Wages, welfare costs, and inflation in classical Athens
By: William T. Loomis.
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Wages -- Greece -- Athens -- History.; Cost and standard of living -- Greece -- Athens -- History.; Inflation (Finance) -- Greece -- Athens -- History.; Public welfare -- Greece -- Athens -- History.
Description: Wages, Welfare Costs and Inflation in Classical Athens is an invaluable and comprehensive study of Athenian economics. It examines all surviving Athenian wages, salaries, welfare payments and other labor costs to determine what people really were paid for various kinds of work and allowances.

Loomis provides a long-awaited critical study that takes account of the greatly expanded evidence, including Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians, more than a dozen other papyrus texts and hundreds of inscriptions. He also takes account of the uneven quality of these sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-347) and indexes.
"This book is a revised and augmented version of a 1993 Harvard Ph.D. thesis in Classical Philology"--P. [vii].