"The Political Economy of Archaic Greece, or, the Problem of the Agora”
David Garrett
September 14, 2005
I Polis, Oikos, and Nomoi : change and the Archaic Era
II Aristocratic and Yeoman Material Ideals Terms:
Destruction/Consumption Polis Poleis
Production Oikos Oikoi
The Excellent Life Nomos Nomoi
III The Nomos of the Oikos Agora Agorai
What’s an oikos? Therapon Therapontes
The ideal of self-sufficiency Thes Thetes
The failure of the ideal: Goods Dmos/Domos
A digression on commodification and disembedding
Land
The failure of the ideal: Labor
Slavery
Thetes
Agoraphobia: a fear of market exchange?
IV The Polis and its Nomoi
What’s a polis?
Agoraphobia: who should run the polis?
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