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Eastern Wines on Western Tables: Consumption, Trade and Economy in Ancient Italy is an interdisciplinary and multifaceted study concerning wine commerce and the Roman economy during Classical antiquity. Wine was one of the main consumption goods in the Mediterranean during antiquity, and the average Roman adult male probably consumed between 0,5 - 1 litre of it per day. It is therefore clear that the production and trading of wine was essential for the Roman economy. This book demonstrates that wines from the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean region in particular, played a crucial part in wine commerce. Moreover, it sheds new light on economic dilemmas that have long puzzled scholars, such as growth and market integration during antiquity.
Price: $162.00
Pages: 378
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
Publication Date:
01 October 2020
ISBN: 9789004433700
Format: Hardcover
"Komar offers an exemplary analysis of the Eastern Mediterranean wine trade and its role in the wider economy. Debates over
the scale and organisation of the Roman economy are bedevilled by the disjunction between archaeology and history. By an exhaustive study of a wide range of archaeological, epigraphic, literary, comparative and oenological evidence for a single commodity, Komar provides an authoritative analysis and an exemplar of the potential that this has for our understanding of the social and economic functioning of the Roman world." Benedict Lowe, The Classical Review 71.2 479–482.
Paulina Komar, Ph.D. (2015), Wrocław University, is an archaeologist educated in Warsaw, Liverpool and Wrocław. She is currently an assistant professor at Warsaw's Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University. Her primary research interests concern wine consumption, trade and economics in Classical antiquity.