Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- List of references to Greek terms
- Maps
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Coming to terms
- Chapter 2 Classical modes and patterns of exchange
- Chapter 3 The juridical place of maritime traders
- Chapter 4 The level of wealth of maritime traders
- Chapter 5 Official attitudes towards maritime traders
- Chapter 6 Unofficial attitudes toward maritime traders
- Chapter 7 Archaic modes of exchange and the personnel involved c. 800–475 b.c.
- Chapter 8 Conclusion: then and now
- Appendix 1 Emporoi and nauklēroi: their attested states of origin
- Appendix 2 Cohesion among maritime traders
- Appendix 3 The dikai emporikai
- Appendix 4 Catalogue of emporoi and nauklēroi
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- General index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- List of references to Greek terms
- Maps
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Coming to terms
- Chapter 2 Classical modes and patterns of exchange
- Chapter 3 The juridical place of maritime traders
- Chapter 4 The level of wealth of maritime traders
- Chapter 5 Official attitudes towards maritime traders
- Chapter 6 Unofficial attitudes toward maritime traders
- Chapter 7 Archaic modes of exchange and the personnel involved c. 800–475 b.c.
- Chapter 8 Conclusion: then and now
- Appendix 1 Emporoi and nauklēroi: their attested states of origin
- Appendix 2 Cohesion among maritime traders
- Appendix 3 The dikai emporikai
- Appendix 4 Catalogue of emporoi and nauklēroi
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- General index
Summary
The law respecting sufficiency of evidence ought to be the same for ancient times as for modern … [yet] our stock of information respecting the ancient world still remains lamentably inadequate to the demands of an enlightened curiosity. We possess only what has drifted ashore from the wreck of a stranded vessel… The question of credibility is perpetually obtruding itself … [with the result that] expressions of qualified and hesitating affirmation are repeated until the reader is sickened.
Grote (1888: v–vi)For the past decade I have worked at an American private liberal arts college whose small size obliges faculty to teach outside their specialties. Until recently, due partly to the press of administrative duties, I taught my specialty (ancient Greek history) only once every two years, yet as the resident economic historian I teach the “History of Capitalism” to M.B.A. candidates every semester, either in the evenings or on the weekends. Then in 1993, when no replacement could be found immediately for a departed social theory instructor, I volunteered to fill in and have been teaching it annually ever since.
One possible effect of teaching such different subjects outside one's own specialty is that in each one manages to learn just enough to be dangerous, yet in fact their effect on my view of the present subject has been chastening in two important respects.
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- Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World , pp. 1 - 5Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003