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Author:   W. V. Harris (Shepherd Professor of History, Columbia University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.30cm
Weight:   0.543kg
ISBN:  

9780199233359

ISBN 10:   0199233357
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   14 February 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: John Kroll: The Monetary Use of Weighed Bullion in Archaic Greece 2: David M. Schaps: What Was Money in Ancient Greece and Rome? 3: Richard Seaford: Money and Tragedy 4: Edward E. Cohen: The Elasticity of the Money-Supply at Athens 5: J. G. Manning: Coinage as `Code' in Ptolemaic Egypt 6: David B. Hollander: The Demand for Money in the Late Roman Republic 7: David Kessler & Peter Temin: Money and Prices in the Early Roman Empire 8: Elio Lo Cascio: The Function of Gold Coinage in the Monetary Economy of the Roman Empire 9: W. V. Harris: The Nature of Roman Money 10: Jean Andreau: The Use and Survival of Coins and of Gold and Silver in the Vesuvian Cities 11: Constantina Katsari: The Monetization of the Roman Frontier Provinces: A Quantitative Revision 12: Walter Scheidel: The Divergent Evolution of Coinage in Eastern and Western Eurasia

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Harris has done an excellent job of bringing to the fore themes that cut across the contributions. Vedia Izzet and Robert Shorrock

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W. V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University.

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