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Article: Mercanti e politica nel mondo antico.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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Mercanti e politica nel mondo antico. Edited by CARLO ZACCAGNINI. Rome: "L'ERMA" DI BRETSCHNEIDER, 2003. Pp. 361. [euro]180.
Zaccagnini's volume addresses the question of how mercantile activity in the ancient world was affected by politics. There is no sustained argument in the collection, but a series of unrelated reflections on particular cases, which we will briefly summarize here.
J. Renger's essay explores the supposed change from the third-millennium temple retainers who conducted trade to the risk-taking entrepreneurs of the second millennium. A. Archi shows that the Ebla silver accounts had prices that varied wildly. He asserts there was ...