Earnings and Costs: Living Standards and the Roman Economy

Quantifying the Roman Economy: Methods and Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Rathbone, Dominic ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coinage; Diocletian; Earnings; Edict on Maximum Prices; Gold; Living standards; Wheat prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199562596.003.0015     Document Type: Chapter

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