Banking and Business in the Roman World

Cambridge University Press | ISBN 0521389321 | 1999 | PDF | 2 MB | 192 pages

In the last decades of the fourth century BC, between 318 and 310, professional bankers (argentarii ) began doing business in Rome. They continued operating until the second half of the third century AD when, for the time being, their profession disappeared. This book is a study of all aspects of private finance throughout these six centuries, the central period of ancient Roman history. Financial life – loans, for example – existed before the beginning of this period and sprang up again in late antiquity, but these six centuries seem to me to constitute a unity for various reasons which will be explained in the course of the book.

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