
Money, Labour and Land
Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece
- 288 pages
- English
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Money, Labour and Land
Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Hard Surfaces
- 3: Small Change and the Moneyed Economy
- 4: Demosâ PhialĂȘ and the Rhetoric of Money in Fourth-Century Athens
- 5: Workshop, Marketplace and Household
- 6: An Unprofitable Masculinity
- 7: Markets, Fairs and Monetary Loans
- 8: Merchants, Prostitutes and the âNew Poorâ
- 9: Domination and Exploitation
- 10: The Political Economy of Greek Slavery
- 11: On Paul Cartledge, âThe Political Economy of Greek Slaveryâ
- 12: The Hireling and the Slave
- 13: A Simple Case of Exploitation?
- 14: The Strategies of Mr Theopompos
- 15: Access to Resources in Classical Greece
- Bibliography