The cultural wealth of the classical Greek world was matched by its material wealth, and there is abundant textual and archaeological evidence for both. However, radically different theoretical and methodological approaches have been used to interpret this evidence, and conflicts continue to rage as these different starting points produce clashing views on the significance and distribution of money, labour and land.Money, Labour and Land reflects the current explosion in ideas and research by assembling case-studies from an international selection of renowned US, British and European scholars. 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.
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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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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
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'This is a thought-provoking collection of papers. It is to be highly recommended.' - Anglo Hellenic Review

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415196499
Publisert
2001-11-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
635 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

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Paul Cartledge, Edward E. Cohen, Lin Foxhall