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Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold
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by:
Kurke, Leslie
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Publisher:
Princeton Univ Pr
Published: August 9, 1999
ISBN: 069101731X
Format:Hardcover
Pages:368
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Book Description
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction Toward an Imaginary History of Coinage
PART ONE: DISCOURSES
Chapter One The Language of Metals
Chapter Two Tyrants and Transgression: Darius and Amasis
Chapter Three Counterfeiting and Gift Exchange: The Fate of Polykrates
Chapter Four Kroisos and the Oracular Economy
PART TWO: PRACTICES
Chapter Five The Hetaira and the Porne
Chapter Six Herodotus's Traffic in Women
Chapter Seven Games People
Play
Chapter Eight Minting Citizens
Conclusion Ideology, Objects, and Subjects
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
About the Author
Leslie Kurke is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California,
Berkeley. She is the author of The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy and the co-editor, with Carol Dougherty, of Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics.
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