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6 avril 2021
- handle: 10670/1.qv4590
- isbn: 9781783746934
- eisbn: 9791036563041
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Alain Bresson, « Preface », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.qv4590
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The absence of technological progress in the ancient world has long been a dogmatic belief among ancient historians, linked to the idea that the ancient economy was stagnant. It took time, and also a prolonged and vigorous debate, to explode both pronouncements. Recent research has shown that starting in the Archaic period, and culminating at the end of the Hellenistic period and at the very beginning of the Imperial period, the ancient Mediterranean world experienced a vigorous period of gro...