Money, Labour and Land in Ancient Greece
Subtitle: Approaches to the Economics of Ancient Greece (Routledge Classical Monographs)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 14, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415196499
First sentence: Discussion of ancient economic history is often accompanied by admonitions seemingly more appropriate to the packaging of tobacco products: 'Ancient economics has become a treacherous field' (Schaps 1998b: 1) that 'can sometimes leave you with a sleepless night' (Isager and Skydsgaard 1992: 121), or with 'the virtual impossibility of drawing up a reasoned and equilibrated balance-sheet' (Andreau et al. 1994:10).