Land And Labor In The Greek World (ancient Society And History)

What Value Did The Greeks Put On Farming Beyond Its Capacity To Produce Food? Who Owned The Land, And Who Worked It? Alison Burford Examines The Greeks' Preoccupation With Land And Agriculture To Understand The Nature Of Their Society And Culture In General. She Focuses On How The Need To Make The Land Productive Influenced Social, Economic, And Cultural Beliefs And Practices Throughout Greek Society. Specific Areas Of Study Include Land Allotment In The Early Settlements, The Function Of The Antidosis, Xenophon's True Intent In His Oeconomicus, The Understanding And Use Of The Term Peasant, Environmental Concerns, And Nationalist Feelings Among Tied Laborers. Whatever The Balance Of Power And Social Prestige Within A Comunity, And However They Were Expressed In Its Constitution, Landed Interests Played A Critical Role In Determining Political Relationships And Economic Activities. The Answer Found To The Question 'who Labored On The Land?' Shaped As Decisively As Anything Else The Character Of Greek Society....there Can Be Little Doubt That Whenever A Steady Breeze Got Up About Threshing Time, Most People In The Greek World Would Have Remarked, 'here Was A Fine Day For Winnowing.' — From Land And Labor In The Greek World. greece & Rome a Full And Convincing Consideration Of Land Ownership, Landowners, Farming Procedures, Land Management, Agricultural Workers, And The Farmer In Society From The Dark Age To The Third Century B.c. What Value Did The Greeks Put On Farming Beyond Its Capacity To Produce Food? Who Owned The Land, And Who Worked It? What Kinds Of Crops Were Cultivated, What Kinds Of Livestock Were Raised, And For What Purposes? In Land And Labor In The Greek World Alison Burford Examines The Greeks' Preoccupation With Land And Agriculture To Understand The Nature Of Their Society And Culture In General. Although Agricultural Methods Are An Important Part Of Her Study, Burford Focuses On The Attitudes Of Landowners To The Land And Their Relationships With Laborers. She Shows How The Need To Make The Land Productive Influenced Social, Economic, And Cultural Beliefs And Practices Throughout Greek Society. Specific Areas Of Study Include Land Allotment In The Early Settlements, The Function Of The Antidosis, Xenophon's True Intent In His Oeconomicus, The Understanding And Use Of The Term Peasant, Environmental Concerns, And Nationalist Feelings Among Tied Laborers. Ownership Of The Land -- Landowners In Society -- Farming The Land -- Management Of The Land -- The Laborers On The Land -- The Farmers And The Rest Of Society -- A Lease For The Land Belonging To The Deme Of Aixone In South Attica Alison Burford. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 269-277) And Index. Once the cultivation of cereals and the domestication of animals had begun, two basic principles gradually became obvious: first, that in agriculture lay the foundations of a civilized society, making possible not only society's survival but also the devotion of time and energy to other things besides gathering food; and, second, that to have the land worked by someone else was the beginning of a civilized life. Examines the Greeks' preoccupation with land and agriculture in order to understand the nature of their society and culture in general. Burford demonstrates how the need to make the land productive influenced social, economic and cultural beliefs and practices throughout Greek society.