Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold : : The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece /

Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold : : The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece / / Leslie Kurke.

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The invention of coinage in ancient Greece provided an arena in which rival political groups struggled to imprint their views on the world. Here Leslie Kurke analyzes the ideological functions of Greek coinage as one of a number of symbolic practices that arise for the first time in the archaic peri...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Kurke, Leslie,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1999
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.) :; 9 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • INTRODUCTION Toward an Imaginary History of Coinage
  • Part One DISCOURSES
  • CHAPTER 1 The Language of Metals
  • CHAPTER 2 Tyrants and Transgression: Darius and Amasis
  • CHAPTER 3 Counterfeiting and Gift Exchange: The Fate of Polykrates
  • CHAPTER 4 Kroisos and the Oracular Economy
  • Part Two. PRACTICES
  • CHAPTER 5 The Hetaira and the Porné
  • CHAPTER 6 Herodotus's Traffic in Women
  • CHAPTER 7 Games People Play
  • CHAPTER 8 Minting Citizens
  • CONCLUSION. Ideology, Objects, and Subjects
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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