The economy of Pompeii /
This volume presents fourteen chapters by Roman archaeologists and historians, discussing approaches to the economic history of Pompeii and the role of the Pompeian evidence in debates about the Roman economy. Four themes are discussed. The first is the position of Pompeii and its agricultural envir...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford studies on the Roman economy.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Iinvestigating an urban economy / Miko Flohr, Andrew Wilson
- The agricultural economy of Pompeii : surplus and dependence / Girolamo Ferdinando De Simone
- Quantifying Pompeii : population, inequality, and the utban economy / Miko Flohr
- Consumer behaviour in Pompeii : theory and evidence / Nick M. Ray
- Sewers, archaeobotany, and diet at Pompeii and Herculaneum / Erica Rowan
- Skeletal remains and the health of the population at Pompeii / Estelle Lazer
- Measuring the movement economy : a network analysis of Pompeii / Eric Poehler
- Urban production and the Pompeian economy / Nicolas Monteix
- Wealthy entrepreneurs and the urban economy : Insula VI 1 and its wider economic context / Damian Robinson
- The economics of Pompeian painting / Domenico Esposito
- Re-evaluating Pompeii's coin finds : monetary transactions and urban waste in the retail economy of an ancient city / Steven J.R. Ellis
- Bes, butting bulls, and bars : the life of coinage at Pompeii / Richard Hobbs
- Curency and credit in the Bay of Naples in the first century AD / Koenraad Verboven
- Conflicts, contract enforcement, and business communities in the archive of the Sulpicii / Wim Broekaert
- Pompeii revisted / Willem Jongman.