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Economic Theory and the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive introduction to the application of contemporary economic theory to the ancient societies of the Mediterranean Sea from the period of 5000 BCE to 400 CE. Offers an accessible presentation of modern economic theory and its relationships to ancient societiesPresents innovative expositions and applications of economic theory to issues in antiquity not often found in the literatureFeatures insightful discussions of the relevance of contemporary economic models to various situations in antiquityWritten for a broad range of schol

This book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment in the final era of a unified Roman Empire, 284-476 CE. Author Daniel Washburn argues that exile was both a penalty and a symbol. It applied to those who committed a misstep or crossed the wrong person; it also stood as a marker of affliction or failure. Like other punishments, it articulated and cemented the power asymmetry between the punisher and the punished. Distinctively, it maneuvered the body of the banished in order to tell that tale. The process of banishment also operated as a form of negotiation between the party.

1. Chapter 1: A historian's introduction to paleoclimatology -- Chapter 2: A hard row to hoe. Climate change from the crop perspective -- Chapter 3: Who follows the elephant will have problems. Thought on modelling Roman responses to climate (changes) -- Chapter 4: Famines, demographic crises and climate in Italy, 1650-1913 -- Chapter 5: Collapse and resilience in prehistoric archaeology: Questioning concepts and causalities in models of climate-induced societal transformations -- Chapter 6: Climate, state building and political change in Egypt during the Early Bronze Age: a direct relation? -- Chapter 7: Vulnerability to climate change in Late Bronze Age Peloponnese (Greece) -- Chapter 8: Saving up for a rainy day? Climate events, human-induced processes, and their potential effects on people's coping strategies in the Mycenaean Argive Plain, Greece -- Chapter 9: Peloponnesian land-use dynamics and climate variability in the first millennium BCE -- Chapter 10: Volcanic eruptions, veiled Suns, and Nile failure in Egyptian history: Integrating hydroclimate into understandings of historical change -- Chapter 11: The environmental imperialism of the Roman Empire in northwestern Europe -- Chapter 12: Seasonal drought on Roman rivers: transport vs. irrigation -- Chapter 13: The Antonine crisis: Climate change as a potential trigger for epidemiological and economic turmoil -- Chapter 14: Climate change and the productive landscape in the Mediterranean region in the Roman period -- Chapter 15: Viticulture as a climate proxy for the Roman world? Global warming as a comparative framework for interpreting the ancient source material in Italy and the West (ca. 200 BC–AD 200) -- Chapter 16: Risks for farming families in the Roman World -- Chapter 17: Figures in an imperial landscape. Ecological and societal factors on settlement patterns and agriculture in Roman Italy -- Chapter 18: Hydrological changes in Late Antiquity: spatio-temporal characteristics and socio-economic impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Chapter 19: Resilience and adaptation at the end of Antiquity. An evaluation of the impact of climate change in Late Roman western-central Anatolia -- Chapter 20: The social metabolism of past societies. A new approach to environmental changes and societal responses in the territory of Sagalassos (Turkey).

Chapter 1: Pathways to reframing the Roman economy: from uniformity to diversity? -- Part I Unusual actors, attitudes and perspectives -- Chapter 2: Textile economy in the Veneto Region (North-Eastern Italy): a textile tools oriented spatial approach -- Chapter 3: Craftsmen and shopkeepers serving the army: the example of the colony of Lugdunum (1st century AD) -- Part II Unconventional loci of production -- Chapter 5: Roman metallurgic production in the Veneto region between urban and rural contexts -- Chapter 6: Pigs in the city, bees on the roof: intra-urban animal husbandry and butchery in Roman Spain -- Chapter 7: Olive Oil Production and Economic Growth in the Roman Provinces: the Peculiar Case of Volubilis in Mauretania Tingitana -- Chapter 8: Roman road stations in Gallia Cisalpina: an archaeological approach to elusive central places -- Chapter 9: Ephemeral Economies? Investigating Roman wetland exploitation in the Pontine marshes (Lazio, Central Italy) -- Chapter 10: Settling the Salinaria? Evaluating site location patterns of Iron Age and Roman salt production in northern Gaul -- Chapter 11: Ollae, cistulae, cadi, utres, cupae and other intangible vessels in the Roman economy. Some case studies -- Part V Revising traditional narratives -- Chapter 12: Reconstructing economic rural landscapes. The case of southern Etruria -- Chapter 13: Ancient Indian Ocean Trade and the Roman Economy. .