ABSTRACT
From a technical point of view agriculture seems to have been rather primitive. The different tools are simple and often made locally by the farmer himself. Only the technologies for making olive-oil and wine seem to show some progress. This does not mean that one cannot produce a considerable surplus provided one has the labour force necessary, be it chattelslaves or helots or other types of semi-free populations. In this respect also the Greek city-states show a great many variations, as far as they are known to us.
