Money and Its Uses in the Ancient Greek World

Zusatztext All who intend to examine Classical or Hellenistic history from the economic, social, political, or ideological perspectives, will need to read this book, whatever their level. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Meadows is Curator of Ancient Greek Coins in the British Museum.Kirsty Shipton is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester and Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London Klappentext 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. 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: Andrew Meadows, Andrew (Curator of Ancient Greek Coins At Meadows, Andrew Shipton Meadows
• Assisted by: Andrew Meadows (Editor), Meadows Andrew (Editor), Kirsty Shipton (Editor), Shipton Kirsty (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2004
• EAN: 9780199271429
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927142-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Economic history, Ancient History, Monetary Economics, Ancient history: to c 500 CE