The monetary systems of the Greeks and Romans
By: edited by W. V. Harris.
Contributors: Harris, William V.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780199233359
Subjects: Money -- Rome -- History; Money -- Greece -- History; Rome -- Economic conditions -- 30 B.C.-476 A.D; Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.C
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-321) and index.
Table of contents: title: The monetary use of weighed bullion in archaic Greece / John H. Kroll; title: What was money in ancient Greece and Rome? / David M. Schaps; title: Money and tragedy / Richard Seaford; title: The elasticity of the money-supply at Athens / Edward E. Cohen; title: Coinage as 'code' in Ptolemaic Egypt / J. G. Manning; title: The demand for money in the late Roman Republic / David B. Hollander; title: Money and prices in the early Roman Empire / David Kessler and Peter Temin; title: The function of gold coinage in the monetary economy of the Roman Empire / Elio Lo Cascio; title: The nature of Roman money / W. V. Harris; title: The use and survival of coins and of gold and silver in the Vesuvian cities / Jean Andreau; title: Money and credit in Roman Egypt / Peter van Minnen; title: The monetization of the Roman frontier provinces : a quantitative revision / Constantina Katsari; title: The divergent evolution of coinage in eastern and western Eurasia / Walter Scheidel.