TY - JOUR
TI - Aegean Enigma: The Rise and Fall of Vineyards during Antiquity
AU - Komar, Paulina
TI - Aegean Enigma: The Rise and Fall of Vineyards during Antiquity
AB - 
This paper argues that the rise and fall of north and central Aegean wine exportations was caused by economic factors, such as changes in wine supply. It demonstrates that these wines disappeared from southern Gaul and central Tyrrhenian Italy when these areas started to locally produce their own wine. At the same time, north and central Aegean wines were also ousted from the Black Sea region by both local products and cheaper imports from the southern Aegean. This shows that supply and demand governed commercial activities during the Classical and Hellenistic periods, which provides new evidence regarding the nature of the ancient Greek economy.

VL - 2020
IS - Volume 27
PY - 2020
SN - 1897-3426
C1 - 2084-3909
SP - 33
EP - 43
DO - 10.4467/20800909EL.20.002.12792
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/electrum/article/aegean-enigma-the-rise-and-fall-of-vineyards-during-antiquity
KW - wine
KW - trade
KW - Aegean
KW - economy
KW - antiquity