Description
Lin Foxhall explores the cultivation of the olive as a longer case observe for working out ancient Greek agriculture in its landscape, economic, social, and political settings. Evidence from written sources, archaeology, and visible images is assembled to concentrate on what was once special concerning the cultivation and processing of the olive in classical and archaic Greece, and the way and why these practices differed from Roman ones. This investigation opens up new tactics of interested by the economies of the archaic and classical Greek world.