03032nam a22002297a 450000500170000000800410001702000310005804000100008905000210009910000270012024501190014726400500026630000300031633600260034633700280037233800270040044000450042750400410047250505620051352016250107554601020270020260224100729.0260224b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780691239125q(hardcover)  cHSLRC  aHC304b.H69 2024  aGrillo, Luca.eauthor.  aHow to make money :ban ancient guide to wealth management /cselected, translated, and introduced by Luca Grillo.  aPrincetonbPrinceton University Press,c2024.  axvii, 228 pages ;c19 cm.  2rdacontentatextbtxt  2rdamediaaunmediatedbn  2rdacarrieravolumebnc  aAncient Wisdom for Modern Readers series  aIncludes bibliographical references.  aChapter 1. How to Become Rich, Envied, and Respected: Farming -- Chapter 2. How to Become Rich, Probably Envied, and Perhaps Respected: Commerce and Banking -- Chapter 3. How to Become Rich, Maybe Envied, but Certainly Not Respected: Taxation and Public Contracts -- Chapter 4. How to Invest, Lose Money, and Gain Popularity: Giving Back to the People -- Chapter 5. How to Invest and Lose Money, Popularity, and Everything Else: Disastrous Investments -- Chapter 6. The Dark Side of Money Making: Human Trafficking – Acknowledgments – Glossary -- Notes.  aAn enriching collection of classical writings about how ancient Romans made--and thought about—money. Ancient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Roman economy was dominated by agriculture, but it was surprisingly modern in many ways: the Romans had companies with CEOs, shareholders, and detailed contracts regulated by meticulous laws; systems of banking and taxation; and a wide range of occupations, from merchant and doctor to architect and teacher. The Romans also enjoyed a relatively open society, where some could start from the bottom, work, invest, and grow rich. How to Make Money gathers a wide variety of ancient writings that show how Romans thought about, made, invested, spent, lost, and gave away money. The Roman elite idealized farming and service to the state but treated many other occupations with suspicion or contempt, from money lending to wage labor. But whatever their attitudes, pecunia made the Roman world go round. In the Satyricon, Trimalchio brags about his wealth. Seneca accumulated a fortune--but taught that money can't buy happiness. Eumachia inherited a brick factory from her father, married well, and turned to philanthropy after she was widowed. How to Make Money also takes up some of the most troubling aspects of the Roman economy, slavery and prostitution, which the elite deemed unrespectable but often profited from. Featuring lively new translations, an illuminating introduction, and the original Latin and Greek texts on facing pages, How to Make Money offers a revealing look at the Roman worlds of work and money
  aPrimarily in English, some parallel text in Greek and Latin; translated from the Greek and Latin.