Description: Through an innovative analysis of a pair of unique second-century AD documents, this volume offers an updated perspective on the Roman Empire's trade with South India, drawing on recent archaeological and historical insights and using as a backdrop the longue durée history of the South Indian pepper trade from antiquity to early modernity.
Review Quotes: "In sum, this is an impressive scholarly effort that greatly enhances our under-standing of intercontinental trade in antiquity and (proto-)globalisation. It will be the standard reference on Indo-Roman trade for years to come. Moreover, due to its multidisciplinary approach it will be an indispensable work for all students of the longue durée history of the Indian Ocean trade, whether they deal with Arab, Persian, Indian or Portuguese trade of the Medieval and Early Modern periods." -- Bram Fauconnier, Literaturkritik
"The volume is a monumental work in various respects: exegetical care, the quantity and multiplicity of the sources and data collected; the breadth of the historical span ranging from the Roman period, the second century of the Muziris papyrus, and earlier and later times up to the pre-modern era. Federico De Romanis offers much more than the title promises by reconstructing a large multidisciplinary mosaic of interest to the ancient historian, the papyrologist, the ancient geographer, the scholar of ancient economies, and the Indianist." -- M. Lauretta Moioli, Università degli Studi di Milano, Bryn Mawr Classical Review