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Edward Harris is Professor of Ancient History; he has published extensively on Athenian political history and institutions, Greek law and the economy of Ancient Greece. He has published Aeschines and Athenian Politics (New York and Oxford 1995) and Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens (Cambridge and New
York 2006). He has co-edited with R. W. Wallace, Transitions to Empire, Essays in Greco-Roman History 360-146 B.C. (Norman OK 1996) and with Lene Rubinstein, The Law and the Courts in Ancient Greece (London 2004). He is also translating Demosthenes 20-26 for the series The Oratory of Classical Greece edited by ...
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n politics we hear a lot about family values. That is hardly surprising, because the family is fundamental to our sense of social well-being. Trends in divorce rates or in numbers of single-parent families are serious causes of concern and also sources of heated political rhetoric. The well-being of the family is so basic that it is a good not reducible to impact on gross national product, though our economistic rhetoric today sometimes tries to make it one. I was shocked by a report on National Public Radio in which the harm done by abusive husbands beating wives was measured by the dollars lost to the economy. I would have ...
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Since ancient times, Greek agriculture has been based on the trinity: cereals, olive oil, and grapes. However, because of natural constraints, production soon proved insufficient to satisfy demand. The soil's "stinginess" or "tightness" (Ancient Greek: stenokhra, ) explains Greek colonialism and the importance of the cleruchies of Asia Minor in controlling the supply of wheat. The olive tree and grapevine were complemented by the cultivation of herbs, vegetables, and oil-producing plants. Husbandry was badly developed due to a lack of available land. Sheep and ... Read More
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seems a book only a specialist on ancient agriculture could love. It thus runs the risk of being relegated to a dusty corner of the research library, unread. That would be a mistake. Foxhall has much for even the undergraduate general reader. As she puts it in the introductory chapter, "The cultivation of the olive offers the opportunity to explore the intricate relationships between social and cultural values, agricultural practices, the development and adaptation of technology, and the workings of the economies of Classical Greece--aspects of the ancient world which are sometimes studied in isolation from each other" ...
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social prominence did not allow special rights. For example, being born in a certain family generally brought no special privileges. Sometimes families controlled public religious functions, but this ordinarily did not give any extra power in the government. In Athens , the population was divided into four social classes based on wealth. People could change classes if they made more money. In Sparta , all male citizens were given the title of equal if they finished their education. However, Spartan kings, who served as the city-state's dual military and religious leaders, came from two families. Slaves had no power or ...
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which was the name of the people the Romans first came into contact with in the
region of Greece and they applied to all the residents of the peninsula. The official title of
Greece is the Hellenic Republic and the Greeks call themselves Hellas . In ancient
times the Greeks identified with their city-state rather than the region of those speaking the
same language. Greece is, as is Europe itself, a peninsula of peninsulas and islands. The terrain of Greece strongly encouraged the development of seamanship. Limited
land and abundant sheltered harbors put a great premium on learning to sail. Sailing
may have initially ...
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what he calls the "hypocrisy" of fiscal hawks calling for governments to take severe austerity measures even amid severe economic hardship. Not having a particularly distinguished background in macroeconomics, I will not judge the merits of his argument. But it reminded me deeply of a major local campaign issue these days -- the state of the city's "fund balance," the accumulated surpluses that have padded the city coffers in recent years. Writes Krugman: "[T]he policy elite -- central bankers, finance ministers, politicians who pose as defenders of fiscal virtue -- are acting like the priests of ...
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Economy of Ancient Greece. Lecture 2: Economics of Plato and Aristotle. Lecture 3: Critique of Utilitarianism. Course Outline ...
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--Athens. Greater Athens (pop. 3,566,060), municipality of Athens (772,072), Greater Thessaloniki (pop. 1,057,825), Thessaloniki (824,633), Piraeus (182,671), Greater Piraeus (880,529), Patras (170,452), Iraklion (132,117), Larissa (113,090). Terrain: Mountainous interior with coastal plains; 1,400-plus islands. Climate: Mediterranean; mild, wet winter and hot, dry summer. People Population (2009 est.): 11,260,000 million. (Immigrants make up approximately 10% of the population.) Growth rate (2009 estimated): -2.0%. Languages: Greek 99% (official), Turkish, others. Albanian is spoken by approximately 700,000 Albanian immigrants. ...
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When we discuss the economics of the ancient world, we must be careful not to
use the formal Economics which we employ in analyzing our own society, since
Economics is a function of the way a society runs, not the set of rules under
which a given society operates. We cannot remove ourselves from awareness of
the economic disciplines which our schools teach, and even if we formally try
to suspend Economics as a framework, we retain the image of the economic
framework in our language and our general pool of ideas. Yet some distancing of
ourselves from modern economic theory is necessary in starting an investigation
of a foreign ...
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However, because of natural constraints, production soon proved insufficient to satisfy demand. The soil's "stinginess" or "tightness" ( Ancient Greek : stenokhôría , ) explains Greek colonialism and the importance of the cleruchies of Asia Minor in controlling the supply of wheat . The olive tree and grapevine were complemented by the cultivation of herb s, vegetable s, and oil-producing plants. Husbandry was badly developed due to a lack of available land. Sheep and goats were the most common types of livestock. Woods were heavily exploited, first for domestic use and eventually to build trireme s. Bee
The majority of ancient Greece was a mountainous region not suitable for economies based on large-scale agriculture. (Note that Spartan society in Peloponnesus was an exception to this generalization and was based on a strong agricultural economy.) However, ancient Greece had abundant coastline in the Mediterranean that made it an ideal center for a trade-based economy. In later years, the economies of some city-states (such as Athens) relied more on trade than agriculture, which was the traditional economic base for ancient societies. First answer by ID1627306788 .
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