The monetary systems of the Greeks and Romans

Weitere Verfasser: Harris, William V.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Ausgabe: 1st published in paperback.
Umfang/Format: xiv, 330 p. ; 22 cm.
Online Zugang: Table of contents only
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The monetary use of weighed bullion in archaic Greece / John H. Kroll
  • What was money in ancient Greece and Rome? / David M. Schaps
  • Money and tragedy / Richard Seaford
  • The elasticity of the money-supply at Athens / Edward E. Cohen
  • Coinage as 'code' in Ptolemaic Egypt / J. G. Manning
  • The demand for money in the late Roman Republic / David B. Hollander
  • Money and prices in the early Roman Empire / David Kessler and Peter Temin
  • The function of gold coinage in the monetary economy of the Roman Empire / Elio Lo Cascio
  • The nature of Roman money / W. V. Harris
  • The use and survival of coins and of gold and silver in the Vesuvian cities / Jean Andreau
  • Money and credit in Roman Egypt / Peter van Minnen
  • The monetization of the Roman frontier provinces : a quantitative revision / Constantina Katsari
  • The divergent evolution of coinage in eastern and western Eurasia / Walter Scheidel.