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Author: Sitta von Reden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-11-18
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0521453372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds.
Author: Sitta von Reden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-11-18
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1139788639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book was the first to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy in antiquity and demonstrates that the crucial factors in its increasing influence were state-formation, expanding political networks, metal supply and above all an increasing sophistication of credit and contractual law. Covering a wide range of monetary contexts within the Mediterranean over almost a thousand years (c.600 BC–AD 300), it demonstrates that money played different roles in different social and political circumstances. The book will prove an invaluable introduction to upper-level students of ancient money, while also offering perspectives for future research to the specialist.
Author: Moses I. Finley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780520024366
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Ancient Economy holds pride of place among the handful of genuinely influential works of ancient history. This is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur. It should be required reading for every student of pre-modern modes of production, exchange, and consumption."--Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens
Author: Peter Garnsey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521892902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of classical antiquity, are here brought conveniently together. Three overlapping parts deal with the urban economy and society, peasants and the rural economy, and food-supply and food-crisis. While focusing on eleven centuries of antiquity from archaic Greece to late imperial Rome, the essays include theoretical and comparative analyses of food-crisis and pastoralism, and an interdisciplinary study of the health status of the people of Rome using physical anthropology and nutritional science. A variety of subjects are treated, from the misconduct of a builders' association in late antique Sardis, to a survey of the cultural associations and physiological effects of the broad bean.
Author: Lisa Kallet
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0520229843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book greatly enhances our literary and historical appreciation of one of the most justly famous pieces of narrative writing from all classical antiquity, Thucydides' long and moving account of the Sicilian disaster of 415-413 BCE, and its (primarily Athenian) aftermath.
Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-03-11
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780521539920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. By transforming social relations monetisation contributed to the ideas of the universe as an impersonal system, fundamental to Presocratic philosophy, and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods, as found in tragedy.
Author: Daniel Hoyer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-02-27
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9004358285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roman Empire has long held pride of place in the collective memory of scholars, politicians, and the general public in the western world. In Money, Culture, and Well-Being in Rome's Economic Development, 0-275 CE, Daniel Hoyer offers a new approach to explain Rome's remarkable development. Hoyer surveys a broad selection of material to see how this diverse body of evidence can be reconciled to produce a single, coherent picture of the Roman economy. Engaging with social scientific and economic theory, Hoyer highlights key issues in economic history, placing the Roman Empire in its rightful place as a special—but not wholly unique—example of a successful preindustrial state.
Author: Frank L. Holt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 019751765X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Money may seem hopelessly mundane and culturally meaningless, but it has dominated--and documented--world history since the time of the ancient Greeks. This heavily illustrated book provides a spirited account of the first coinages and their living descendants in our pockets and purses. It explains how people from Jesus to The Beatles have used numismatics to explore the social, political, economic, and religious history of the world"--
Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-11-22
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 1316772071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrings together a wide range of papers written with a single vision. Greek tragedy, the New Testament, representations of the inner self, Greek and Indian philosophy, Wagner: these seemingly disparate phenomena are analysed with special attention to the shaping influence of ritual and of money.
Author: David Schaps
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2015-09-02
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0472036408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society and brought with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and new elites. In a book that will encourage scholarly discussion for some time, David M. Schaps addresses a range of important coinage topics, among them money, exchange, and economic organization in the Near East and in Greece before the introduction of coinage; the invention of coinage and the reasons for its adoption; and the developing use of money to make more money.
