[PDF] Roman Port Societies eBook

Author : Pascal Arnaud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1108787827

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In this book, an international team of experts draws upon a rich range of Latin and Greek texts to explore the roles played by individuals at ports in activities and institutions that were central to the maritime commerce of the Roman Mediterranean. In particular, they focus upon some of the interpretative issues that arise in dealing with this kind of epigraphic evidence, the archaeological contexts of the texts, social institutions and social groups in ports, legal issues relating to harbours, case studies relating to specific ports, and mercantile connections and shippers. While much attention is inevitably focused upon the richer epigraphic collections of Ostia and Ephesos, the papers draw upon inscriptions from a very wide range of ports across the Mediterranean. The volume will be invaluable for all scholars and students of Roman history.

Author : Pascal Arnaud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1108486223

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The first in-depth analysis of the epigraphic evidence for the societies of the ports of the Roman Mediterranean.

Author : Anna Marguerite McCann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1400886686

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The excavation of the earliest Roman port and fishery known establishes Cosa as the center for the flourishing commercial activities of the powerful Sestius family and extends the international trading picture of the Romans back to at least the early second century B.C. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1107032245

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This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

Author : Marta García Morcillo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 2023-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000845540

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As it is today, the property market was a key and dynamic economic sector in Ancient Rome. Its study demands a deep understanding of Roman society, of the normative frameworks and the notions of wealth, value, identity and status that shaped individual and collective mentalities. This book takes a multisided insight into real estate as the subject of short- and long-term economic investments, of speculative businesses ventures, of power abuses and inequalities, of social aspirations, but also of essential housing needs. The volume discusses thoroughly relevant and new literary, legal, epigraphic, papyrological and archaeological evidence, and incorporates comparative historical perspectives and methodologies, including economic theory and current, critical sociological debates about the functioning of modern real estate markets and issues linked to its commodification and regulation. In pursuing this line of enquiry, the contributions that make up the book investigate the impact of ideas such as profit, risk, security and trust in transfers, management and use of residential houses, commercial buildings and productive estates in urban and rural contexts. The work further evaluates the legal responses to and the public enforcement strategies concerning such activities, the high mobility of fortunes and unstable property-rights that resulted from one-off but also structural, political, financial, economic and institutional crises that marked the history of the Roman Republic and Principate. This book aims to demonstrate the relevance of the study of pre-modern real estate markets today, and will be of significant interest to readers of economic history as well as Roman law, Roman archaeology, the history of urbanism and social history.

Author : Astrid Van Oyen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108851452

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In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike. How did it shape the Roman empire? The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage cuts across the scales of farmer and state to trace the practical and moral reverberations of storage from villas in Italy to silos in Gaul, and from houses in Pompeii to warehouses in Ostia. Following on from the material turn, an abstract notion of 'surplus' makes way for an emphasis on storage's material transformations (e.g. wine fermenting; grain degrading; assemblages forming), which actively shuffle social relations and economic possibilities, and are a sensitive indicator of changing mentalities. This archaeological study tackles key topics, including the moral resonance of agricultural storage; storage as both a shared and a contested concern during and after conquest; the geography of knowledge in domestic settings; the supply of the metropolis of Rome; and the question of how empires scale up. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Roman archaeology and history, as well as anthropologists who study the links between the scales of farmer and state.

Author : Samuel Dill
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752325437

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Reproduction of the original: Roman Society by Samuel Dill