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Coins, bodies, games, and gold : the politics of meaning in Archaic Greece / Leslie Kurke

This work analyses the ideological functions of coinage in ancient Greece, exploring how currency reflected the tension between the egalitarian polis and elitist traditions. It investigates the symbolic language of metals in archaic social practices and literary texts.

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Accession Number: 2021

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Numismatics/Auxiliary sciences of history Coins/Numismatics/Auxiliary sciences of history Economics/Social sciences/Civilisation Commerce/Economics/Social sciences/Civilisation History Greece -- History -- To 146 BCE Art, Greek/Art, Aegean Coins, Greek

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