title: Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens
author:  Paul Millett 
description: This is a book about the social and economic history of ancient Greece and has as its core a detailed study of credit relations in Athens during the fourth century BC. It looks at ancient economy and society in their own terms and demonstrates that the very different system of credit in Athens had its own complexity and sophistication.
zlib_text: Hans van Wees is Grote Professor of Ancient History 
  at University College London. His books include Greek 
  Warfare: Myth and realities; The Cambridge History of  
  Greek and Roman Warfare (two volumes, edited with 
  Philip Sabin and Michael Whitby); Archaic Greece: New 
  approaches and new evidence (edited with Nick Fisher); 
  War and Violence in Ancient Greece and A Companion to 
  Archaic Greece (edited with Kurt A. Raaflaub).
  
  ‘With this important book Hans van Wees is the first historian 
  systematically to approach ancient Greek economy and society 
  along the lines of the “new fiscal history”. The results are highly 
  rewarding, and go far beyond the area of public finance. In 
  addition to a fresh perspective on key aspects of the archaic 
  Greek world, the author provides numerous insights into the 
  elusive process of state formation in Athens and elsewhere.’
   
  Paul Millett, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge,  
  author of Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens
   
  ‘Hans 