Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt
than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era …

In The Open Sea, JG Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the
Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era …

Today's information technology often seems to take on a life of its own, spreading into every
part of our lives. In the Roman world things were different. Technologies were limited to …

This paper outlines a new framework for the historical study of Rome and Italy during the
middle republican period. We argue that traditional approaches centred upon social …

The relationship between connectivity and economic activity is a subject of current debate in
Mediterranean archaeology, and recent scholarship has shown the significance of this topic …

Understanding the sustainability of land use systems over time requires an accounting of the
diversity of land uses and their varying influences on the environment. Here we present a …

In this article we use pollen data from six sites in southern Greece to study long-term
vegetation change in this region from 1000 BCE to 600 CE. Based on insights from …

From luxury spice to medical cure-all, silphium was a product coveted throughout the
ancient world and occupied an essential place in the export economy of ancient Cyrene …

Research on ancient Greek rural settlement and agricultural economies often emphasises
political agency as a driving force behind landscape change, with comparatively less …

The epic struggle between Carthage and Rome, two of the superpowers of the ancient
world, is most famous for land battles in Italy, on the Iberian peninsula and in North Africa …