Trade, traders and the ancient city / / edited by Helen Parkins and Christopher Smith

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 382/.093
• Soggetto topico: Commerce - History - To 500; Trade routes - History; Cities and towns, Ancient - History; Economic history - To 500
• Soggetto geografico: Assyria Commerce History Congresses; Rome Commerce History Congresses; Greece Commerce History Congresses
• Altri autori: ParkinsHelen <1966-> SmithChristopher John <1965->
• Note generali: A collection of papers from a 1995 conference with the same working title.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Time for change?; 2 The Old Assyrian merchants; 3 Traders and artisans in archaic central Italy; 4 Trade on the Black Sea in the archaic and classical periods; 5 Ceramics and positivism revisited; 6 The grain trade of Athens in the fourth century BC; 7 Land transport in Roman Italy; 8 Trade and traders in the Roman world; 9 Trade and the city in Roman Egypt; 10 Trading gods in northern Italy; 11 Ancient economies: models and muddles; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Trade, exchange and commerce touched the lives of everyone in antiquity, especially those who lived in urban areas. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City addresses the nature of exchange and commerce and the effects it had in cities throughout the ancient world, from the Bronze Age Near East to late Roman northern Italy.Trade, Traders and the Ancient City employs the most recent archaeological, papyrological, epigraphic and literary evidence to present an innovative and timely analysis of the importance and influence of trade in the ancient world.
• Titolo autorizzato: Trade, traders, and the ancient city
• ISBN: 1-134-70941-2; 1-134-70942-0; 1-280-14334-7; 0-203-97903-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816927703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II