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OverviewMost 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: W. V. Harris (Shepherd Professor of History, Columbia University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.30cm Weight: 0.543kg ISBN: 9780199233359ISBN 10: 0199233357 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 14 February 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: John Kroll: The Monetary Use of Weighed Bullion in Archaic Greece 2: David M. Schaps: What Was Money in Ancient Greece and Rome? 3: Richard Seaford: Money and Tragedy 4: Edward E. Cohen: The Elasticity of the Money-Supply at Athens 5: J. G. Manning: Coinage as `Code' in Ptolemaic Egypt 6: David B. Hollander: The Demand for Money in the Late Roman Republic 7: David Kessler & Peter Temin: Money and Prices in the Early Roman Empire 8: Elio Lo Cascio: The Function of Gold Coinage in the Monetary Economy of the Roman Empire 9: W. V. Harris: The Nature of Roman Money 10: Jean Andreau: The Use and Survival of Coins and of Gold and Silver in the Vesuvian Cities 11: Constantina Katsari: The Monetization of the Roman Frontier Provinces: A Quantitative Revision 12: Walter Scheidel: The Divergent Evolution of Coinage in Eastern and Western EurasiaReviewsHarris has done an excellent job of bringing to the fore themes that cut across the contributions. Vedia Izzet and Robert Shorrock Author InformationW. V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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