文档介绍：BANKING AND BUSINESS IN THE
ROMAN WORLD
In the first century lending and borrowing by senators – starting
with Caesar and Crassus – was the talk of Rome and even provoked
political crises. During this same period, the state tax-farmers, the
famous publicani, were handling enormous sums and exploiting the
provinces of the empire. Until now no book has presented a syn-
thetic view of Roman banking and financial life as a whole, from
the time of the appearance of the first bankers’ shops in the Forum
between and down to the end of the Principate in
. Professor Andreau writes of the business deals of the elite and
the professional bankers and also of the interventions of the state.
To what extent did the spirit of profit and enterprise predominate
over the traditional values of the city of Rome? And what economic
role did these financiers play? How should pare that role to
that of their counterparts in the late Middle Ages and the early
modern period?
is Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is the author of Les Affaires de
Monsieur Jucundus (Rome ), Vie financière dans le monde romain, les
métiers de manieurs d’argent (Rome ) and Patrimoines, échanges et prêts
d’argent: l’économie romaine (Rome ).
KEY THEMES IN ANCIENT HISTORY
Edited by P. A. CARTLEDGE Clare College, Cambridge and
P. D. A. GARNSEY Jesus College, Cambridge
Key Themes in Ancient History aims to provide readable, informed and origi-
nal studies of various basic topics, designed in the first instance for students and
teachers of Classics and Ancient History, but also for those engaged in related
disciplines. Each volume is devoted to a general theme in Greek, Roman, or
where appropriate, Graeco-Roman history, or to some salient aspect or aspects
of it. Besides indicating the state of current research in the relevant area,
authors seek to show how the theme is significant for our own as well as anc