Introduction / Ian Morris
Ecology / Robert Sallares
Demography / Walter Scheidel
Household and gender / Richard P. Saller
Law and economic institutions / Bruce W. Frier and Dennis P. Kehoe
Technology / Helmuth Schneider
The Aegean Bronze Age / John Bennet
Early Iron Age Greece / Ian Morris
The Iron Age in the western Mediterranean / Michael Dietler
Archaic Greece / Robin Osborne
The Persian Near East / Peter R. Bedford
Classical Greece: Production / John K. Davies
Classical Greece: Distribution / Astrid Moller
Classical Greece: Consumption / Sitta Von Reden
The Hellenistic Near East / Robartus J. Van Der Spek
Hellenistic Egypt / Joseph G. Manning
Hellenistic Greece and western Asia Minor / Gary Reger
Early Rome and Italy / Jean-Paul Morel
The late Republic / William V. Harris
The early Roman empire: Production / Dennis P. Kehoe
The early Roman empire: Distribution / Neville Morley
The early Roman empire: Consumption / Willem M. Jongman
The early Roman empire: The state and the economy / Elio Lo Cascio
The western provinces / Philippe Leveau
The eastern Mediterranean / Susan E. Alcock
Roman Egypt / Dominic W. Rathbone
The frontier zones / David Cherry
The transition to late antiquity / Andrea Giardina.