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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Lin Foxhall |
ISBN: | 0198152884 9780198152880 |
OCLC Number: | 144771579 |
Description: | xvii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Wealthy households: theory, sources, methodology -- 3. Agricultural holdings of large-scale households -- 4. Domestic consumption of olive oil -- 5. Cultivating the olive -- 6. Processing olives -- 7. Arboriculture and ornamental gardens in ancient Greece -- 8. Conclusions. |
Responsibility: | Lin Foxhall. |
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This is an important volume, one that perhaps [Foxhall] alone could have produced, and it is to be welcomed. * J.G. Manning, Classical Review * an outstanding and transcendent piece of research. It is also a fascinating work to read and engage with. * David Mattingly, Agricultural History Review * ...a groundbreaking book. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * ...a straightforward and technical study of cultivation and processing...Yet at the same time designed as a case study to shed light on more general characteristics of the pre-Hellenistic Greek economy * Walter Scheidel, Times Literary Supplement * thorough and enlightening at every step of the way * D. Brent Sandy, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papapyrologists * ...this original work, matured over time, is based on a deep knowledge of Greece and its olive production. * Jean-Pierre Brun Antiquity * Foxhall's much-anticipated monograph on Greek oleo-culture is a throughly informative and provocative work that now ranks among the most important treatments of the subject. * Bradley A. Ault American Journal of Archaeology * Foxhall does a terrific job... The volume is amply illustrated with helpful archaeological plans and photographs whose content is actually discernible * David W. Tandy, Europe: Ancient and Medieval * Packed with judicious, commonsensical observations, and founded as much on sweaty survey work in the field as on library lucubration, here is a comprehensive, engaging and exceptionally clear account of olive production * Gerald Cadogan, The Anglo-Hellenic Review * Read more...


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