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Author : David Schaps
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472036400
Reveals how the concept of money did not materialize until the invention of Greek coinage
Author : David M. Schaps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:951536314
Author : Andrew Meadows,Kirsty Shipton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199240128
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 : Richard Seaford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0521539927
How 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 : W. V. Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191615177
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 : Sir George Francis Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Numismatics, Greek
ISBN : PRNC:32101072311325
Author : Frank L. Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
ISBN : 9780197517659
"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 : Ian Carradice,Martin Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015014183043
The development and use of coinage in the Greek world is surveyed in this book from its introduction in the 7th century BC to the late Hellenistic period. Coins can illuminate many facets of history and here the focus is on the reasons why they were circulated and how they were used. As a result, there is a wealth of information that has been gathered in one place for the first time. An opening chapter introduces the study of Greek coins, outlining the development of modern methods of research. This is followed by chapters discussing the invention of coinage and its spread to all parts of the Greek world. Coinage production and design and the role of coins in the life of people are then discussed, followed by chapters on the Classical period, Alexander the Great and the late Hellenistic world. As well as being a succint and readable account for students and collectors of coins, all those interested in the ancient world should find this a fresh and stimulating source of information.
Author : Ian Carradice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015035022394
Of the many traditions we have inherited from the ancient Greeks, the use of coins should rank as one of the most important. From its first appearance in the region of Lydia (western Turkey) in the late-17th century BC, coinage gradually spread throughout the Greek world, and the history of the ancient Greeks is reflected in its evolution. Designs on Greek coins include the badges of city-states, portraits of rulers, images of Greek gods, scenes from myths and objects of daily life, and are often works of art in themselves. The dies, carved by craftsmen, sometimes bear the name or initials of the mint official responsible for their issue, and the coins might have circulated in trade, been used as gifts or dedications, or hoarded as valuables.
Author : Christopher Howgego
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134877836
Like other volumes in this series, Ancient History from Coins demystifies a specialism, introducing students (from first year upwards) to the techniques, methods, problems and advantages of using coins to do ancient history. Coins are a fertile source of information for the ancient historian; yet too often historians are uneasy about using them as evidence because of the special problems attaching to their interpretation. The world of numismatics is not always easy for the non-specialist to penetrate or understand with confidence. Dr Howgego describes and anlyses the main contributions the study of coins can make to ancient history, showing shows through numerous examples how the character, patterns and behaviour of coinage bear on major historical themes. Topics range from state finance and economic policy to imperial domination and political propaganda through coins types. The period covered by the book is from the invention of coinage (ca 600BC) to AD 400.
Author : Carl Menger
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
On the Origins of Money is a discussion of the history of money and currency, from its crudest form as cowrie shells, animal pelts, and salt in early societies to the coin and paper money we use today. Rather than focusing on the type or shape of the money, author and economist Carl Menger looks at the reasons behind monetary exchange and why money is so valuable (or where it gets its inherent value). His argument centers on the "saleableness" of the goods or commodities being sold-in other words, the more "saleable" (or valuable or in demand) an item is, the more money it is worth. Hence, money gets its value from the objects it pays for. This short work is an insightful look into the history and value of money for any student or professional economist.
Author : Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780521453370
A comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds.
Author : Mirko Canevaro
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474421782
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Author : Leslie Kurke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691223322
The invention of coinage in ancient Greece provided an arena in which rival political groups struggled to imprint their views on the world. Here Leslie Kurke analyzes the ideological functions of Greek coinage as one of a number of symbolic practices that arise for the first time in the archaic period. By linking the imagery of metals and coinage to stories about oracles, prostitutes, Eastern tyrants, counterfeiting, retail trade, and games, she traces the rising egalitarian ideology of the polis, as well as the ongoing resistance of an elitist tradition to that development. The argument thus aims to contribute to a Greek "history of ideologies," to chart the ways ideological contestation works through concrete discourses and practices long before the emergence of explicit political theory. To an elitist sensibility, the use of almost pure silver stamped with the state's emblem was a suspicious alternative to the para-political order of gift exchange. It ultimately represented the undesirable encroachment of the public sphere of the egalitarian polis. Kurke re-creates a "language of metals" by analyzing the stories and practices associated with coinage in texts ranging from Herodotus and archaic poetry to Aristotle and Attic inscriptions. She shows that a wide variety of imagery and terms fall into two opposing symbolic domains: the city, representing egalitarian order, and the elite symposium, a kind of anti-city. Exploring the tensions between these domains, Kurke excavates a neglected portion of the Greek cultural "imaginary" in all its specificity and strangeness.
Author : Percy Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Coinage
ISBN : PSU:000008925046
