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The Emporion The Emporion
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The City’s Supervision of Foreign Trade The City’s Supervision of Foreign Trade
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The Deigma The Deigma
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The Rules of the Emporion The Rules of the Emporion
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Commercial Courts Commercial Courts
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The City-States’ Principles of Justice The City-States’ Principles of Justice
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Trials Concerning Large-Scale Trade Trials Concerning Large-Scale Trade
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Supplying the Market and Prices Supplying the Market and Prices
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The Policy of Price Control The Policy of Price Control
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Grain Purchase Funds and the Regulation of Sales Grain Purchase Funds and the Regulation of Sales
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XII The Emporion and the Markets
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Published:December 2018
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This chapter examines how the emporion served as an important tool for Greek city-states to regulate the markets. It first provides an overview of the emporion, defined as a “trading port” or “the port area,” and thus also the “business area,” along with its constraints and advantages. It then considers how foreign trade was supervised in cities and goes on to describe the function of the deigma, the place where business was transacted. It also discusses the rules of the emporion and the role of commercial courts in handling legal matters relating to international trade, citing trials concerning large-scale trade. In particular, it looks at “commercial suits,” which gives anyone the opportunity to obtain quick and impartial justice in the Athenian courts. Finally, it analyzes the ways in which the city intervened directly in the negotiation of prices in the emporion as part of a policy of supplying the domestic market, with particular emphasis on the regulation of grain sales in the form of purchase funds and price controls.
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