Trade, Traders and the Ancient City - Paperback

by Helen Parkins (Editor), Christopher Smith (Editor)

This comprehensive and well-documented book provides a critically up-to-date analysis of trade in the ancient world, which takes into account a diverse range of evidence.

Author Biography

Helen Parkins is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University. She is the editor of Roman Urbanism: Beyond the Consumer City (Routledge 1997). Christopher Smith is a Lecturer in Ancient History in the University of St. Andrews. His publications include Early Rome and Latium: Economy and Society c. 1000-500 BC (Oxford University Press 1996).