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ESSAYS ON SLAVERY

Third, while acknowledging O.’s explicit focus on economic history and model-building, I worry that this is a history of Greece without the Greeks. ‘Competition’, for example, is regularly invoked as a catalyst for growth, yet the implications of the Homeric and Hesiodic texts go unmentioned, the soul-consuming fire of αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν unfelt. Those celebrated ‘highcultural products’ are glimpsed occasionally from afar, as they breach the churning waves of growth, yet the character of these glories – the values, desires and beliefs cherished by their creators and embodied within temples and tragedies alike – is left unexamined. Is it these artefacts’ mere survival that distinguishes classical Greece from the seventeenth-century Minoan efflorescence? These and myriad other lines of inquiry will arise from readers’ careful engagement with this volume, thanks to the customary clarity and conviction with which O. has elaborated his model of wealthy Hellas.