New PDF release: Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient

By Lin Foxhall

Lin Foxhall explores the cultivation of the olive as a longer case research for realizing historic Greek agriculture in its panorama, monetary, social, and political settings. proof from written resources, archaeology, and visible pictures is assembled to target what was once targeted concerning the cultivation and processing of the olive in classical and archaic Greece, and the way and why those practices differed from Roman ones. This research opens up new methods of wondering the economies of the archaic and classical Greek world.

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