Taxation and Extortion: The Bosporus and the Delian LeagueĢ.3 The Athenian Empire: Financial Benefactor or Racketeeraģ.1 Historical Background: The Rhodian-Byzantine Warģ.2 Financial Stratagems and the Bosporusģ.4 The Bosporus 'Controlled-Currency' SystemĤ.1 Local Variability and Seasonal FishingĤ.2 Fishing Techniques and Fish ProcessingĤ.3 State Involvement in the Fishing and Salting Industriesĥ. This volume will be of interest to all those interested in classical history more broadly and to Byzantinists seeking to explore the history of the city before it became Constantinople.Ģ. Drawing extensively on Dionysius of Byzantium's Anaplous Bosporou, an ancient account of the journey up the Bosporus, and on local inscriptions, what emerges is a meditation on regional particularism which reveals the pervasive influence that the waterway had on the city of Byzantium and its local communities and illustrates how the history of this region cannot be understood in isolation from its geographical context. Examining the history of the region through this lens reveals how over almost a millennium it came to shape many aspects of the lives of its inhabitants, illuminating not only the nature of economic exploitation and the attitudes of ancient imperialism, but also local industries and resources and the genesis of communities' local identities. This highly strategic waterway links the Aegean to the Black Sea, thereby conferring on the city the ability to tax maritime traffic passing between the two.īyzantium and the Bosporus is a historical study of the city of Byzantium and its society, epigraphy, culture, and economy, which seeks to establish the significance of its geographical circumstances and in particular its relationship with the Bosporus strait. Living on the shore of the lake awoke in him a love of the water that is obvious in many of his books. At the age of three his family moved to the outskirts of the city ('Farm fields, woods, and orchards then: all suburbs now'), where they lived in a cottage on the beach. Although it was just a minor Greek polis located on the northern fringes of Hellenic culture, surrounded by hostile Thracian tribes and denigrated by one ancient wit as the "armpit of Greece," Byzantium did nevertheless possess one unique advantage-control of the Bosporus strait. Author's autograph presentation inscription on dedication page. Thomas Russell was born in Toronto Ontario in 1952. Its later history is well known, yet comparatively little is known about the city before it became Constantinople, and then Istanbul. In 330 AD, the Emperor Constantine consecrated the new capital of the eastern Roman Empire on the site of the ancient city of Byzantium. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.
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