The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

List of maps viii List of figures ix List of tables xi Acknowledgments xii List of abbreviations xiii Introduction 1(14) Ian Morris Richard P. Saller Walter Scheidel PART I: DETERMINANTS OF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Ecology 15(23) Robert Sallares Demography 38(49) Walter Scheidel Household and gender 87(26) Richard P. Saller Law and economic institutions 113(31) Bruce W. Frier Dennis p. Kehoe Technology 144(31) Helmuth Schneider PART II: EARLY MEDITERRANEAN ECONOMIES AND THE NEAR EAST The Aegean Bronze Age 175(36) John Bennet Early Iron Age Greece 211(31) Ian Morris The Iron Age in the western Mediterranean 242(35) Michael Dietler Archaic Greece 277(25) Robin Osborne The Persian Near East 302(31) Peter R. Bedford PART III: CLASSICAL GREECE Classical Greece: Production 333(29) John K. Davies Classical Greece: Distribution 362(23) Astrid Moller Classical Greece: Consumption 385(24) Sitta Von Reden PART IV: THE HELLENISTIC STATES The Hellenistic Near East 409(25) Robartus j. Van Der Spek Hellenistic Egypt 434(26) Joseph G. Manning Hellenistic Greece and western Asia Minor 460(27) Gary Reger PART V: EARLY ITALY AND THE ROMAN REPUBLIC Early Rome and Italy 487(24) Jean-paul Morel The late Republic 511(32) William v. Harris PART VI: THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE The early Roman empire: Production 543(27) Dennis P. Kehoe The early Roman empire: Distribution 570(22) Neville Morley The early Roman empire: Consumption 592(27) Willem M. Jongman The early Roman empire: The state and the economy 619(32) Elio Lo Cascio PART VII: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE The western provinces 651(20) Philippe Leveau The eastern Mediterranean 671(27) Susan E. Alcock Roman Egypt 698(22) Dominic w. Rath Bone The frontier zones 720(23) David Cherry PART VIII: EPILOGUE The transition to late antiquity 743(26) Andrea Giardina Bibliography 769(149) Index 918