L’exploitation du monde végétal en Grèce classique et hellénistique. Essai de synthèse

Amigues, Suzanne

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“…The majority of interest in this topic in the Classical and Hellenistic periods has been focused on agriculture, and in particular, the cultivation of the so‐called Mediterranean Triad, consisting of cereals (especially wheat and barley), olives, and grapes. Work on Greek agriculture has until recently largely synthesised literary references and meagre palaeobotanical information (Amigues, ; Amouretti, ; Foxhall, ; Megaloudi, ). The difficulty in relying on literary sources for our understanding of the exploitation of plants, however, is that they often present skewed or contradictory information on their use.…”

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The environmental history of Classical and Hellenistic Greece: The contribution of environmental archaeology

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This article provides an overview of the environmental history of Classical and Hellenistic Greece with particular reference to material evidence, outlining current trends in work on the relationships between humans and the flora, fauna, and climate of Greece from the fifth to first centuries BCE. Whereas scholars of more modern periods have embraced environmental history, historians of ancient Greece have been slow to do so. Most research on environmental history in the premodern Greek world has focused on prehistoric periods, with only a narrow set of topics relating to Classical and Hellenistic periods discussed, such as deforestation, erosion, and agriculture. In recent decades, however, the increased prominence of subdisciplines dealing with the study of organic archaeological material, such as palaeobotany and zooarchaeology, as well as advances in the archaeological sciences, especially in techniques like stable isotope analysis, has yielded much of interest for historians. I suggest in particular that historians more familiar with written sources or nonorganic archaeological remains can play a crucial rule in contextualizing this evidence by integrating it into their studies of social, economic, and political history. This is especially the case with climate change, evidence of which in the ancient Greek world is rapidly accumulating but with which ancient historians have only begun to contend.

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What was the "Roman economy?" In this volume, we apply this term to economic developments that occurred within the Roman Empire, a polity that evolved from an alliance system in peninsular Italy into a large empire that from the second century bce onward came to dominate and then rule the most densely populated parts of western Eurasia and North Africa west of Mesopotamia and Iran before it eventually experienced substantial contraction in the fifth and seventh centuries ce. Although many of the following chapters devote particular attention to conditions in Roman Italy, the original core of the empire, coverage extends across the varied territories under Roman control. More specifically, this volume seeks to relate economic structures and processes to the formation of the imperial state. 1 Thanks to its exceptional size and duration, the Roman Empire offers one of the best opportunities to study economic development in the context of an agrarian world empire. Moreover, the fact that the Roman period was the only time when the entire Mediterranean basin was contained within a single political domain raises the question of how much the specific characteristics of the Roman economy owed to imperial unification. The Roman economy was a typical premodern economy in the sense that it depended on organic fuels and was dominated by agriculture and production within households. In developmental terms, it can be seen as the continuation and culmination of the expansion of the Hellenistic economies of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East that in turn represented the mature phase of the political and economic recovery that had commenced in the Early Iron Age. The Roman period witnessed the extension of Near Eastern, Hellenic, and Hellenistic features such as urbanization, monetization, market exchange, taxation, and chattel slavery into the western peripheries of Eurasia.

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L’exploitation du monde végétal en Grèce classique et hellénistique. Essai de synthèse

Cited by 27 publications

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The environmental history of Classical and Hellenistic Greece: The contribution of environmental archaeology

The environmental history of Classical and Hellenistic Greece: The contribution of environmental archaeology

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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy

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