The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

AvW. V. Harris,Columbia University) Harris, W. V. (Shepherd Professor of History

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Most people have some idea what Greeks and Romans coins looked like, but few know how complex Greek and Roman monetary systems eventually became. The contributors to this volume are numismatists, ancient historians, and economists intent on investigating how these systems worked and how they both did and did not resemble a modern monetary system. Why did people first start using coins? How did Greeks and Romans make payments, large or small? What does money mean in Greek tragedy? Was the Roman Empire an integrated economic system? This volume can serve as an introduction to such questions, but it also offers the specialist the results of original research.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-02-14
Mått144 x 213 x 24 mm
Vikt543 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor344
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199233359

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1. The Monetary Use of Weighed Bullion in Archaic Greece ; 2. What Was Money in Ancient Greece and Rome? ; 3. Money and Tragedy ; 4. The Elasticity of the Money-Supply at Athens ; 5. Coinage as 'Code' in Ptolemaic Egypt ; 6. The Demand for Money in the Late Roman Republic ; 7. Money and Prices in the Early Roman Empire ; 8. The Function of Gold Coinage in the Monetary Economy of the Roman Empire ; 9. The Nature of Roman Money ; 10. The Use and Survival of Coins and of Gold and Silver in the Vesuvian Cities ; 11. The Monetization of the Roman Frontier Provinces: A Quantitative Revision ; 12. The Divergent Evolution of Coinage in Eastern and Western Eurasia