Miko Flohr and Andrew Wilson: Introduction: Investigating an Urban
Economy
Part I: City and Hinterland
1: Girolamo Ferdinando de Simone: The Agricultural Economy of
Pompeii: Surplus and Dependence
2: Miko Flohr: Quantifying Pompeii: Population, Inequality, and the
Urban Economy
Part II: Quality of Life
3: Nick M. Ray: Consumer Behaviour in Pompeii: Theory and
Evidence
4: Erica Rowan: Sewers, Archaeobotany, and Diet at Pompeii and
Herculaneum
5: Estelle Lazer: Skeletal Remains and the Health of the Population
at Pompeii
Part III: Economic Life and its Contexts
6: Eric Poehler: Measuring the Movement Economy: A Network Analysis
of Pompeii
7: Nicolas Monteix: Urban Production and the Pompeian Economy
8: Damian Robinson: Wealthy Entrepreneurs and the Urban Economy:
Insula VI 1 in its Wider Economic Contexts
9: Domenico Esposito: The Economics of Pompeian Painting
Part IV: Money and Trade
10: Steven J. R. Ellis: Reevaluating Pompeii's Coin -Finds:
Monetary Transactions and Urban Rubbish in the Retail Economy of an
Ancient City
11: Richard Hobbs: Bes, Butting Bulls, and Bars: The Life of
Coinage at Pompeii
12: Koenraad Verboven: Currency and Credit in the Bay of Naples in
the First Century ad
13: Wim Broekaert: Conflicts, Contract Enforcement, and Business
Communities in the Archive of the Sulpicii
Part V: Discussion
14: Willem Jongman: Pompeii Revisited
Miko Flohr is postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute
for History of Leiden University, and formerly assistant director
of the Oxford Roman Economy Project. His main research focus lies
with urban history in the Roman world, with a particular emphasis
on economic issues in Roman Italy, and on textile economies. His
first monograph, The World of the Fullo, was published with OUP in
2013; since, he has published on the textile economy of
Pompeii, and on public investment in commercial space.
Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire
at All Souls College, University of Oxford. His research interests
include the economy of the Roman empire, ancient technology,
ancient water supply and usage, Roman North Africa, and
archaeological field survey. Recent publications include:
Quantifying the Roman Economy: Methods and Problems (ed. with Alan
Bowman, Oxford, 2009), Settlement, Urbanization and Population (ed.
with Alan Bowman, Oxford, 2011);
The Roman Agricultural Economy: Organization, Investment, and
Production (ed. with Alan Bowman, Oxford, 2013); Alexandria and the
North-Western Delta (ed. with Damian Robinson, Oxford, 2010) and
Maritime Archaeology and
Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean (ed. with Damian Robinson,
Oxford 2011).
In a short review of thirteen papers it is not possible to do
justice to the many areas explored. Suffice to say a reader would
go away with a good idea of current views of Pompeii's economy.
They would also have a better understanding of the need to see
different aspects of the economy, normally considered in isolation,
as a network of practice in the same conceptual landscape.
Certainly there are ideas here that could usefully be applied to
other sites and the book should help bring Pompeii back into the
mainstream of thought on the Roman economy.
*H. E. M. Cool, Journal of Roman Studies *
It is a valuable resource for students and scholars already
familiar with the site. ... In the end, the volume makes a coherent
argument for Pompeii's particular role within the economic and
geographical development of Roman Italy at the level of city,
region, and supra-regional scales and is a welcome addition to the
growing number of scholarly analyses of Pompeii.
*Jeffrey D. Veitch, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
The quality of these papers is very high, and the standard is
maintained in this latest fascinating 14-paper volume.
*Peter Jones, Classics for All*
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