The Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC

The Economies of Hellenistic Societies is a valuable contribution to Hellenistic studies.... the individual papers are of outstanding quality and will be of interest to everyone interested in Hellenistic history.

• 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