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Book cover of an edition of Oikonomikos from 1830. The Economics (Ancient Greek: Οἰκονομικά; Latin: Oeconomica) is a work ascribed to Aristotle. Most modern scholars attribute it to a student of Aristotle or of his successor Theophrastus. [1]
The economy of the Greek cities: From the Archaic period to the early Roman Empire. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2009. Morris, Ian. "The Athenian economy twenty years after The ancient economy." Classical Philology 89, no. 4 (1994): 351–66. Pomeroy, Sarah B. Xenophon's Oeconomicus: A social and historical commentary. Oxford: Clarendon ...
Sparta [1] was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon ( Λακεδαίμων , Lakedaímōn ), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement in the valley of Evrotas river in Laconia, in southeastern Peloponnese . [ 2 ]
The new Greek government deliberately adopted land reforms intended to create a class of free peasants. The "Law for the Dotation of Greek Families" of 1835 extended 2,000 drachmas credit to every family, to be used to buy a 12-acre (49,000 m 2) farm at auction under a low-cost loan plan. The country was full of displaced refugees and empty ...
Lycurgus (/ l aɪ ˈ k ɜːr ɡ ə s /; Ancient Greek: Λυκοῦργος Lykourgos) was the legendary lawgiver of Sparta, credited with the formation of its eunomia (' good order '), [1] involving political, economic, and social reforms to produce a military-oriented Spartan society in accordance with the Delphic oracle. The Spartans in the ...
In the history of economic thought, ancient economic thought refers to the ideas from people before the Middle Ages. Economics in the classical age is defined in the modern analysis as a factor of ethics and politics, only becoming an object of study as a separate discipline during the 18th century. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Ancient Economy is an influential book about the economic system of classical antiquity written by the classicist Moses I. Finley. [1] It was originally published in 1973 with new editions in 1985 and 1992. Finley interpreted the economy from 1000 BC to AD 500 sociologically rather than through use of economic models (as did Michael ...
They lived in their own cities in the perioecis, which were described by ancient authors as poleis. [4] [5] [6] These cities were under the control of the Spartan state, [7] but were self-governing on domestic issues. [8] The perioeci were obliged to follow Spartan foreign policy, and supplied men to fight in the Spartan army. [8]