The Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC

Abstract

1. Introduction 2. Jewish subjects and Seleukid kings: a case study of economic interaction 3. Mobility and innovation in Hellenistic economies: the causes and consequences of human traffic 4. Grain from Cyrene 5. Some aspects of large estate management in the Greek world during Classical and Hellenistic times 6. The impact of war on the economy of Hellenistic poleis: Demand creation, short-term influences, long-term impacts 7. Divine financiers: cults as consumers and generators of value 8. Observations on the economy in kind in Ptolemaic Egypt 9. The well-balanced polis: Ephesos 10. Labour in the Hellenistic economy: slavery as a test case 11. Profitable partnerships: Kings, cities, and trade 12. The economy of Koile Syria after the Seleukid conquest: an archaeological contribution 13. Wine and amphorae: production and transport 14. Networks, hierarchies and markets in the Ptolemaic economy 15. Autopsy of a crisis: Wealth, Protogenes and the city of Olbia c.200 BC 16. Mobility, society and economy in the Hellenistic period 17. Inter-regional economies in the Aegean basin 18. Animal husbandry in Ptolemaic Egypt 19. The 'silverization' of the economy of the Achaemenid and Seleukid empires and early modern China 20. Demand creation, comsumption and power in Ptolemaic Egypt 21. Afterword