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Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World

By C. M. Reed

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9780521268486, 0521268486
Open Library ID
OL17126127M
Language
english
Format
RAR
Filesize
7 MB (7158634 bytes)
Pages
180\0
Topic
History
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

It has been claimed that ancient Athens differed from ancient Sparta and resembled Renaissance Italian republics and the early modern Dutch republic in being an aggressively commercial state with a business-minded elite. This work aims to refute that view. It argues that those trading with Athens were mainly poor and foreign--hence politically insignificant to Athens. Athens and other Greek states had no merchant marine of their own and took only limited measures, always short of war and lesser means of commercial imperialism, to attract maritime traders.

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