Description
This book views the Aegean as part of a greater trade network, that includes commodities as well as more recently discovered objects, which accumulated added value as they fi rst built up a distinguished pedigree of ownership in the Near East and Syro-Palestine. It was the natural extension of trade between the Near East and India. In the Early to Late Bronze Ages, India was an important resource for valuable and indispensable commodities destined for the elites and developing technologies of much of the Old World.
Finally, the period after the end of the Bronze Age to the time of Alexander the Great is examined and particularly after the sixth century, when Greeks were beginning to know about India. Within 200 years, India would be known to scholar and non-scholar alike, including those who witnessed the Persian invasions of Greece or who later became Macedonian and Greek foot soldiers marching east.
About the Author
Professor Robert Arnott is an archaeologist, palaeoepidemiologist and medical historian, He is a Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford and former Professor of the History and Archaeology of Medicine in the University of Birmingham.
Book Information
ISBN 9781789255546
Author Robert Arnott
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Oxbow Books
Publisher Oxbow Books