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Money, labour and land : approaches to the economies of ancient Greece

Lin Foxhall (Editor), Paul Cartledge (Editor), Edward E. Cohen (Editor)
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.
Print Book, English, 2002
Routledge, London, 2002
Aufsatzsammlung
266 s
9780415196499, 0415196493
185771794
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