DSBcB019 Trade in Antiquity

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tomáš Štěpánek (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jarmila Bednaříková, CSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 15:50–17:25 U32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course is focused on the formation of trade in antiquity, the creation of conditions for cash trade and production of first coins. It also deals with the then trade routes and their use by the end of antiquity
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction and basic literature
  • 2. Origin of trade - Neolithic, Sumer, Egypt
  • 3. Trade in Bronze Age - Mioans, Hittites, Myceneans
  • 4. From Sea peoples to first coins
  • 5. Phoenician and Greek colonization
  • 6. Italy and barbarian world to turn AD I
  • 7. Italy and barbarian world to turn AD II
  • 8. Trade routes that connected Mediterranean region to the outside world
  • 9. Trade between antiquity and the Middle Ages
Literature
  • Elisseeff, Vadime (2000). The Silk Roads: Highways of Culture and Commerce. Berghahn Books. ISBN 1-57181-221-0.
  • Burns, Thomas Samuel (2003). Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.-A.D. 400. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7306-1.
  • History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce
  • Hendin, D. (2007). Ancient Scale Weights and Pre-Coinage Currency of the Near East, Amphora Books, NY. ISBN 978-0-9654029-4-1.
  • Toutain, Jules (1979). The Economic Life of the Ancient World. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 0-405-11578-4.
  • P D Curtin - Cross-Cultural Trade in World History Cambridge University Press, 25 May 1984 ISBN 0521269318
  • L S Etheredge, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, The Rosen Publishing Group, 15 Jan 2011, ISBN 1615303294
  • Silver, Morris (1983). Prophets and Markets: The Political Economy of Ancient Israel. Springer. ISBN 0-89838-112-6
  • Lindsay, W S (2006). History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce. Adamant Media Corporation. ISBN 0-543-94253-8.
  • The Oxford handbook of Greek and Roman coinage. Edited by William E. Metcalf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, xviii, 688. ISBN 9780199372188. info
  • ZIMÁK, Alexandr. Mezi třemi světadíly : obchod a lidé na vlnách Středozemního, Černého a Rudého moře. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2008, 253 s. ISBN 9788072773770. info
  • Coinage and identity in the Roman Provinces. Edited by C. J. Howgego - Volker Heuchert - Andrew Burnett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, xv, 228, [. ISBN 9780199237845. info
  • BERTMAN, Stephen. Handbook to life in ancient Mesopotamia. New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, 2003, xii, 396. ISBN 0816043469. info
Teaching methods
lectures (twoo hours per week), practical exercises
Assessment methods
activity in lessons, written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2016, Spring 2017.
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