Documentary sources in ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman economic history

"This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient Economy by bringing together documentary sources from Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world. Addressing textual corpora that have traditionally been studied separately, the collected papers overturn the conventional view of a fundamental divide between the economic institutions of these two regions. The premise is that, while controlling for differences, texts from either cultural setting can be brought to bear on the other and can shed light, through their use as proxy data, on such questions as economic mentalities and market development"--

שנה

2014

שפה

English

הוצאה

Oxbow Books

מהדורות

5

עמודים

338

ISBN

9781782977582

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata