Money and its Uses in the Ancient Greek World

Kirsty Shipton is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester. A former scholar of Somerville College, Oxford, she holds degrees from Glasgow, Oxford, and London where she is a recent winner of the George Grote and Norman Baynes prizes in Ancient History. She has published articles on Greek and Roman literature and on Greek history, and is the author of a forthcoming study of the cash-based economy of fourth century Athens.Andrew Meadows is Curator of Ancient Greek Coins at the British Museum, and holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Michigan. He is the author of articles on Greek and Roman history, epigraphy, and numismatics. He is secretary of the British Academy's Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Committee, and the editor of two volumes in the series, as well as editor of the Royal Numismatic Society's Coin Hoards.

• 1. Archaic Coinage as Evidence for the Use of Money ; 2. Coinage and Democracy at Athens ; 3. The Politics of Coinage: Athens and Hellenistic Monarchy ; 4. Money, Freedom, and Empire in the Hellenistic World ; 5. The Coinage of Rhodes 408-c.190 BC ; 6. Temples, Credit, and the Circulation of Money ; 7. Money and the Elite in Classical Athens ; 8. The Politics of Monetization in Third-Century BC Egypt ; 9. Money Use among the Peasantry of Roman Egypt

The volume is well-produced and the articles are thoughtful, each in its way moving us forward toward a deeper understanding of one of the most profound economic revolutions the world has known.