The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome

"Ranging over the entire Mediterranean from the Iron Age to the dawn of the Roman Empire, Manning draws on new evidence to rethink ancient history." —Philip T. Hoffman, author of Why Did Europe Conquer the World?

In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social...