David Schaps
Biographic Data
| ID | 5369173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Schaps |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaps |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAPS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Money, Credit, and Banking
From the late archaic period, all the functions of money – medium of exchange, measure of value, store of value, and medium of payment – were performed by coins, almost always silver, struck by scores of states on a few different weight standards. Market trade, international commerce, and labor were all mediated by money. Finance was an important, and often decisive, factor in statecraft and warfare, and temples were both dependent upon and reple…
Reconstructing the Ancient World
Markets, Greek
The word “market” may refer, as the corresponding ancient terms did, to a place where trade is carried out, or in its more modern sense to the aggregate of real and potential buyers and sellers. In the first sense the Greeks distinguished between an Agora , in which trade was predominantly local, and an Emporion , a center of international – generally, in Greece, maritime – trade.
Chrematistike
Chrematizo was the classical verb for “making money,” and one who did so was a chrematistes ; philosophers used the term chrematistike (techne) to designate business pursued for profit. It is noteworthy that they conceived of no other method for supplying a community's needs.
Oikonomika (treatise)
The Oikonomika attributed to Aristotle is three unrelated short works, none of them, apparently, written by him, but all probably deriving from his philosophic school. The first book is a brief treatise on household management, the second a longer discussion of governmental finance, and the third, which exists only in two medieval Latin translations, a short manual for marital happiness.
Scales
The balance (Gk. talanta , stathmon , Lat. libra , trutina , later bilanx , “double‐dish”) had two pans suspended from a beam (Gk. zygon , Lat. iugum , librile , scapus ), itself suspended in the center by a cord (Gk. spartion , Lat. ansa ): the item to be weighed was placed in one pan and known weights in the other.
Oikos (family)
The word oikos in early Greek referred to a building ( see Oikos (House)) or to the aggregate of a person's possessions. In the Classical period it came to be used also for what we should call the nuclear family: a husband, wife, their dependents (both children and retired parents) and their property, including slaves and animals. The family in this sense both predated and outlasted the Polis , and although the laws took its existence for granted…
Spits
During the Archaic period no single item performed all the functions of money; this is a general characteristic of primitive money.
Kyrios
A kyrios was anyone who had responsible power ( kyros ) over something. Aperson might be kyrios (“entitled”) to do an action (Aesch. Ag . 104), kyrios to deal with (Soph. Aj . 734), or decide (Xen. Hell . 2.2.18) a matter, kyrios of a household (Aesch. Cho . 658) or of astate (Arist. Pol . 1281a11). Avalid decision was kyrios (Dem. 24.1), an invalid one akyros (Andoc.1.8).
Handbook for Classical Research
One of the glories of the Greco-Roman classics is the opportunity that they give us to consider a great culture in its entirety; but our ability to do that depends on our ability to work comfortably with very varied fields of scholarship. The Handbook for Classical Research offers guidance to students needing to learn more about the different fields and subfields of classical research, and its methods and resources. The book is divided into 7 par…
What Was Money in Ancient Greece?
This chapter discusses the significance of money in ancient Greece. It argues that economies managed by using reciprocity and redistribution, special-purpose money, credit, and most importantly, economies managed because of the way they were embedded in the social system in ancient Greece. However these were not the dominant factors organizing the economy. Inflation and deflation, the integration of markets, the creation of money through credit, …
For All That a Woman: Medea 1250
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Law in the Documents of the Judaean Desert
The discovery in the Judaean desert between 1951 and 1961 of documentary papyri from the period of the Bar-Kochba Revolt in the early second century opened for the first time a window on the lives of Jewish lay people on the periphery of Judaea in a critical period of history. By the year 2000 these texts were published in full. Of particular interest was the light they shed on the interplay of Jewish, Greek and Roman law in the Roman provinces o…
The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece
Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society and brought with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and new elites. In a book that will encourage scholarly discussion for some time, David M. Schaps addresses a range of important coinage topics, among them money, exchange, and economic organization in the Near East and in Greece before …
Socrates and the Socratics: When Wealth Became a Problem
Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B. C
Antiphanes Fragment 206 and the Location of the Deme Otryne
Economic Rights of Women in Ancient Greece
The Found and Lost Manuscripts of Tacitus' Agricola
CAQ Volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Fornt matter
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The Woman Least Mentioned: Etiquette And Women's Names
‘And if I must make some mention of the virtue of those wives who will now bein widowhood, I will indicate all with a brief word of advice. To be no worse thanyour proper nature, is a great honour for you; andgreat honour is hers, whose reputation among males is least, whether for praise or for blame.’
Women in Greek Inheritance Law
In 1824 Eduard Gans, in the course of a study of inheritance law, had occasion to deal with the class of women known in Athens as epikleroi —daughters of a deceased man who, in the absence of sons, were married to their nearest relative, with the estate of the deceased passing to the son or sons of the new union. ‘For these,’ he wrote, ‘... the basic concept throughout is not that, in the absence of descendants, they themselves appear as inherito…
The Woman Least Mentioned: Etiquette And Women's Names
‘And if I must make some mention of the virtue of those wives who will now bein widowhood, I will indicate all with a brief word of advice. To be no worse thanyour proper nature, is a great honour for you; andgreat honour is hers, whose reputation among males is least, whether for praise or for blame.’
Women in Greek Inheritance Law
In 1824 Eduard Gans, in the course of a study of inheritance law, had occasion to deal with the class of women known in Athens as epikleroi —daughters of a deceased man who, in the absence of sons, were married to their nearest relative, with the estate of the deceased passing to the son or sons of the new union. ‘For these,’ he wrote, ‘... the basic concept throughout is not that, in the absence of descendants, they themselves appear as inherito…
Handbook for Classical Research
One of the glories of the Greco-Roman classics is the opportunity that they give us to consider a great culture in its entirety; but our ability to do that depends on our ability to work comfortably with very varied fields of scholarship. The Handbook for Classical Research offers guidance to students needing to learn more about the different fields and subfields of classical research, and its methods and resources. The book is divided into 7 par…
The Found and Lost Manuscripts of Tacitus' Agricola
Women in Greek Inheritance Law
In 1824 Eduard Gans, in the course of a study of inheritance law, had occasion to deal with the class of women known in Athens as epikleroi —daughters of a deceased man who, in the absence of sons, were married to their nearest relative, with the estate of the deceased passing to the son or sons of the new union. ‘For these,’ he wrote, ‘... the basic concept throughout is not that, in the absence of descendants, they themselves appear as inherito…
CAQ Volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Fornt matter
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Woman Least Mentioned: Etiquette And Women's Names
‘And if I must make some mention of the virtue of those wives who will now bein widowhood, I will indicate all with a brief word of advice. To be no worse thanyour proper nature, is a great honour for you; andgreat honour is hers, whose reputation among males is least, whether for praise or for blame.’
The Found and Lost Manuscripts of Tacitus' Agricola
Economic Rights of Women in Ancient Greece
Antiphanes Fragment 206 and the Location of the Deme Otryne
Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B. C
The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece
Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society and brought with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and new elites. In a book that will encourage scholarly discussion for some time, David M. Schaps addresses a range of important coinage topics, among them money, exchange, and economic organization in the Near East and in Greece before …
Socrates and the Socratics: When Wealth Became a Problem
Law in the Documents of the Judaean Desert
The discovery in the Judaean desert between 1951 and 1961 of documentary papyri from the period of the Bar-Kochba Revolt in the early second century opened for the first time a window on the lives of Jewish lay people on the periphery of Judaea in a critical period of history. By the year 2000 these texts were published in full. Of particular interest was the light they shed on the interplay of Jewish, Greek and Roman law in the Roman provinces o…
For All That a Woman: Medea 1250
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
What Was Money in Ancient Greece?
This chapter discusses the significance of money in ancient Greece. It argues that economies managed by using reciprocity and redistribution, special-purpose money, credit, and most importantly, economies managed because of the way they were embedded in the social system in ancient Greece. However these were not the dominant factors organizing the economy. Inflation and deflation, the integration of markets, the creation of money through credit, …
Handbook for Classical Research
One of the glories of the Greco-Roman classics is the opportunity that they give us to consider a great culture in its entirety; but our ability to do that depends on our ability to work comfortably with very varied fields of scholarship. The Handbook for Classical Research offers guidance to students needing to learn more about the different fields and subfields of classical research, and its methods and resources. The book is divided into 7 par…
Markets, Greek
The word “market” may refer, as the corresponding ancient terms did, to a place where trade is carried out, or in its more modern sense to the aggregate of real and potential buyers and sellers. In the first sense the Greeks distinguished between an Agora , in which trade was predominantly local, and an Emporion , a center of international – generally, in Greece, maritime – trade.
Chrematistike
Chrematizo was the classical verb for “making money,” and one who did so was a chrematistes ; philosophers used the term chrematistike (techne) to designate business pursued for profit. It is noteworthy that they conceived of no other method for supplying a community's needs.
Oikonomika (treatise)
The Oikonomika attributed to Aristotle is three unrelated short works, none of them, apparently, written by him, but all probably deriving from his philosophic school. The first book is a brief treatise on household management, the second a longer discussion of governmental finance, and the third, which exists only in two medieval Latin translations, a short manual for marital happiness.
Scales
The balance (Gk. talanta , stathmon , Lat. libra , trutina , later bilanx , “double‐dish”) had two pans suspended from a beam (Gk. zygon , Lat. iugum , librile , scapus ), itself suspended in the center by a cord (Gk. spartion , Lat. ansa ): the item to be weighed was placed in one pan and known weights in the other.
Oikos (family)
The word oikos in early Greek referred to a building ( see Oikos (House)) or to the aggregate of a person's possessions. In the Classical period it came to be used also for what we should call the nuclear family: a husband, wife, their dependents (both children and retired parents) and their property, including slaves and animals. The family in this sense both predated and outlasted the Polis , and although the laws took its existence for granted…
Spits
During the Archaic period no single item performed all the functions of money; this is a general characteristic of primitive money.
Kyrios
A kyrios was anyone who had responsible power ( kyros ) over something. Aperson might be kyrios (“entitled”) to do an action (Aesch. Ag . 104), kyrios to deal with (Soph. Aj . 734), or decide (Xen. Hell . 2.2.18) a matter, kyrios of a household (Aesch. Cho . 658) or of astate (Arist. Pol . 1281a11). Avalid decision was kyrios (Dem. 24.1), an invalid one akyros (Andoc.1.8).
Reconstructing the Ancient World
Money, Credit, and Banking
From the late archaic period, all the functions of money – medium of exchange, measure of value, store of value, and medium of payment – were performed by coins, almost always silver, struck by scores of states on a few different weight standards. Market trade, international commerce, and labor were all mediated by money. Finance was an important, and often decisive, factor in statecraft and warfare, and temples were both dependent upon and reple…
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