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Ancient Greek Letter Writing: A Cultural History (600 BC – 150 BC). In Ancient history matters: studies presented to Jens Erik Skydsgaard, pp. Estate Managers in Ancient Greek Agriculture. Sui modi di organizzazione e gli attori del commercio e sulla «giustizia private» in poleis e emporia. Tre lettere di mercanti del Mar Nero settentrionale rivisitate. Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Sulân: représailles et justice privée contre les étrangers dans les cités grecques (Étude du vocabulaire et des institutions). Starozhytnosti Stepovoho Prychornomoria i Krymu, XV, 227-243. Khora kolonialnogo polisa v Nizhnem Pobuzhie: ot arkhaiki k ellinizmu. Oikos grecheskoi khory v Nizhnem Pobuzhie VI-V vv. Probably, the representatives of the social elites actively used the work of slaves and freedmen in their economic activities: both in agricultural production and trade.īuiskikh, S.B. The export of slaves from the Lower Buh region to external markets (Bosporus) is also recorded. Epigraphic finds not only corroborate the presence of purchased slaves in Olbia in the late archaic period but also demonstrate the involvement of slave labor in various spheres of life: trade, work to the needs of temples, agricultural production. At the same time, archeological and epigraphic data make it possible to raise the issue of the existence of sizeable landowning in Olbia polis, at least during the flourishing of its agricultural area.Ī certain aspect of Olbian social history is the spread of slavery. Private letters contain information about the involvement of the aristocracy in trade activities. The second issue is the problem of the economic basis on which the Olbian aristocracy built its social influence. The latter are mentioned in several epigraphic documents, and a variety of contexts (sale, loan, etc.). Private letters of the late 6 th – early 5 th century BCE (Letters of Achillodorus, Apaturius, Artikon, the ‘Priest from Hylaia’) show a clear picture of sharp social contrasts in Olbia society, where at one end of the social ladder were rich aristocrats, and at the other – the poor, who did not even have their own dwelling, and slaves.
The first of these aspects is the problem of significant social differentiation in Olbia, which could be seen almost from the very beginning of its history. This makes it possible to study some aspects of Olbia social history that were previously overlooked by the researchers. It has significantly enriched our knowledge of various aspects of Olbia polis history, especially its social and economic components. In recent decades, a significant amount of information from various types of sources, mainly epigraphic (private letters) and archaeological, has been brought into scientific circulation. The paper is devoted to a number of issues of the social structure of Olbia polis from the Archaic period to Hellenism.