466 Diodorus | 352 |
Timoleon resettles Sicily c 338337 Plutarch | 355 |
foreigners and traders in the city | 362 |
Horoi | 368 |
against the separation of city and countryside | 375 |
Plato on war between Greeks | 381 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece: An Introduction |
| Authors | M. M. Austin, Pierre Vidal-Naquet |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1980 |
| ISBN | 0520042670, 9780520042674 |
| Length | 397 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economic History History / Ancient / General |
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