Consumerism in the Ancient World: Imports and Identity Construction

by Justin St. P. Walsh

Book Overview

Greek pottery was exported around the ancient world in vast quantities over a period of several centuries. This book focuses on the Greek pottery consumed by people in the western Mediterranean and trans-Alpine Europe from 800-300 BCE, attempting to understand the distribution of vases, and particularly the reasons why people who were not Greek decided to acquire them. This new approach includes discussion of the ways in which objects take on different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367866455
• ISBN13: 9780367866457
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 10.1"