AN3031 The Roman Economy
Course
Catalogue Entry
Course co-ordinator: Professor Greg Woolf
Introduction
This page is designed to provide access to course materials that should
be useful to those taking AN3031 The Roman Economy. It will also provide
links to sites that may be useful, including some that make available texts
we shall be using throughout the course. Suggestions for other links that
might be useful for this course will be gratefully received.
Internal Course Materials
This section is not designed to supercede the
module booklet, but will contain additional material, some of which
should be useful to those taking the course.
More material will be added as the course continues.
Handouts used in 2000
This section consists of copies of the handouts used in 2000 when the module
was taught partly through a lecture course. They are left here as a resource
for you to use if you wish. I have not attempted to modify or update the
bibliography on them. I have also provided the the
2000 module booklet. This, and the following materials, may be read
with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Many web-browsers already come supplied with
this, but if yours does not, you can download a free copy of the Acrobat
Reader from Adobe's web site at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.
Lecture 1 (Olive
Oil) Handout
Lecture 2 (Peasant
Economics) Handout
Lecture 3 (Wealth and
Virtue) Handout
Lecture 4 (The Family
as a Managerial Unit) Handout
Lecture 5 (Banking)
Handout
Lecture 6 (Roman Business
Law) Handout
Lecture 7 (Fishing
for Profit) Handout
Lecture 8 (Sheep in
the Roman Economy) Handout
Lecture 9 (The Economics
of Roman Urbanism) Handout
Lecture 10 (Financing
Imperialism) Handout
Lecture 11 (Moses
Finley and his Critics) Handout
Helpful external links
Links in this section include some that I have located and a number that
have been located by members of this class. All suggestions for additional
links are very welcome.
The Amphoras
Project - good on the details of individual productions
Roman Amphoras
in Britain - a well illustrated article that also provides a good introduction
to the main amphora types found in the west and to what was found in each.
Monte Testaccio - recent excavations
- this site includes excellent images and interim reports on older and recent
excavations on the Mount.
A Cosa bibliography
for further information on Cosa and the Ager Cosanus
Oxyrhynchus:
A city and its texts - An On-line exhibition with sections on papyri,
material culture and lots of illustrations
La Graufesenque
- on the products and productions of one of the main terra sigillata producers
of southern Gaul
Ostia - a marvellous resource
that provides access to interactive plans of the site, photographs nad a
mass of other information about one of the two main ports of Rome.
Karanis-
this Egyptian village is characterised by a phenomenal level of preservation
of the material culture of everyday life in the Roman period
Antiquity
between "primitivism" and "modernism" - this paper
by P.F.Bang offers an important comment on the state of the debate about
Moses Finley's views on the nature of the Roman economy.
Roman
ceramics - a megasite on every aspect of Roman pottery. Not for the
faint-hearted.
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