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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aKurke, Leslie
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCoins, Bodies, Games, and Gold :
_bThe Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece /
_cLeslie Kurke.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©1999
300 _a1 online resource (408 p.) :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAbbreviations --
_tINTRODUCTION Toward an Imaginary History of Coinage --
_tPart One DISCOURSES --
_tCHAPTER 1 The Language of Metals --
_tCHAPTER 2 Tyrants and Transgression: Darius and Amasis --
_tCHAPTER 3 Counterfeiting and Gift Exchange: The Fate of Polykrates --
_tCHAPTER 4 Kroisos and the Oracular Economy --
_tPart Two. PRACTICES --
_tCHAPTER 5 The Hetaira and the Porné --
_tCHAPTER 6 Herodotus's Traffic in Women --
_tCHAPTER 7 Games People Play --
_tCHAPTER 8 Minting Citizens --
_tCONCLUSION. Ideology, Objects, and Subjects --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex Locorum --
_tGeneral Index --
_tABOUT THE AUTHOR
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aThe 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 period. By linking the imagery of metals and coinage to stories about oracles, prostitutes, Eastern tyrants, counterfeiting, retail trade, and games, she traces the rising egalitarian ideology of the polis, as well as the ongoing resistance of an elitist tradition to that development. The argument thus aims to contribute to a Greek "history of ideologies," to chart the ways ideological contestation works through concrete discourses and practices long before the emergence of explicit political theory. To an elitist sensibility, the use of almost pure silver stamped with the state's emblem was a suspicious alternative to the para-political order of gift exchange. It ultimately represented the undesirable encroachment of the public sphere of the egalitarian polis. Kurke re-creates a "language of metals" by analyzing the stories and practices associated with coinage in texts ranging from Herodotus and archaic poetry to Aristotle and Attic inscriptions. She shows that a wide variety of imagery and terms fall into two opposing symbolic domains: the city, representing egalitarian order, and the elite symposium, a kind of anti-city. Exploring the tensions between these domains, Kurke excavates a neglected portion of the Greek cultural "imaginary" in all its specificity and strangeness.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
650 0 _aCoins, Greek
_zGreece
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMeaning (Psychology)
_zGreece.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Ancient / Greece.
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653 _aAigina.
653 _aAlkidamas.
653 _aAlkman.
653 _aAlyattes.
653 _aAnacharsis.
653 _aAstyages.
653 _aBohannan, Paul.
653 _aCassin, E.
653 _aCheops.
653 _aCorinth.
653 _aDeinomenids.
653 _aExekias.
653 _aGentili, B.
653 _aGould, J.
653 _aGreat King.
653 _aHartog, F.
653 _aHipponax.
653 _aIsocrates.
653 _aKambyses.
653 _aKraay, Colin.
653 _aLucian.
653 _aMaiandrios.
653 _aNeer, R.
653 _aNitokris.
653 _aOroites.
653 _aPalamedes.
653 _aPantaleon.
653 _aPhalaris.
653 _aScythians.
653 _aSyloson.
653 _aTelesarchos.
653 _aTheodoros.
653 _aTheseus.
653 _aWill, Edouard.
653 _aanthropology.
653 _aautochthony.
653 _aburial.
653 _adaric.
653 _adokimos.
653 _aeducation.
653 _aepinikion.
653 _ahero cult.
653 _ahetaira-symposia.
653 _ahistor.
653 _aiconography.
653 _ametallurgy.
653 _aoligarchy.
653 _apalaistra.
653 _apharaoh.
653 _astructuralism.
653 _asymposium.
653 _athalassocracy.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780691223322?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691223322
856 4 2 _3Cover
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