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Author Foxhall, Lin.

Title Olive cultivation in ancient Greece : seeking the ancient economy / Lin Foxhall
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages) : illustrations
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Wealthy Households: Theory, Sources, Methodology; 3. The Agricultural Holdings of Large-Scale Households; 4. The Domestic Consumption of Olive Oil; 5. Cultivating the Olive; 6. Processing Olives; 7. Arboriculture and Ornamental Gardens in Ancient Greece; 8. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index Locurum; General Index
Summary An examination of olive cultivation as a way of understanding ancient Greek agriculture in its landscape, economic, social, and political settings. Lin Foxhall assembles evidence from written sources, archaeology, and visual images. Her investigation opens up new ways of thinking about the economies of the archaic and classical Greek world. - ;Lin Foxhall explores the cultivation of the olive as an extended case study for understanding ancient Greek agriculture in its landscape, economic, social, and political settings. Evidence from written sources, archaeology, and visual images is assembled
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Agriculture, Ancient -- Greece
Olive -- Greece -- History
Olive oil -- Greece -- History
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
GARDENING -- Fruit.
Agriculture, Ancient
Olive
Olive oil
Olivenanbau
Landwirtschaft
Landbouw.
Olijven.
Olijfolie.
Greece
Griechenland Altertum
Griekenland.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0191518417
9780191518416
1281147095
9781281147097
9786611147099
6611147098