Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 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
Summary
This comprehensive and well-documented book provides a critically up-to-date analysis of trade in the ancient world, which takes into account a diverse range of evidence
