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

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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. This book analyses the ideological functions of Greek coinage.

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Title Statements

Full title :Coins, bodies, games, and gold : the politics of meaning in archaic Greece / Leslie Kurke.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1999.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton, NJ
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1999.

The Physical Object

Description:xxi, 384 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:069101731X, 9780691017310, 0691007365, 9780691007366
oclc:ocm40682907
LC Classification:DF222.2
Dewey Decimal:938

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.

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Antiquities Betekenis Civilization Coins, Greek Coins, Greek -- Greece Coins, Greek -- History. -- Greece Grèce -- Antiquités Grèce -- Civilisation -- Jusqu'à 146 av… Grèce -- Conditions sociales -- Jusqu'à… Greece Greece -- Antiquities Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C Greece -- Social conditions -- To 146 B… Greece -- Social life and customs Griechenland Griechenland (Altertum) Griekse oudheid History Meaning (Psychology) Meaning (Psychology) -- Greece