Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece

Lin Foxhall explores the cultivation of the olive as an extended case study for understanding ancient Greek agriculture in its landscape economic social and political settings. Evidence from written sources archaeology and visual images is assembled to focus on what was special about the cultivation and processing of the olive in classical and archaic Greece and how and why these practices differed from Roman ones. This investigation opens up new ways ofthinking about the economies of the archaic and classical Greek world.