The business life of ancient Athens / by George M. Calhoun; introduction by Wigginton E. Creed.

Introduction / Wigginton E. Creed -- Part I. The course of economic evolution in Greece -- Pre-Hellenic and Homeric times -- Industry and finance under the aristocracy -- The industrial revolution and the tyrants -- Tue fifth and fourth centuries -- Part II. The Athenian grain trade -- Introduction -- The capitalist -- The merchant adventurer -- The ship captain -- The distributors -- Part III. Banks and bankers -- Introduction -- From money-changer to banker -- Bank equipment and personnel -- Functions and clientele -- Resources—capital, surplus, credit -- The banker and the courts -- The banker’s character and standing -- Greek banking in Hellenistic and Roman times -- Part IV. Mines and mining -- Introduction -- Apparatus and workings -- Extraction and dressing of the ore -- Ore reduction and separation of silver -- Labor and working conditions -- The products of the mines -- The Attic law of mines -- A famous mining case.