Money, labour and land : approaches to the economies of ancient Greece / edited by Paul Cartledge, Edward E. Cohen and Lin Foxhall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cartledge, Paul.

Cohen, Edward E.

Foxhall, Lin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The cultural wealth of the classical Greek world was matched by its material wealth, and there is abundant textual and archaeological evidence for both. However, radically different theoretical and methodological approaches have been used to interpret this evidence, and conflicts continue to rage as these different starting points produce clashing views on the significance and distribution of money, labour and land.Money, Labour and Land reflects the current explosion in ideas and research by assembling case-studies from an international selection of renowned US, British and Euro

Contents:

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Hard surfaces; 3 Small change and the moneyed economy; 4 Demos' phialê and the rhetoric of money in fourth-century Athens; 5 Workshop, marketplace and household; 6 An unprofitable masculinity; 7 Markets, fairs and monetary loans; 8 Merchants, prostitutes and the 'new poor'; 9 Domination and exploitation; 10 The political economy of Greek slavery; 11 On Paul Cartledge, 'The political economy of Greek slavery'; 12 The hireling and the slave; 13 A simple case of exploitation?

14 The strategies of Mr Theopompos15 Access to resources in classical Greece; Bibliography; Index of ancient authors; General index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-64403-5

1-134-64404-3

1-280-11231-X

0-203-99630-5

9780203996300

OCLC:

475954790