Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- chapter one Introduction -- a introduction: primitive and modern money -- b overview of the argument -- c what is money? -- part one The genesis of coined money -- chapter two Homeric transactions -- a forms of economic transaction in homer -- b the marginality of trade and the absence of money -- c gold and silver in homer -- d reciprocity in crisis -- e the contrast between the (re)distribution of booty and of sacrificial meat -- chapter three Sacrifice and distribution -- a homeric sacrifice: subjective continuity -- b homeric sacrifice: the lack of objective continuity -- c sacrifice and durable wealth in homer -- chapter four Greece and the ancient Near East -- a economies of the ancient near east -- b homer and mesopotamian epic -- c mesopotamian food offerings -- d greek food offerings: the monetisation of cult -- chapter five Greek money -- a the earliest greek money -- b money in the fifth century -- chapter six The preconditions of coinage -- a sacrificial spits -- b from spit to coin -- c from seal to coin -- d seals, coinage, writing -- chapter seven The earliest coinage -- a who invented coinage? -- b when was coinage invented? -- c why was coinage invented? -- d fiduciarity -- chapter eight The features of money -- a walking on the textiles in aeschylus' agamemnon -- b money is homogeneous -- c money is impersonal -- d money is a universal aim -- e money is a universal means -- f money is unlimited -- g money unites opposites -- h money is both concrete and abstract -- i money is distinct from all else -- part two The making of metaphysics -- chapter nine Did politics produce philosophy? -- a law, public space, free debate -- b the style and content of the earliest philosophy -- chapter ten Anaximander and Xenophanes.

a the fragment of anaximander -- b reciprocity and commodity -- c anaximander and miletus -- d xenophanes -- chapter eleven The many and the one -- a why monism? -- b myth, psychoanalysis, politics, money, mystery cult -- chapter twelve Heraclitus and Parmenides -- a heraclitus -- b the development of abstract being -- c is parmenidean metaphysics really influenced by money? -- chapter thirteen Pythagoreanism and Protagoras -- a early pythagoreanism -- b philolaus -- c protagoras -- chapter fourteen Individualisation -- a individualism -- b individualism and communality -- c incommensurability -- d tragic individualism -- e creon and oedipus -- f conclusion -- chapter fifteen Appendix: was money used in the early Near East? -- a introduction -- b did the early near east have coinage? -- c what forms did 'money' take in early mesopotamia? -- d the kanish texts -- e egypt -- f the neo-assyrian and neo-babylonian periods -- g conclusions -- References -- Index.