Subject: Classics Book Title: The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans
The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans
Harris, W. V. (Editor),
Shepherd Professor of History, Columbia University
Print publication date: 2008
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923335-9 doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233359.001.0001 |
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Abstract:
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 book 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.
Keywords: Greek coins, Roman coins, money, Greek tragedy, economic systems, currency Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
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The Monetary Use of Weighed Bullion in Archaic Greece
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What Was Money in Ancient Greece?
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Money and Tragedy
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Elasticity of the Money Supply at Athens
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Coinage as ‘Code’ in Ptolemaic Egypt
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The Demand for Money in the Late Roman Republic
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Money and Prices in the Early Roman Empire
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The Function of Gold Coinage in the Monetary Economy of the Roman Empire
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The Nature of Roman Money
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The Use and Survival of Coins and of Gold and Silver in the Vesuvian Cities
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Money and Credit in Roman Egypt
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The Monetization of Rome's Frontier Provinces
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The Divergent Evolution of Coinage in Eastern and Western Eurasia
Bibliography
Index
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