Money, Labour and Land: Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece,9780415196499

Money, Labour and Land: Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415196499
ISBN10: 0415196493
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-14
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Drawing on comparative historical and anthropological approaches, sociological, economic and cultural theory, and developments in epigraphy, legal history, numismatics and spatial archaeology, this volume will be of interest to all students and scholars of ancient economies.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables
xi
List of contributors
xiii
Preface xv
Geoffrey Lloyd
Introduction
1(7)
Edward E. Cohen
Hard surfaces
8(36)
Ian Morris
Small change and the moneyed economy
44(8)
H.S. Kim
Demos' phiale and the rhetoric of money in fourth-century Athens
52(15)
Sitta von Reden
Workshop, marketplace and household: the nature of technical specialization in classical Athens and its influence on economy and society
67(33)
Edward M. Harris
An unprofitable masculinity
100(13)
Edward E. Cohen
Markets, fairs and monetary loans: cultural history and economic history in Roman Italy and Hellenistic Greece
113(17)
Jean Andreau
Merchants, prostitutes and the `new poor': forms of contract and social status
130(10)
Julie Velissaropoulos-Karakostas
Domination and exploitation
140(16)
Dimitris J. Kyrtatas
The political economy of Greek slavery
156(11)
Paul Cartledge
On Paul Cartledge, `The political economy of Greek slavery'
167(8)
Michael H. Jameson
The hireling and the slave: a transatlantic perspective
175(10)
Walter Scheidel
A simple case of exploitation? The helots of Messenia
185(15)
Susan E. Alcock
The strategies of Mr Theopompos
200(9)
John K. Davies
Access to resources in classical Greece: the egalitarianism of the polis in practice
209(12)
Lin Foxhall
Bibliography 221(34)
Index of ancient authors 255(7)
General index 262

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