PAPYRI AND THE ECONOMY OF THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD  

作　　者：Kai Ruffing 

机构地区：[1]University of Kassel

出　　处：《Journal of Ancient Civilizations》2020年第1期95-131,134,共38页世界古典文明史杂志（英文版）

摘　　要：In current research on the economy of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds it is taken for granted to use papyri as evidence for ancient economic structures,practices,and mentalities.Nevertheless,the utility of papyri is all but selfevident,at least as far as research of the 20th century is concerned.Egypt including its source material was considered a special,particular case and thought to be entirely useless for writing economic history of Greece and Rome.This was especially true for primitivist orthodoxy.Moreover,it was particularly German scholarship that showed some neglect towards economic history and thus papyri.Against the background of the general discussion on the character of ancient economy the present paper aims to trace how and to what extent papyri were and are used as evidence.It starts with the outbreak of the Biicher-Meyer controversy and tries to pursue the discussion to the present day.

关 键 词：entirely concerned ANCIENT 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]