Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150 by Alexander Olson

Author:Alexander Olson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030599362
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

2For the importance of the olive and its oil in the Eastern Mediterranean during Late Antiquity, see Michael Decker, Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009); Jairus Banaji, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). For the centrality of olive oil in the ancient Roman economy, particularly from Spain and North Africa, see David Mattingly, “First fruit? The olive in the Roman world,” in Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity, eds. Graham Shipley and John Salmon (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), 215–253; Robert Bruce Hitchner, “Olive Production and the Roman Economy: the Case for Intensive Growth in the Roman Empire,” in The Ancient Economy, ed. Walter Scheidel and Sitta Von Reden (New York: Routledge, 2002), 71–83. David Mattingly has published extensively on the topic, and readers who want to know more about ancient olive oil presses should refer to David Mattingly, “Maximum Figures and Maximizing Strategies of Oil Production? Further Thoughts on the Processing Capacity of Roman Olive Presses,” in La Production du vin et de l’huile en Mediterranée, eds. M.-C. Amouretti and J.-P. Brun (Athens: École française d’Athènes, 1993), 483–498. For oleiculture in ancient Athens (and an excellent extended treatment of oleiculture in general) see Lin Foxhall, Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

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