Money in Classical Antiquity

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman World, using new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy and which factors need to be considered in order to improve our understanding of ancient money. Covering a wide range of monetary contexts within the Mediterranean over almost 1000 years (c. 600 BC - AD 300) its method is comparative and specific in order to demonstrate that money plays different roles under different social and political circumstances. In line with the aim of the Key Themes Series, the book not only offers guidance to students and course directors for studying money at University level, but also some perspectives for future research to graduate students and specialists.

Sitta von Reden is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Freiburg/Germany. She is the author of Exchange in Ancient Greece (1995) and Money in Ptolemaic Egypt (2007), and co-editor, with Paul Cartledge and Paul Millet, of Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens (1998).