This collection of new essays presents a set of debates about what money was in antiquity and how it functioned. The focus is mainly on the Greeks, who were not the original inventors of coinage but were responsible for its widespread adoption, and on the Roman Empire, which developed one of the most complex of known pre-modern economies. INDICE: 1: John Kroll: The Monetary Use of Weighed Bullion in Archaic Greece; 2: David M. Schaps: What Was Money in Ancient Greece and Rome?; 3: Richard Seaford: Money and Tragedy; 4: Edward E. Cohen: The Elasticity of the Money-Supply at Athens; 5: J. G. Manning: Coinage as 'Code' in Ptolemaic Egypt; 6:David B. Hollander: The Demand for Money in the Late Roman Republic; 7: DavidKessler & Peter Temin: Money and Prices in the Early Roman Empire; 8: Elio LoCascio: The Function of Gold Coinage in the Monetary Economy of the Roman Empire; 9: W. V. Harris: The Nature of Roman Money; 10: Jean Andreau: The Use andSurvival of Coins and of Gold and Silver in the Vesuvian Cities; 11: Constantina Katsari: The Monetization of the Roman Frontier Provinces: A Quantitative Revision; 12: Walter Scheidel: The Divergent Evolution of Coinage in Eastern and Western Eurasia
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958671-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha Publicación: 29/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés