<P> The number of shipwrecks found in the Mediterranean Sea provides valuable evidence of the development of trade in the ancient world . Only two shipwrecks were found that dated from the 8th century BC . However, archeologists have found forty - six shipwrecks dated from the 4th century BC, which would appear to indicate that there occurred a very large increase in the volume of trade between these centuries . Considering that the average ship tonnage also increased in the same period, the total volume of trade increased probably by a factor of 30 . </P> <P> Greece's main exports were olive oil, wine, pottery, and metalwork . Imports included grains and pork from Sicily, Arabia, Egypt, Carthage . </P> <P> While peasants and artisans often sold their own wares, there were also retail merchants known as kápêloi (κάπηλοι). Grouped into guilds, they sold fish, olive oil, and vegetables . Women sold perfume or ribbons . Merchants were required to pay a fee for their space in the marketplace . They were viewed poorly by the general population, and Aristotle labeled their activities as: "a kind of exchange which is justly censured, for it is unnatural, and a mode by which men gain from one another ." </P> <P> Parallel to the "professional" merchants were those who sold the surplus of their household production such as vegetables, olive oil, or bread . This was the case for many of the small - scale farmers of Attica . Among townsfolk, this task often fell to the women . for the prfect For instance, Euripides' mother sold chervil from her garden (cf . Aristophanes, The Acharnians, v. 477 - 478). </P>

Which of these describes the economy of ancient greece