Money, Labour and Land (eBook, ePUB)

Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece
Redaktion: Cartledge, Paul; Foxhall, Lin; Cohen, Edward E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Money, Labour and Land explores a wide range of case studies in the economic history of the ancient Greek world to reveal an explosion of ideas which open new pathways into the study of the economies of ancient Greece.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134644032
• Artikelnr.: 42718559

Autorenporträt

Paul Cartledge, Edward E. Cohen, Lin Foxhall

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Preface by Geoffrey Lloyd
1 Introduction
2 Hard surfaces
3 Small change and the moneyed economy
4 Demos' phialê and the rhetoric of money in fourth-century Athens
5 Workshop
marketplace and household: the nature of technical specialization in classical Athens and its influence on economy and society
6 An unprofitable masculinity
7 Markets
fairs and monetary loans: cultural history and economic history in Roman Italy and Hellenistic Greece
8 Merchants
prostitutes and the 'new poor': forms of contract and social status
9 Domination and exploitation
10 The political economy of Greek slavery
11 On Paul Cartledge
'The political economy of Greek slavery'
12 The hireling and the slave: a transatlantic perspective
13 A simple case of exploitation? The helots of Messenia
14 The strategies of Mr Theopompos
15 Access to resources in classical Greece: the egalitarianism of the polis in practice
Bibliography
Index of ancient authors
General index