The Greek<i>polis</i>and<i>koinon</i>

Mackil, Emily; Monson, Andrew; Scheidel, Walter

doi:10.1017/cbo9781316105436.015

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“…In light of political developments in the Hellenistic period (3rd and 2nd centuries BCE) we should perhaps expect it to be associated with increasing market integration affecting production strategies, as both Greek city-states and former regions of the Persian empire were incorporated into new successor kingdoms after the death of Alexander the Great. During this period, we can also observe the growth of federal states (koina) consisting of multiple city-states, which facilitated the pooling of physical and agricultural resources in broader areas of the Greek mainland (Mackil 2013(Mackil , 2015. We can therefore assume a higher degree of market integration compared to the preceding Archaic and Classical periods (c. 700-323 BCE), which were largely characterized by autonomous urban units populated by citizen farmers.…”

Section: Market Economies and Market Integrationmentioning

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Landscape Change and Trade in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data

Izdebski

Słoczyński

Bonnier

et al. 2020

The Economic Journal

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In this paper we use pollen data from six sites in southern Greece to study long-term vegetation change in this region from 1000 BCE to 600 CE. Based on insights from environmental history, we interpret our estimated trends in the regional presence of cereal, olive, and vine pollen as proxies for structural changes in agricultural production. We present evidence that there was a market economy in ancient Greece and a major trade expansion several centuries before the Roman conquest. Our results are consistent with auxiliary data on settlement dynamics, shipwrecks, and ancient oil and wine presses.

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Section: Market Economies and Market Integrationmentioning

confidence: 90%

Landscape Change and Trade in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data

Izdebski

Słoczyński

Bonnier

et al. 2020

The Economic Journal

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Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC

Lazar

2024

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This monograph offers a new analysis of fifth-century bc Athenian imperial power, a central topic in ancient Greek history. Challenging orthodox approaches, which have been mostly empirical, monolithic, and centred on Athens, the monograph argues that Athenian power was flexible and a matter of negotiation between the Athenians and their allies. The first three chapters focus on political, fiscal, and religious negotiations between the Athenians and their allies in Athenian contexts. The subsequent three chapters then offer studies of the empire in three different regions—the North Aegean, Rhodes, and the straits between the Aegean and the Black Sea—showing how the empire was formed of overlapping but differentiated regional manifestations. The monograph differs from previous studies in three key respects. Throughout, the monograph provides sophisticated economic analysis. It offers new perspectives on well-known Athenian epigraphic and literary sources, while also utilizing different categories of non-Athenian evidence, including varied forms of material culture. Finally, it makes use of critical historical comparison: with other imperial powers, with later Athenian power, and most of all with the operation of fifth-century Athenian power in different regions.

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Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC

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The Greekpolisandkoinon

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Landscape Change and Trade in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data

Landscape Change and Trade in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data

Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC

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