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All.USON
Bl!IRIFORD
Land
and
Labor
in the
Greek World
The johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore and London
This book has been brought to production
with
the generous assistance
of the David M. Robinson Fund.
1993 The Johns Hopkins University Press
All rights ·r:eserved
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
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The Johns Hopkins University Press
701West40th Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21211-2190
The Johns Hopkins Press Ltd., London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burford, Alison.
Land and labor in the Greek world
I
Alison Burford.
p. cm.-(Ancient society and history)
Includes bibliographical
refe~ences
and index.
ISBN 0-8018-4463-0 (acid-free paper)
1.
Land tenure-Greece-History. 2. Landowners-Greece-History.
3. Agriculture-Greece-History. 4. Agricultural laborers-Greece-
History.
I.
Title. II. Series.
HD133.B87 1993
333.3'0938-dc20
92-19191
A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library
Contents
Preface
Introduction
ix
1
One
Ownership of the Land
Two
Landowners in Society
Three
Farming the Land
Four
Management of the Land
Five
The Laborers on the Land
15
56
100
167
182
Six
The Farmers and the Rest of Society
223
vii
Contents
Appendix: A Lease for Land Belonging
to
the Deme
of Aixone in South Attica, 345/4
231
Notes
Bibliography
Index
279
233
269
viii
Preface
The intention of this study has been to consider ancient Greek
society in the context of land tenure and agriculture, and the re-
lationships within it which were determined by landed interests
in the first instance. Like Hesiod's
Works and Days,
it has never
been meant to stand as a complete reference work on all legal and
technical aspects of owning and cultivating the land; it does not
begin to take full account of the economic factors at work, beyond
suggesting ways in which they may have affected policies and at-
titudes of mind. Nor does it pretend to any arithmetical or statis-
tical precision in the matter of population, acreages planted, de-
mand, yields, man-hours expended, or productivity achieved,
except in a very small way; for, as valuable as such computations
can be, there is also something to be said for the argument that,
so fragile and fragmentary is the evidence, so vast are the un-
known entities, to focus too closely on exact figures is to go be-
yond the limits both of what is possible and of what is useful, and
to blur rather than enhance the outlines of the subject under
scrutiny.
I owe much to the numerous publications that, especially dur-
ing the last few years, have contributed to the debate on these
subjects. The extent of my indebtedness I have attempted to in-
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