Armstrong, Jeremy
(ed.)
Pomeroy, Arthur J.
(ed.)
Rosenbloom, Davis
(ed.)
Editorial: Bloomsbury
Número de páginas: 304 págs.
Fecha de edición: 11-01-2024
EAN: 9781350283763
ISBN: 978-1-350-28376-3
Precio (sin IVA): 153,78 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 159,93 €
This book offers twelve papers analysing the processes, consequences and problems involved in the monetization of warfare and its connection to political power in antiquity. The contributions explore not only how powerful men and states used money and coinage to achieve their aims, but how these aims and methods had often already been shaped by the medium of coined money – typically with unintended consequences. These complex relationships between money, warfare and political power – both personal and collective – are explored across different cultures and socio-political systems around the ancient Mediterranean, ranging from Pharaonic Egypt to Late Antique Europe.