Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World
by
C. M. Reed
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521268486
ISBN-13
9780521268486
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 2003
Print length
180 Pages
Weight
426 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.70 x 1.90 cms
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This work argues that those trading with Athens were mainly poor and foreign (hence politically insignificant to Athens). Moreover, Athens and other Greek states had no merchant marine of their own and took only limited measures, always short of war and lesser means of commercial imperialism, to attract maritime traders.
This is the first full work since Hasebroek's Trade and Politics in the Ancient World to deal directly with the place of maritime traders in ancient Greece. Its main assumption is that traders' juridical, economic, political and unofficial standing can only be viewed correctly through the lens of the polis framework. It argues that those engaging in inter-regional trade with classical Athens were mainly poor and foreign (hence politically inert at Athens). Moreover, Athens, as well as other classical Greek poleis, resorted to limited measures, well short of war or other modes of economic imperialism, to attract them. However, at least in the minds of individual Athenians considerations of traders' indispensability to Athens displaced what otherwise would have been low estimations of their social status.
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