Money and Its Uses in the Ancient Greek World

Zusatztext All those who intend to examine Classical or Hellenistic history from the economic, social, political or ideological perspectives, will need to read this bookk, whatever their level. Informationen zum Autor Kirsty Shipton is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester. A former scholar of Somerville College, Oxford, she holds degrees from Glasgow, Oxford, and London where she is a recent winner of the George Grote and Norman Baynes prizes in Ancient History. She has published articles on Greek and Roman literature and on Greek history, and is the author of a forthcoming study of the cash-based economy of fourth century Athens.Andrew Meadows is Curator of Ancient Greek Coins at the British Museum, and holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Michigan. He is the author of articles on Greek and Roman history, epigraphy, and numismatics. He is secretary of the British Academy's Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Committee, and the editor of two volumes in the series, as well as editor of the Royal Numismatic Society's Coin Hoards. Zusammenfassung This collection explores coined money and its uses over a wide area of the ancient Greek world. Written by numismatists and ancient historians, the papers cover a broad period from Archaic Greece to Roman Egypt. The collection offers fresh insights into this important aspect of the ancient economy.

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• Authors: Coins, Andrew (Curator of Ancient Greek Coins At Meadows, Andrew Shipton Meadows
• Assisted by: Andrew Meadows (Editor), Andrew (Curator of Ancient Greek Coins at the British Museum) Meadows (Editor), Meadows Andrew (Editor), Kirsty Shipton (Editor), Kirsty (Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester and Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced Study Shipton (Editor), Shipton Kirsty (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2001
• EAN: 9780199240128
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924012-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Economic history, Ancient World, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology