Money And Its Uses In The Ancient Greek World

Author : Andrew Meadows,Kirsty Shipton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191553745

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Money and its Uses in the Ancient Greek World by Andrew Meadows,Kirsty Shipton Pdf

The papers in this volume reassess the role of coined money in the ancient Greek world. Using new approaches, the book makes the results of numismatic as well as historical research accessible to students and scholars of ancient history. The chapters provide a wide-ranging account of the political, social, and economic contexts within which coined money was used. In Part One the book focuses on the theme of monetization and the politics of coinage, while Part Two provides a series of case studies relating to the production and use of coined money in different areas of the Greek-speaking world, including Asia Minor, Egypt, and Rhodes as well as Greece itself. The individual chapters cover a broad chronological range from Archaic Greece to Roman Egypt. The book as a whole offers fresh insights into an important aspect of the ancient Greek economy.

Author : Andrew Meadows,Kirsty Shipton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199240128

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Money and Its Uses in the Ancient Greek World by Andrew Meadows,Kirsty Shipton Pdf

The papers in this volume re-assess the role of coined money in the ancient Greek world. Using new approaches, the book makes the results of numismatic as well as historical research accessible to students and scholars of ancient history. The chapters provide a wide-ranging account of thepolitical, social, and economic contexts within which coined money was used. In Part One the book focuses on the theme of monetization and the politics of coinage, while Part Two provides a series of case studies relating to the production and use of coined money in different areas of theGreek-speaking world, including Asia Minor, Egypt, and Rhodes as well as Greece itself. The individual chapters cover a broad chronological range from Archaic Greece to Roman Egypt. The book as a whole offers fresh insights into an important aspect of the ancient Greek economy.

Author : Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139788632

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Money in Classical Antiquity by Sitta von Reden Pdf

This 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 : W. V. Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191615177

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The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans by W. V. Harris Pdf

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 it also offers the specialist the results of original research.

Author : H. Michell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107419117

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The Economics of Ancient Greece by H. Michell Pdf

Originally published in 1940, this book provides an overview of the economy of ancient Greece, with a particular focus on the economy of Athens and its eventual empire. Michell uses literary and epigraphic evidence to detail the main types of revenue generation prevalent in mainland Greece and the Greek islands, such as mining and foreign trade, and provides an introduction discussing the impact of other factors on the Greek economy, including infanticide and Greek economic thought. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient economics and money-making in ancient Greece.

Author : David Schaps
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472036400

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The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece by David Schaps Pdf

Reveals how the concept of money did not materialize until the invention of Greek coinage

Author : Michael Lovano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216168447

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The World of Ancient Greece [2 volumes] by Michael Lovano Pdf

This book opens the world of the ancient Greeks to all readers through easily accessible entries on topics essential to understanding Greek high culture and daily life. The ancient Greeks provided the foundation for Western civilization. They made significant advances in science, mathematics, philosophy, literature, and government. While many readers might have heard of Plato and Aristotle, however, or be familiar with the classic works of Greek tragedy, most people know significantly less about daily life in the ancient Greek world. This encyclopedia opens the world of the ancient Greeks, spanning Greek history from the Bronze Age through Roman times, with an emphasis on the Classical and Hellenistic Eras. The encyclopedia provides roughly 270 easily accessible entries on topics essential to understanding everything from Greek high culture to daily life. These entries are grouped in topical sections on the arts, science and technology, politics and government, domestic life, and other subjects. Sidebars on particularly noteworthy people, places, and concepts provide related information, while primary documents allow readers to delve into the mindset and feelings of the ancient Greeks themselves. Extensive bibliographic references give curious readers direction for further research.

Author : Jeremy Armstrong,Arthur J. Pomeroy,David Rosenbloom
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350283770

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Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World by Jeremy Armstrong,Arthur J. Pomeroy,David Rosenbloom Pdf

Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World offers twelve papers analysing the processes, consequences and problems involved in the monetization of warfare and its connection to political power in antiquity. The contributions explore not only how powerful men and states used money and coinage to achieve their aims, but how these aims and methods had often already been shaped by the medium of coined money – typically with unintended consequences. These complex relationships between money, warfare and political power – both personal and collective – are explored across different cultures and socio-political systems around the ancient Mediterranean, ranging from Pharaonic Egypt to Late Antique Europe. This volume is also a tribute to the life and impact of Professor Matthew Trundle, an inspiring teacher and scholar, who was devoted to promoting the discipline of Classics in New Zealand and beyond. At the time of his death, he was writing a book on the wider importance of money in the Greek world. A central piece of this research is incorporated into this volume, completed by one of his former students, Christopher De Lisle. Additionally, Trundle had situated himself at the centre of a wide-ranging conversation on the nature of money and power in antiquity. The contributions of scholars of ancient monetization in this volume bring together many of the threads of those conversions, further advancing a field which Matthew Trundle had worked so tirelessly to promote.

Author : Elon D. Heymans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781108838580

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The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World by Elon D. Heymans Pdf

This book reconstructs the origins and spread of precious metal money in the Iron Age eastern Mediterranean (1200-600 BCE).

Author : Michael P. Theophilos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567690227

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Numismatics and Greek Lexicography by Michael P. Theophilos Pdf

Michael P. Theophilos explores the fascinating variety of numismatic contributions to Greek lexicography, pertaining to lexicographic studies of the Second Temple period in general, and the New Testament in particular. Theophilos considers previous scholarly attempts to grapple with, and incorporate, critical numismatic material into the emerging discipline of Greek lexicography - including foundational work by F. Preisigke and E. Kiessling - before outlining his own methodological approach. Theophilos' then examines the resources available for engaging with the numismatic material, and presents a series of specific case studies throughout the New Testament material. His carefully annotated images of coins draw readers in to a greater understanding of the material culture of the Greco-Roman world, and how this impacted upon the Greek language and the New Testament.

Author : Michael Leese
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9780472132768

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Making Money in Ancient Athens by Michael Leese Pdf

Explores how ancient Athenians made economic decisions

Author : Mirko Canevaro
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474421782

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Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science by Mirko Canevaro Pdf

The first full-length academic study to deal exclusively with female stardom in British cinema.

Author : Garrett Fagan,Matthew Trundle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004187344

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New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare by Garrett Fagan,Matthew Trundle Pdf

New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare explores the armies of antiquity from Assyria and Persia, to classical Greece and Rome. The studies illustrate the ways in which technology, innovation, cultural exchange, and tactical developments transformed ancient warfare by land and sea.

Author : Mark Peacock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136686115

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Introducing Money by Mark Peacock Pdf

This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the evolution of money. It is distinct from the majority of ‘economic’ approaches, for it does not see money as an outgrowth of market exchange via barter. Instead, the social, political, legal and religious origins of money are examined. The methodological and theoretical underpinning of the work is that the study of money be historically informed, and that there exists a ‘state theory of money’ that provides an alternative framework to the ‘orthodox’ view of money’s origins. The contexts for analysing the introduction of money at various historical junctures include ancient Greece, British colonial dependencies in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and local communities which introduce ‘alternative’ currencies. The book argues that, although money is not primarily an ‘economic’ phenomenon (associated with market exchange), it has profound implications (amongst others, economic implications) for societies and habits of human thought and action.

Author : G.R. Tsetskhladze
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004496743

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Ancient West & East by G.R. Tsetskhladze Pdf