Strapped for Cash - Needy Soldiers, Reluctant Authorities

Meletemata Series, No. 86. Athens, 2023. In English. Contains eight papers on Greek and Roman numismatics. Soft cover, 24 cm, 288 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-960-371-087-5.

The studies in the volume discuss the use of coinage in relation to the salaries of the troops, but also in relation to the daily needs of the soldiers, both in peacetime and during war operations. The scarcity of sources dealing with the payment of troops leads to interesting methodological approaches, the results of which illuminate aspects of the wider economic and military history. The volume examines the tripartite relationship of Money-Payment-Military activities, through a broad chronological and geographical spectrum covering the period from the Classical period to Roman Imperial times, starting from Gaul and the Iberian Peninsula and reaching to the East.