Coins, bodies, games, and gold : the politics of meaning in archaic Greece /

The invention of coinage in ancient Greece provided an arena in which rival political groups struggled to imprint their views on the world. This book analyses the ideological functions of Greek coinage.

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Tác giả chính: Kurke, Leslie
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press ©1999.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv182jtfx
Mục lục:
  • The language of metals
  • Tyrants and transgression: Darius and Amasis
  • Counterfeiting and gift exchange: the fate of Polykrates
  • Kroisos and the oracular economy
  • The Hetaira and the Pornē
  • Herodotus's traffic on women
  • Games people play
  • Minting citizens.