Corinthian Trade with the Punic West in the Classical Period

Abstract

tages combined with Corinthian ingenuity enabled the city-state to develop a diverse economy eclipsed only by Athens in the Classical period. The Corinthian economy benefited from trade, particularly with the West. Literary sources provide few details concerning the nature and extent of Corinth's commercial relations, however, and scholars have thus relied on archaeological evidence to document the geographic and chronological extent of this trade. For the Archaic period the export of Corinthian painted pottery has long been documented by the presence of Corinthian finewares throughout the Mediterranean, particularly in Sicily and southern Italy. The rapid decline of this trade in the 6th century and the ascendancy of Attic black figure in Western markets was once regarded as evidence for commercial competition, and even for resultant political hostilities, between Corinth and Athens.2 Such a literal interpretation of the evidence of this pottery has been shown to be unsound, not least because the exclusive dependence on finewares seemed to render the archaeological record mute regarding Corinthian

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