Economic and Social History of Ancient GreeceThis book is an English version of the book originally published in French under the title of Economies et societes en Grece ancienne. The opportunity has been taken to correct some errors, update bibliographical references, add a few passage to the selection of ancient sources, and improve the material presentation in several respects. But otherwise this remains substantially the same book as the original French version.The book is aimed in the first place at an undergraduate audience, though it is hoped that it will also be of interest to a wiser, non-specialist readership interested in the history and civilization of Ancient Greece. It attempts to meet a need well-known to all those who have to teach Greek history in universities. Students, long dissatisfied with a purely political approach to Greek history, ask for more 'economic and social' history. One then has to answer--tand this book is a very modest attempt at an answer--that neither the 'economic' nor the 'social' category had in the Greek city the same independent status they now enjoy. The book takes its starting-point in this ambiguity; it accepts the challenge, but rejects the formulation of the question. Anyone who has been asked to explain once and for all the role played by slaves in social conflicts in the Greek world will understand what we mean. — Publisher description. |
Contents
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 |
Social conflicts and the impoverishment of the masses | 138 |
Internal aspects of the decline of the city in Athens | 144 |
Solons alleged reform of weights measures and coins Aristotle Androtion | 214 |
The Archaic States and Sparta | 245 |
Classical Athens | 263 |
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 |
The abandonment of the ideal of the peasantcitizen | 151 |
Concepts and General Problems | 159 |
Prestige of warfare and contempt for the trades among | 168 |
Convention on the sharing of booty and on commerce | 174 |
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 |
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 |
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 obligations of a wealthy Athenian | 316 |
Athenian settlement at Brea in Thrace c 445? | 323 |
Decree from Olbia on the import of foreign coins | 330 |
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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