"Eschewing the anachronistic oversimplification of modernist and formalist theory, Migeotte deftly marshals primary sources in the service of nuanced description. Migeotte's accessible text restores the ancient economy--embedded, as the sources show, in a political, social, and cultural context--to its proper place in Greek civilization. A triumph of scholarly yet readable exposition!"--Nicholas F. Jones, author of "Rural Athens Under the Democracy" "Migeotte's work, firmly anchored in ancient evidence and balanced in ...
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"Eschewing the anachronistic oversimplification of modernist and formalist theory, Migeotte deftly marshals primary sources in the service of nuanced description. Migeotte's accessible text restores the ancient economy--embedded, as the sources show, in a political, social, and cultural context--to its proper place in Greek civilization. A triumph of scholarly yet readable exposition!"--Nicholas F. Jones, author of "Rural Athens Under the Democracy" "Migeotte's work, firmly anchored in ancient evidence and balanced in judgment, is undoubtedly the best compact survey of the ancient Greek economy currently available."--Walter Scheidel, lead editor of "The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World"
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