The Ancient Economy

Introducing students to current controversies over the nature of the ancient economy, this volume brings together twelve influential studies by leading experts in the field.

About the author

Walter Scheidel currently teaches ancient history at the University of Chicago. Formerly Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, and a visiting professor at Stanford University, he has published widely on ancient social and economic history, including Measuring sex, age and death in the Roman empire: explorations in ancient demography (1996) and Death on the Nile: disease and the demography of Roman Egypt (in press). Sitta von Reden is a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol.

Product details

• Authors: Sitta Von Reden, Walter Scheidel
• Assisted by: Sitta Von Reden (Editor), Walter Scheidel (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2002
• EAN: 9780748613229
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-1322-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 585 g
• Series: Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World; Edinburgh Readings on the Anci
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics