There are also grounds for expressing some concerns about R. The small sample size of any collection of evidence about traders and shipowners and the typically incomplete nature of the information about individuals and their economic activities currently available to us combine to make any quantitative analysis suspect at best.
Perhaps more importantly, the fashion in which he interprets the significance of the prosopographical information in his catalog of traders can be alarmingly rough and ready. As it turns out, every trader about whose financial status we possess information was wealthy. One might wish to attribute this to source bias, but it is hard to see how this evidence could be used to support the argument that most traders were poor, though this is precisely what R. Despite this litany of criticisms, specialists in the ancient Greek economy will find Maritime Traders to be a useful addition to the scholarly literature.
In addition, R. The text itself is impeccably produced, with but a handful of small punctuation and printing errors. The increasing financial pressures under which scholarly presses operate and the difficulty of finding journals willing to publish long collections of evidence such as that found in the appendices of Maritime Traders mean that potentially valuable catalogs compiled in dissertations are all too frequently virtually inaccessible.
It is refreshing to see that Cambridge was willing to print R. One hopes that in the near future the potentialities of electronic publication will be exploited to make more work of this sort easily and inexpensively accessible. The text is 81 pages long without appendices and bibliography. Oxford University, In the introduction to Trade in the Ancient Economy London Mattingly and John Salmon eds. Athenian Economy and Society Princeton , pp. Skip to content.
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