Author: Julien Zurbach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborer
Languages : fr
Pages : 272
Book Description
La 4e de couverture indique :"Ce volume rassemble des études portant sur l’évolution des groupes de statut composant la main-d’œuvre agricole au Proche-Orient, en Grèce et en Méditerranée occidentale entre les VIIIe et Ve s. a.C. Il s’agit d’étudier les statuts personnels non comme des déterminants externes des comportements économiques, mais comme les signes et les instruments des transformations marquant, durant l’époque archaïque, l’organisation et le contrôle de la main-d’œuvre et l’accès à la terre et à ses ressources. La généralisation, sinon la création, de statuts de type hilotique ou pénestique et de l’esclavage marchandise, l’expansion de l’esclavage pour dettes et de la monnaie de métal pesé sont des événements essentiels dans la formation des cités grecques. Celles-ci ne sont pas isolées ; ce volume donne toute leur place aux sociétés du Proche-Orient et de Méditerranée qui connaissent des groupes et des évolutions comparables. Il apparaît ici que les changements caractéristiques du monde grec font écho à d’autres, révélant, selon des périodisations diverses, aussi bien des contacts étroits que des évolutions structurelles analogues et une histoire commune."
La main-d'oeuvre agricole en Méditerranée archaïque
Author: Julien Zurbach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborer
Languages : fr
Pages : 272
Book Description
La 4e de couverture indique :"Ce volume rassemble des études portant sur l’évolution des groupes de statut composant la main-d’œuvre agricole au Proche-Orient, en Grèce et en Méditerranée occidentale entre les VIIIe et Ve s. a.C. Il s’agit d’étudier les statuts personnels non comme des déterminants externes des comportements économiques, mais comme les signes et les instruments des transformations marquant, durant l’époque archaïque, l’organisation et le contrôle de la main-d’œuvre et l’accès à la terre et à ses ressources. La généralisation, sinon la création, de statuts de type hilotique ou pénestique et de l’esclavage marchandise, l’expansion de l’esclavage pour dettes et de la monnaie de métal pesé sont des événements essentiels dans la formation des cités grecques. Celles-ci ne sont pas isolées ; ce volume donne toute leur place aux sociétés du Proche-Orient et de Méditerranée qui connaissent des groupes et des évolutions comparables. Il apparaît ici que les changements caractéristiques du monde grec font écho à d’autres, révélant, selon des périodisations diverses, aussi bien des contacts étroits que des évolutions structurelles analogues et une histoire commune."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborer
Languages : fr
Pages : 272
Book Description
La 4e de couverture indique :"Ce volume rassemble des études portant sur l’évolution des groupes de statut composant la main-d’œuvre agricole au Proche-Orient, en Grèce et en Méditerranée occidentale entre les VIIIe et Ve s. a.C. Il s’agit d’étudier les statuts personnels non comme des déterminants externes des comportements économiques, mais comme les signes et les instruments des transformations marquant, durant l’époque archaïque, l’organisation et le contrôle de la main-d’œuvre et l’accès à la terre et à ses ressources. La généralisation, sinon la création, de statuts de type hilotique ou pénestique et de l’esclavage marchandise, l’expansion de l’esclavage pour dettes et de la monnaie de métal pesé sont des événements essentiels dans la formation des cités grecques. Celles-ci ne sont pas isolées ; ce volume donne toute leur place aux sociétés du Proche-Orient et de Méditerranée qui connaissent des groupes et des évolutions comparables. Il apparaît ici que les changements caractéristiques du monde grec font écho à d’autres, révélant, selon des périodisations diverses, aussi bien des contacts étroits que des évolutions structurelles analogues et une histoire commune."
Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c.800-146 BC
Author: David M. Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191082627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The orthodox view of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean holds that Greece and Rome were its only 'genuine slave societies', that is, societies in which slave labour contributed significantly to the economy and underpinned the wealth of elites. Other societies, traditionally labelled 'societies with slaves', are thought to have made little use of slave labour and therefore have been largely ignored in recent scholarship. This volume presents a radically different view of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean world, showing that elite exploitation of slave labour in Greece and the Near East shared some fundamental similarities, although the degree of elite dependence on slaves varied from region to region. Whilst slavery was indeed particularly highly developed in Greece and Rome, it was also economically entrenched in Carthage, and played a not insignificant role in the affairs of elites in Israel, Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia. The differing degrees to which Eastern Mediterranean elites exploited slave labour represents the outcome of a complex interplay between cultural, economic, political, geographical, and demographic factors. Proceeding on a regional basis, this book tracks the ways in which local conditions shaped a wide variety of Greek and Near Eastern slave systems, and how the legal architecture of slavery in individual regions was altered and adapted to accommodate these needs. The result is a nuanced exploration of the economic underpinnings of Greek elite culture that sets its reliance on slavery within a broader historical context and sheds light on the complex circumstances from which it emerged.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191082627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The orthodox view of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean holds that Greece and Rome were its only 'genuine slave societies', that is, societies in which slave labour contributed significantly to the economy and underpinned the wealth of elites. Other societies, traditionally labelled 'societies with slaves', are thought to have made little use of slave labour and therefore have been largely ignored in recent scholarship. This volume presents a radically different view of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean world, showing that elite exploitation of slave labour in Greece and the Near East shared some fundamental similarities, although the degree of elite dependence on slaves varied from region to region. Whilst slavery was indeed particularly highly developed in Greece and Rome, it was also economically entrenched in Carthage, and played a not insignificant role in the affairs of elites in Israel, Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia. The differing degrees to which Eastern Mediterranean elites exploited slave labour represents the outcome of a complex interplay between cultural, economic, political, geographical, and demographic factors. Proceeding on a regional basis, this book tracks the ways in which local conditions shaped a wide variety of Greek and Near Eastern slave systems, and how the legal architecture of slavery in individual regions was altered and adapted to accommodate these needs. The result is a nuanced exploration of the economic underpinnings of Greek elite culture that sets its reliance on slavery within a broader historical context and sheds light on the complex circumstances from which it emerged.
The Open Sea
Author: J. G. Manning
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400890225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that a search for an illusory single "ancient economy" has obscured the diversity of lived experience in the Mediterranean world, including both changes in political economies over time and differences in cultural conceptions of property and money. At the same time, he shows how the region's economies became increasingly interconnected during this period. The Open Sea argues that the keys to understanding the region's rapid social and economic change during the Iron Age are the variety of economic and political solutions its different cultures devised, the patterns of cross-cultural exchange, and the sharp environmental contrasts between Egypt, the Near East, and Greece and Rome. The book examines long-run drivers of change, such as climate, together with the most important economic institutions of the premodern Mediterranean--coinage, money, agriculture, and private property. It also explores the role of economic growth, states, and legal institutions in the region's various economies. A groundbreaking economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world, The Open Sea shows that the origins of the modern economy extend far beyond Greece and Rome.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400890225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that a search for an illusory single "ancient economy" has obscured the diversity of lived experience in the Mediterranean world, including both changes in political economies over time and differences in cultural conceptions of property and money. At the same time, he shows how the region's economies became increasingly interconnected during this period. The Open Sea argues that the keys to understanding the region's rapid social and economic change during the Iron Age are the variety of economic and political solutions its different cultures devised, the patterns of cross-cultural exchange, and the sharp environmental contrasts between Egypt, the Near East, and Greece and Rome. The book examines long-run drivers of change, such as climate, together with the most important economic institutions of the premodern Mediterranean--coinage, money, agriculture, and private property. It also explores the role of economic growth, states, and legal institutions in the region's various economies. A groundbreaking economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world, The Open Sea shows that the origins of the modern economy extend far beyond Greece and Rome.
Studies in Greek Lexicography
Author: Georgios K. Giannakis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110621614
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This volume presents nineteen studies by specialists in the field of Greek lexicography. A number of papers deal with historical aspects of Greek lexicography covering all phases of the language, i.e. ancient, medieval and modern, as well as the interrelations of Greek to neighboring languages. In addition, other papers address more formal issues, such as morphological, semantic and syntactic problems that are relevant to the study of Greek lexicography, as well as the study of individual words. Finally, in one study the problem of technical linguistic terminology is addressed along with the methodological, epistemological and other issues relating to the particular problem. The work is of special interest to scholars on the long standing problems of diachronic semantics, historical morphology and word formation, and to all those interested in etymology and the study of words of the Greek language.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110621614
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This volume presents nineteen studies by specialists in the field of Greek lexicography. A number of papers deal with historical aspects of Greek lexicography covering all phases of the language, i.e. ancient, medieval and modern, as well as the interrelations of Greek to neighboring languages. In addition, other papers address more formal issues, such as morphological, semantic and syntactic problems that are relevant to the study of Greek lexicography, as well as the study of individual words. Finally, in one study the problem of technical linguistic terminology is addressed along with the methodological, epistemological and other issues relating to the particular problem. The work is of special interest to scholars on the long standing problems of diachronic semantics, historical morphology and word formation, and to all those interested in etymology and the study of words of the Greek language.
The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy
Author: Sitta von Reden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108278507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
This is the most comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy available in English. A team of specialists provides in non-technical language cutting edge accounts of a wide range of key themes in economic history, explaining how ancient Greek economies functioned and changed, and why they were stable and successful over long periods of time. Through its wide geographical perspective, reaching from the Aegean and the Black Sea to the Near East and Egypt under Greek rule, it reflects on how economic behaviour and institutions were formed and transformed under different political, ecological and social circumstances, and how they interacted and communicated over large distances. With chapters on climate and the environment, market development, inequality and growth, it encourages comparison with other periods of time and cultures, thus being of interest not just to ancient historians but also to readers concerned with economic cultures and global economic issues.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108278507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
This is the most comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy available in English. A team of specialists provides in non-technical language cutting edge accounts of a wide range of key themes in economic history, explaining how ancient Greek economies functioned and changed, and why they were stable and successful over long periods of time. Through its wide geographical perspective, reaching from the Aegean and the Black Sea to the Near East and Egypt under Greek rule, it reflects on how economic behaviour and institutions were formed and transformed under different political, ecological and social circumstances, and how they interacted and communicated over large distances. With chapters on climate and the environment, market development, inequality and growth, it encourages comparison with other periods of time and cultures, thus being of interest not just to ancient historians but also to readers concerned with economic cultures and global economic issues.
Roman Frugality
Author: Ingo Gildenhard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840167
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Explores frugal thought and practice in Roman history, from the archaic period to the early empire and beyond.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840167
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Explores frugal thought and practice in Roman history, from the archaic period to the early empire and beyond.
Beyond Thalassocracies
Author: Evi Gorogianni
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785702041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Beyond Thalassocracies aims to evaluate and rethink the manner in which archaeologists approach, understand, and analyze the various processes associated with culture change connected to interregional contact, using as a test case the world of the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600–1100 BC). The 14 chapters compare and contrast various aspects of the phenomena of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation, both of which share the basic underlying defining feature of material culture change in communities around the Aegean. This change was driven by trends manifesting themselves in the dominant palatial communities of each period of the Bronze Age. Over the past decade, our understanding of how these processes developed and functioned has changed considerably. Whereas current discussions on Minoanisation have already been informed by more recent theoretical trends, especially in material culture studies and post‐colonial theory, the process of Mycenaeanisation is still very much conceptualized along traditional lines of explanation. Since these phenomena occurred in chronological sequence, it makes sense that any reappraisal of their nature and significance should target those regions of the Aegean basin that were affected by both processes, highlighting their similarities and differences. Thus, in the present volume we focus on the southern and eastern Aegean, in particular the Cyclades, Dodecanese, and the north-eastern Aegean islands.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785702041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Beyond Thalassocracies aims to evaluate and rethink the manner in which archaeologists approach, understand, and analyze the various processes associated with culture change connected to interregional contact, using as a test case the world of the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600–1100 BC). The 14 chapters compare and contrast various aspects of the phenomena of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation, both of which share the basic underlying defining feature of material culture change in communities around the Aegean. This change was driven by trends manifesting themselves in the dominant palatial communities of each period of the Bronze Age. Over the past decade, our understanding of how these processes developed and functioned has changed considerably. Whereas current discussions on Minoanisation have already been informed by more recent theoretical trends, especially in material culture studies and post‐colonial theory, the process of Mycenaeanisation is still very much conceptualized along traditional lines of explanation. Since these phenomena occurred in chronological sequence, it makes sense that any reappraisal of their nature and significance should target those regions of the Aegean basin that were affected by both processes, highlighting their similarities and differences. Thus, in the present volume we focus on the southern and eastern Aegean, in particular the Cyclades, Dodecanese, and the north-eastern Aegean islands.
Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente, Supplemento 8. Monetary and social aspects of Hellenistic Crete
Author: Renata Cantilena
Publisher: All’Insegna del Giglio
ISBN: 9609559247
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Nel giugno del 2018 presso la Scuola Archeologica Italiana ad Atene si è svolto il convegno internazionale di studi Monetary and Social Aspects of Hellenistic Crete, al quale hanno partecipato numerosi studiosim di diversi ambiti disciplinari impegnati in ricerche su Creta in epoca ellenistica 1. L’idea di organizzare l’incontro scaturiva dalla volontà di avviare una discussione tra numismatici, archeologi, storici, epigrafisti su aspetti della società cretese tra la fine del IV e il I a.C., al fine di indagare l’incidenza che la moneta ha avuto nello sviluppo delle comunità locali, vuoi se emessa in risposta a esigenze di spesa per assetti urbanistici e difensivi, vuoi se connessa a pratiche di mercenariato o per mobilitazioni di carattere militare, vuoi se funzionale a relazioni commerciali o a scelte di politiche interne e/o esterne […] Renata Cantilena
Publisher: All’Insegna del Giglio
ISBN: 9609559247
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Nel giugno del 2018 presso la Scuola Archeologica Italiana ad Atene si è svolto il convegno internazionale di studi Monetary and Social Aspects of Hellenistic Crete, al quale hanno partecipato numerosi studiosim di diversi ambiti disciplinari impegnati in ricerche su Creta in epoca ellenistica 1. L’idea di organizzare l’incontro scaturiva dalla volontà di avviare una discussione tra numismatici, archeologi, storici, epigrafisti su aspetti della società cretese tra la fine del IV e il I a.C., al fine di indagare l’incidenza che la moneta ha avuto nello sviluppo delle comunità locali, vuoi se emessa in risposta a esigenze di spesa per assetti urbanistici e difensivi, vuoi se connessa a pratiche di mercenariato o per mobilitazioni di carattere militare, vuoi se funzionale a relazioni commerciali o a scelte di politiche interne e/o esterne […] Renata Cantilena
Polis
Author: John Ma
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691155380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
"The polis, the dominant political form around which ancient Greeks structured their lives and activities, is perhaps their most fundamental creation and enduring legacy. It was a highly successful form of social organization in which Greek culture thrived, including architecture, literature, and philosophy. In this book, ancient historian John Ma offers a new history of the polis from its origins in the Early Iron Age through its eclipse in Late Antiquity. He aims to answer a few big questions about it-Why did it emerge? What needs did it fulfill? How did it work? In addition, it is often assumed that the polis, along with the concomitant values of democracy and freedom, came to an end with the Classical period. Taking a contrary view, Ma explores how it endured under imperial control (the Persian Achaimenids, the Hellenistic kings, the Roman Empire), as well as why and how it eventually ended. In addressing these questions, Ma examines not only the most well-known ancient city-states like Sparta and Athens but also many lesser-known ones. He shows how complex the relations of power, access, and membership between the city, the territory, and the members of the polis were. Ma also examines the polis's significance as a social form and looks to the people who constitute the polis, from free adult men-stakeholders in institutional power, slaveowners, or heads of households-and elites to women, foreigners, and enslaved peoples, however disempowered. He draws on recent work on gender and slavery to evaluate the place of domination and violence in the polis. In doing so, Ma shows how the composition of the citizen body is both a political and social issue. The powerful combination of central political ideas and conflict around the issues of autonomy and social power led, Ma argues, to a "great convergence" of polis forms, producing a relatively uniform, stable organism, centred on communitarian, democratic forms and bargains between the community and its elites. This convergence led to the diffusion and harmonization of polis forms, both within and beyond the Aegean, and which allowed them to endure for almost a thousand years with an even longer legacy"--
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691155380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
"The polis, the dominant political form around which ancient Greeks structured their lives and activities, is perhaps their most fundamental creation and enduring legacy. It was a highly successful form of social organization in which Greek culture thrived, including architecture, literature, and philosophy. In this book, ancient historian John Ma offers a new history of the polis from its origins in the Early Iron Age through its eclipse in Late Antiquity. He aims to answer a few big questions about it-Why did it emerge? What needs did it fulfill? How did it work? In addition, it is often assumed that the polis, along with the concomitant values of democracy and freedom, came to an end with the Classical period. Taking a contrary view, Ma explores how it endured under imperial control (the Persian Achaimenids, the Hellenistic kings, the Roman Empire), as well as why and how it eventually ended. In addressing these questions, Ma examines not only the most well-known ancient city-states like Sparta and Athens but also many lesser-known ones. He shows how complex the relations of power, access, and membership between the city, the territory, and the members of the polis were. Ma also examines the polis's significance as a social form and looks to the people who constitute the polis, from free adult men-stakeholders in institutional power, slaveowners, or heads of households-and elites to women, foreigners, and enslaved peoples, however disempowered. He draws on recent work on gender and slavery to evaluate the place of domination and violence in the polis. In doing so, Ma shows how the composition of the citizen body is both a political and social issue. The powerful combination of central political ideas and conflict around the issues of autonomy and social power led, Ma argues, to a "great convergence" of polis forms, producing a relatively uniform, stable organism, centred on communitarian, democratic forms and bargains between the community and its elites. This convergence led to the diffusion and harmonization of polis forms, both within and beyond the Aegean, and which allowed them to endure for almost a thousand years with an even longer legacy"--
From Homer to Solon
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004513639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Under the headings "Approaching Early-Archaic Greece," "Citizens and Citizen-States", and "Leaders and Reformers" the volume offers a wide range of studies that circle around the central problem of continuity and change in Archaic Greece.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004513639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Under the headings "Approaching Early-Archaic Greece," "Citizens and Citizen-States", and "Leaders and Reformers" the volume offers a wide range of studies that circle around the central problem of continuity and change in Archaic Greece.