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The Economy of the Greek Cities offers readers a clear and concise overview of ancient Greek economies from the archaic to the Roman period. Léopold Migeotte approaches Greek economic activities from the perspective of the ancient sources, situating them within the context of the city-state (polis). He illuminates the ways citizens intervened in the economy and considers such important sectors as agriculture, craft industries, public works, and trade. Focusing on how the private and public spheres impinged on each other, this book provides a broad understanding of the political and economic ch

The Economy of the Greek Cities offers readers a clear and concise overview of ancient Greek economies from the archaic to the Roman period. Léopold Migeotte approaches Greek economic activities from the perspective of the ancient sources, situating them within the context of the city-state (polis). He illuminates the ways citizens intervened in the economy and considers such important sectors as agriculture, craft industries, public works, and trade. Focusing on how the private and public spheres impinged on each other, this book provides a broad understanding of the political and economic changes affecting life in the Greek city-states over a thousand-year period.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by David Graeber -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration sources -- Introduction -- 1. Warburg the anthropologist , or the decoding of a utopia : From the biology of images to the anthropology of memory -- Warburg: Visual symbols and chimeras -- Forgotten roots, or the biology of images -- Forms and ideas: Pitt-Rivers and the prophecy of the past -- Hjalmar Stolpe: Prototypes and cryptoglyphs -- A return to the lightning-snake -- Warburg the anthropologist, or the decoding of a utopia -- Image-sequences and chimera-objects -- Image-sequences -- Chimera-objects -- 2. An Amerindian mnemonic form: Pictography and parallelism -- A decoding of pictography: The Dakota Bible -- Pictography and shamanistic song: The Kuna case -- A few more Amerindian cases -- Pictography and mnemonic representation -- 3. Memory, projection, belief: Or, the metamorphoses of the locutor -- A complex locutor -- Projection and belief -- Sound and sense: A musical way of listening -- 4. Christ in America: Or, an antagonistic memory -- An Apache Christ -- Lady Sebastiana -- Image, conflict, and paradox -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index