The monetary systems of the Greeks and Romans [[electronic resource] /] / edited by W. V. Harris

• Record Nr.: UNISA996204970903316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0-19-161517-X; 0-19-958671-3; 1-281-15052-5; 9786611150525; 0-19-152846-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HarrisWilliam Vernon
• Disciplina: 332.4/937
• Soggetti: Money - Rome - History; Money - Greece - History; Rome Economic conditions 30 B.C.-476 A.D; Greece Economic conditions To 146 B.C
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-321) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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