[...]... History at the University of Cincinnati, specializes in papyrology and the social and economic history of Graeco-Roman Egypt He is the editor of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists David M Schaps is associate professor of Classical Studies at BarIlan University His most recent book is The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece (2004) Walter Scheidel is Professor of Classics... from the fourth century onwards after the introduction of the solidus But it is Katsari (Ch 12) who takes on the most diYcult aspect of this problem, the monetization of the frontier provinces Can we trust the numismatic evidence? What it seems to show, according to Katsaris rather minute analysis of the Wnds in the Balkans and in Asia Minor and Syria, is that the monetization of these parts of the. .. social and economic history, historical demography, and comparative and interdisciplinary world history He is the author of Measuring Sex, Age and Death in the Roman Empire (1996) and Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt (2001) and the co-editor of The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (forthcoming) xiv Notes on Contributors Richard Seaford is professor of Greek... thinks increased in the unstable conditions of the Late Republic Using the work of A C Pigou, he shows how this factor was related to prices, to the money supply, and to the total output of the economy We cannot, of course, give secure values to any of these factors, but Hollanders model has at least the advantage of oVering for the Wrst time a reasonably plausible explanation of why the probably quite... collections and payments, and lending at interest in terms of silver.12 Plutarch, who lists several of these laws,13 cites the First Axon of Solon as the source of the 100-drachma Wne for an archon who refused to discharge one of his duties and the Sixteenth Axon for the drachma prices of sacriWcial animals In a more explicit reference to the use of silver as a transactional medium, employed by the seventh- and. .. on the temple had proceeded very far, if construction had begun at all The tablet therefore should belong to the earlier part of the sixth century or the later part of the seventh,24 either time being suitable for the forms of the letters.25 Since the inscription thus dates before the time of Croesus, who was responsible for introducing gold and silver coinage in western Asia Minor,26 the gold and. .. (1999) Edward E Cohen is Professor of Ancient History and Classical Studies (adjunct) at the University of Pennsylvania He has been chairman of the board of several banks and bank-holding companies, and currently serves as chief executive oYcer of Atlas America, Inc., a producer and distributor of natural gas Among his books are The Athenian Nation (2000) and Athenian Economy and Society: A Banking Perspective... associate professor in the Department of Classics at Stanford University His research interests lie in the economic and legal history of Egypt as well as the history of the Egyptian state He edited The Hauswaldt Papyri: AThird Century B.C Family Dossier from Edfu (1997), and is the author of Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt (2003) Peter van Minnen, who is an associate professor of Classics and Ancient... the ancients than the purely economic.22 This dichotomy is to be rejected, for, as I hope that this book shows, we simply do not have to choose between economic analysis and understanding the mentalities of the Greeks and Romans Read the chapters in this book that make most use of modern economics: their authors are at least as attentive to the concepts and behavioural patterns of the ancients as the. .. an approximate sense Introduction 3 from their cocoons and pay attention to both economic theory and the economic history of other eras, and that is my opinion Others disagree My colleagues made use of their freedom, and the various topics they covered, some of them familiar, others much less so, may be broken down as follows (I do not, be it noted, describe their conclusions except in a most telegraphic .