The monetary systems of the Greeks and Romans / edited by W. V. Harris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, William V. (William Vernon)

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--Rome--History.

Money.

Money--Greece--History.

History.

Rome--Economic conditions--30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Economic conditions.

Greece--Economic conditions--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xiv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-321) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

9780199233359

0199233357

OCLC:

167505217