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The Economic and Productive Processes in the Hellenistic ‘Globalization’: From the Archaeological Documentation to the Historical Reconstruction

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Abstract

The present study mainly focuses on the chronological phase, ranging from the fourth until the first century B.C., when the establishment of a network of relations in the Mediterranean area was completed and, during the first two centuries, seems to have been mainly managed by the Greeks. Magistrates, institutions and cult places acted as commissioning authorities and producers in a multi-level productive and commercial system, which became more and more integrated over time. The geographical spread of manufacturing centres, from the end of the fourth century B.C. and particularly during the third century B.C., corresponds to the most dynamic phase of the demographic growth and of the urbanization process, during which new social languages are established. Production and consumption suited the new expressive models, thus definitively deleting the Archaic and Classical scheme of management of the society and of the collective life.

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Notes

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    Gramsci 1947).

  2. 2.

    Descat (2008).

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    For an overall overview of the debate, see Mazza (2002), pp. VII–LXXX), with reference bibliography.

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    Rostovtzeff (1926), Rostovtzeff (1941); Contra: Bowersock ( 1974): 15–23; Momigliano (1994): 32–43; Reinhold (2002): 82–100; Andreau, Berelowitch (2008), partic., Descat (2008).

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    Archibald, Davies, Gabrielsen, and Oliver (2006) and Archibald, Davies, and Gabrielsen (2011).

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    Lund (2007), Lawall (2005), Porro (1916).

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    Garlan (2000), Jörens (1999), Brugugnone (1986), Gentili (1958).

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    Athenaeus 11 784c.

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    Lund (2011), Eiring, Lund (2004), Whitbread (1995).

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    Capdetrey and Zurbach (2012).

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    Lippolis (2016).

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    Angeli Bernardini (1977).

  13. 13.

    Jaeggi, Petrakova (2007).

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    Todisco (2012), Denoyelle (2008, 2009), De Juliis (2004), Schmidt (2002), Bonacasa et al. (2002), Trendall (1967, 1974, 1966).

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    Denoyelle (1997), Denoyelle (1992).

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    Matheson (1995).

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    D’Andria (1975,1980).

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    Lippolis (2015).

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    Morley (2007).

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    Lund (2011); Lund (1999).

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    Rauh (1999).

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    Lund (under press).

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    Malkin, Constakopoulou, Panagopoulou (2011).

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    Greco, Lombardo (2012), Tsetskhladze, Hargrave (2011), Yntema (2000), Lepore (1969).

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Lippolis, E. (2022). The Economic and Productive Processes in the Hellenistic ‘Globalization’: From the Archaeological Documentation to the Historical Reconstruction. In: Frangipane, M., Poettinger, M., Schefold, B. (eds) Ancient Economies in Comparative Perspective. Frontiers in Economic History . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08763-9_13

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