Campus Units
History
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
Spring 2009
Journal or Book Title
Agricultural History
Volume
83
Issue
2
First Page
280
Last Page
281
Abstract
Lin Foxhall is among the foremost authorities on ancient agriculture and, with Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece, she continues her practice of making important contributions to that field and also to ancient economic history. Foxhall insists on examining the ecological and cultural context in which agriculture takes place, so her study is not narrowly focused on olive cultivation but looks at olive and olive oil were produced. Foxhall provides background information about the olive tree and also lays out the parameters of her study. She is concerned with "the place of the olive in the agricultural regimes and economies of Classical, and to the much lesser extent, Archaic Greece, between the sixth and third centuries BCE" (1).
Copyright Owner
Agricultural History Society
Copyright Date
2009
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Hollander, David B., "Book Review: Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece. By Lin Foxhall" (2009). History Publications. 108.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/history_pubs/108
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Comments
This book review is published as Hollander, D.B., Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece. By Lin Foxhall., Agricultural History. 2009 83(2); 280-281. Posted with permission.