How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome
Beginning with the third century B.C. Roman economic policy started to contrast more and more sharply with that in the Hellenistic world, especially Egypt.
Poisons, Poisoning and the Drug Trade in Ancient Rome
The first recorded instance of poisoning in ancient Rome occurred in 331 BC when, during an epidemic, a large number of women were accused of concerted mass poisoning.
Integrating Late Roman Cities, Countryside and Trade
What this paper proposes are two models of two different economic aspects of the late imperial period which are generated from an analysis of the same socio-economic background factors.
Commercial Amphoras: The Earliest Consumer Packages?
This article presents the hypothesis that the ancient commercial amphora was not only a very well-designed shipping container, but it may have been the first “consumer package” as well.
A life of luxury in the desert? The food and fodder supply to Mons Claudianus
Mons Claudinas, a quarry settlement known for its granodiorite which, as an imperial monopoly, was used for imperial building projects in Rome, lies in a remote part of the Eastern Desert of Egypt, some 500 km south of Cairo and 120 km east of the Nile, at an altitude of c.700 m in the heart of the Red Sea mountains.
Contacts and trade at Late Bronze Age Hazor: aspects of intercultural relationships and identity in the Eastern Mediterranean
The city of Hazor appears to have been one of the largest in Canaan in the Late Bronze Age, yet no real attempt to trace the source of its affluence has been made. No city can prosper in isolation; hence intercultural relationships are of greatest importance for a city’s development.
Separating Romans and barbarians: rural settlement and Romano-British material culture in North Britain
This thesis investigates the role which Roman artefacts played within rural settlements in North Britain during the Romano-British period. The possibility that Roman artefacts were used by native Britons as markers of prestige is explored through the presence or absence of Roman artefact types.
A comparative perspective on the determinants of the scale and productivity of maritime trade in the Roman Mediterranean
The scale and productivity of maritime trade is a function of environmental conditions, political processes and economic development that determine demand, and more specifically of trading costs.
Coin quality, coin quantity, and coin value in early China and the Roman world
In ancient China, early bronze ‘tool money’ came to be replaced by round bronze coins that were supplemented by uncoined gold and silver bullion, whereas in the Greco-Roman world, precious-metal coins dominated from the beginnings of coinage.
The eighth-century revolution
The eighth-century revolution Ian Morris (Stanford University) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: December (2005) Abstract Through most of the 20th century classicists saw…