Money in Classical Antiquity

Author: Sitta von Reden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521453372
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
A comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds.

Money in Classical Antiquity

Author: Sitta von Reden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139788639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
This book was the first to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy in antiquity and demonstrates that the crucial factors in its increasing influence were state-formation, expanding political networks, metal supply and above all an increasing sophistication of credit and contractual law. Covering a wide range of monetary contexts within the Mediterranean over almost a thousand years (c.600 BC–AD 300), it demonstrates that money played different roles in different social and political circumstances. The book will prove an invaluable introduction to upper-level students of ancient money, while also offering perspectives for future research to the specialist.

The Ancient Economy

Author: Moses I. Finley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520024366
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
"The Ancient Economy holds pride of place among the handful of genuinely influential works of ancient history. This is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur. It should be required reading for every student of pre-modern modes of production, exchange, and consumption."--Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens

Money and the Early Greek Mind

Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521539920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. By transforming social relations monetisation contributed to the ideas of the universe as an impersonal system, fundamental to Presocratic philosophy, and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods, as found in tragedy.

Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity

Author: Peter Garnsey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521892902
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of classical antiquity, are here brought conveniently together. Three overlapping parts deal with the urban economy and society, peasants and the rural economy, and food-supply and food-crisis. While focusing on eleven centuries of antiquity from archaic Greece to late imperial Rome, the essays include theoretical and comparative analyses of food-crisis and pastoralism, and an interdisciplinary study of the health status of the people of Rome using physical anthropology and nutritional science. A variety of subjects are treated, from the misconduct of a builders' association in late antique Sardis, to a survey of the cultural associations and physiological effects of the broad bean.

The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece

Author: David Schaps
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472036408
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society and brought with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and new elites. In a book that will encourage scholarly discussion for some time, David M. Schaps addresses a range of important coinage topics, among them money, exchange, and economic organization in the Near East and in Greece before the introduction of coinage; the invention of coinage and the reasons for its adoption; and the developing use of money to make more money.

Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece

Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316772071
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 499

Book Description
Brings together a wide range of papers written with a single vision. Greek tragedy, the New Testament, representations of the inner self, Greek and Indian philosophy, Wagner: these seemingly disparate phenomena are analysed with special attention to the shaping influence of ritual and of money.

Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides

Author: Lisa Kallet
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520229843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
This book greatly enhances our literary and historical appreciation of one of the most justly famous pieces of narrative writing from all classical antiquity, Thucydides' long and moving account of the Sicilian disaster of 415-413 BCE, and its (primarily Athenian) aftermath.

The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

Author: Walter Scheidel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521780535
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 17

Book Description
In this, the first comprehensive survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. They reflect a new interest in economic growth in antiquity and develop new methods for measuring economic development, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately.

Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens

Author: Paul Millett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521893916
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
This is a book about the social and economic history of ancient Greece and has as its core a detailed study of credit relations in Athens during the fourth century BC. It looks at ancient economy and society in their own terms and demonstrates that the very different system of credit in Athens had its own complexity and sophistication.