Introduction to Ancient Greece

This “Introduction” situates the chapters in the second part of Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money on Ancient Greece. The introduction frames the part as a whole with general comments on monetization in the Ancient Greek world as well as the various relationships between money and philosophy in Greek culture. This introduction locates these general issues within the individual chapters in the part whose major themes include: money and pre-Socratic thought; the sophists; the oligarch and hoarding in Plato; Xenophon on the right use of money; the cynics; and Aristotle on the relation of slavery and inequality to money.