Trade was a necessity in the ancient Greek world, yet the prevalent scholarly view is that Greek states intervened in foreign trade only rarely and sporadically

Markets, Households and City-States in the Ancient Greek Economy brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy. The essays inv

An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamenta

This volume examines the diversity of networks and communities in the classical and early Hellenistic Greek world, with particular emphasis on those which took

This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore the experiences of subordinates and the nature of their subordination in ancient Greec