Prologue -- Listening to the Silenced -- Part I: Introduction to Olympian Political Economy -- Property -- In Praise of the Homo Faber -- Interlude -- Olympianism and Democracy -- Unity in Democratic Action -- Part II: Olympian Culture System -- Ecumenism, Conviviality, and the Modality of...

Introduction: Roman pride and prejudices -- Quamvis indignus: criers, status, and soundscapes -- Touch, pollution, and the mortuary trades in the Roman Mediterranean -- Scent and sensibilities: tanners in the ancient Mediterranean -- Currency and control: legal disrepute and associations of mint...

1: The Dark Light of Early Greek Texts on Trade -- 2: Direct Evidence for Long-Distance Exchange from Early Greece -- 3: Assessing Quantitative Change in the Archaeological Record -- 4: Bronze Deposition (and Circulation?), Trade in Commodities, and Evidence from around the Mediterranean -- 5:...

The establishment of Christianity in the late- and post-Roman world caused an economic as well as a religious revolution, but, while a great deal of attention has been paid to the religious developments of the period, the impact of the establishment of the Church on the economy has attracted...

1. Chapter 1: A historian’s introduction to paleoclimatology -- Chapter 2: A hard row to hoe. Climate change from the crop perspective -- Chapter 3: Who follows the elephant will have problems. Thought on modelling Roman responses to climate (changes) -- Chapter 4: Famines, demographic crises...