Economics Archive
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Women in Egypt – how the status of women in Egypt changed during the Ptolemaic Period
Posted on September 12, 2012 | No CommentsThis dissertation will thus attempt to shed light on the question of how and if the status of women changed in Ptolemaic Egypt during the Hellenistic period. The women in question will be both of the native Egyptian population and of the Graeco-Macedonian upper class who migrated toEgypt along with the early Ptolemaic dynasty (and who continued tomigrate to Egypt throughout the Hellenistic period). -
Slavery in the Roman Empire: Numbers and Origins
Posted on September 10, 2012 | No CommentsThough slavery was a prevailing feature of all Mediterranean countries in antiquity, the Romans had more slaves and depended more on them than any other people. -
The Development of Trade between the Roman Empire and the East under Augustus
Posted on September 9, 2012 | No CommentsAlthough Augustus may not have been aware of the ultimate consequences, he was not blind to the more immediate advantages of the oriental commerce. -
Hadrian
Posted on August 30, 2012 | No CommentsHadrian -
Human labor and harbor capacity at Rome
Posted on August 16, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper aims to reconstruct and suggest many of the aspects of Roman dock workers including their numbers, hiring practices, and unloading practices. The role of harbor capacity will also be reviewed to understand Rome's ability to safely import several hundred thousand tons and prevent famine. -
Who Were the Sea People?
Posted on July 29, 2012 | No CommentsSince the Middle Ages, however, Homer's historical accuracy has been in question. It was not until late in the last century that archeological excavations around the Mediterranean began to show that Homer had indeed drawn, at least in part, on real events. -
The early Roman Economy, 753-280 B.C.
Posted on July 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe archaelogical record of the city of Rome is virtually devoid of evidence of coin finds before the third century B.C. -
A Case for Corruption
Posted on June 25, 2012 | No CommentsWhile leaving aside the issue of universal administrative dishonesty and abuse, I would argue along with Pharr, Jones, and MacMullen that the conditions of the fourth and early fifth centuries, the period that this paper will cover, were quite conducive to corruption at the provincial level. -
Trends in Roman Military Transport: Military Supply Structures as Measures of Centrality and Localism
Posted on June 19, 2012 | No CommentsIn the last third of the second century CE, there were 480,000 people in the Roman army, including soldiers, sailors, and servants. -
The Roman Denarius and the Euro: A precedent for monetary union?
Posted on June 13, 2012 | No CommentsA look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes been used as an historical precedent for the European Union, and specifically the way that the integration of the Roman monetary system has been seen as a (sometimes justifying) precedent for modern European monetary union.
