ABSTRACT
THE TRAJECTORY OF GREEK THOUGHT About five thousand years ago, the Mediterranean region became the cradle of a number of civilizations. Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria and Persia figure in the history books as creative incubators of our cultural heritage. Their palace and temple complexes were of an unparalleled grandeur and arouse our awe even today. Their civilizations had relatively developed economies, with surplus production efficiently mobilized and redistributed for the administrarive and religious establishment. Their scribal schools produced a great number of manuals with detailed instructions for the running of the complex system. But, in their compact world-view there was no space for the emergence of an autonomous body of political thought and still less for one of economic thought.
