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Oil, Wine, and the Cultural Economy of Ancient Greece - From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era (Hardcover)
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Oil, Wine, and the Cultural Economy of Ancient Greece - From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era (Hardcover)
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In this book, Catherine E. Pratt explores how oil and wine became
increasingly entangled in Greek culture, from the Late Bronze Age
to the Archaic period. Using ceramic, architectural, and
archaeobotanical data, she argues that Bronze Age exchange
practices initiated a strong network of dependency between oil and
wine production, and the people who produced, exchanged, and used
them. After the palatial collapse, these prehistoric connections
intensified during the Iron Age and evolved into the large-scale
industries of the Classical period. Pratt argues that oil and wine
in pre-Classical Greece should be considered 'cultural
commodities', products that become indispensable for proper social
and economic exchanges well beyond economic advantage. Offering a
detailed diachronic account of the changing roles of surplus oil
and wine in the economies of pre-classical Greek societies, her
book contributes to a broader understanding of the complex
interconnections between agriculture, commerce, and culture in the
ancient Mediterranean.
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