Warriors into Traders

The Power of the Market in Early Greece

By: David W. Tandy

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Paperback | 27 November 2000 | Edition Number 1

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The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age. This book is a study of the economic and cultural upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the eighth century, and the role that poetry played in this upheaval. Using tools from political and economic anthropology, David Tandy argues that between about 800 and 700 B.C., a great transformation of dominant economic institutions took place involving wrenching adjustments in the way status and wealth were distributed within the Greek communities.

Tandy explores the economic organization of preindustrial societies, both ancient and contemporary, to shed light on the Greek experience. He argues that the sudden shift in Greek economic formations led to new social behaviors and to new social structures such as the polis, itself a by-product of economic change. Unraveling the dialectic between the material record and epic poetry, Tandy shows that the epic tradition mirrored these new social behaviors and that it portrayed the stresses that economic change brought to the ancient Aegean world.

Tandy brings in comparative evidence from other small-scale communities beset by changes, spotlighting the specific plight of one community, Ascra in Boeotia, on whose behalf Hesiod sang his Works and Days. The result is a lively, moving account of a human dilemma that, many centuries later, is all too familiar.

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Tables
Datable burials in Athens, Attica, and the Argolid	p. 47
Annual increase in burials in Athens, Attica, and the Argolid	p. 48
Datable burials in the Argolid	p. 50
Annual increase in burials in the Argolid	p. 50
Burials in Athens and Attica, by age	p. 51
Deaths in Athens and Attica	p. 52
Annual increase in deaths in Athens and Attica	p. 52
Offerings to Zeus Ombrios on Mt. Hymettus	p. 54
Offerings to Zeus Ombrios, by vessel type	p. 54
Population growth in North America	p. 56
Population growth in select regions of the world	p. 57
Greek colonies in the west	p. 77
Figures
Renfrew's growth model	p. 34
Burials per annum in Athens, Attica, and the Argolid	p. 49
Burials in Athens	p. 53
The symmetry of reciprocity	p. 95
External reciprocity between "nations"	p. 97
The centricity of redistribution	p. 102
The centricity and simplicity of householding	p. 105
Introduction of markets	p. 115
Simultaneous reciprocity, redistribution, and markets	p. 117
Limited market system	p. 126
Zagora on Andros	p. 146
Emporio on Chios	p. 147
Koukounaries on Paros	p. 148
Maps
Greece and the Aegean	p. 3
The Greeks in the west	p. 60
The eastern Mediterranean	p. 61
Boeotia	p. 204
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