COINS, BODIES, GAMES, AND GOLD Softcover - 1999
by Kurke, Leslie
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- Title COINS, BODIES, GAMES, AND GOLD
- Author Kurke, Leslie
- Binding Softcover
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 408
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
- Date 1999
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 35165
- ISBN 9780691007366 / 0691007365
- Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.16 x 1.05 in (23.47 x 15.65 x 2.67 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Library of Congress subjects Greece - Civilization - To 146 B.C, Greece - Antiquities
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99012205
- Dewey Decimal Code 938
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From the rear cover
"Leslie Kurke's readings are always interesting, often simply brilliant. She does a superb job of presenting Herodotus as a locus for the preservation of the archaic debate. Highly innovative and well-documented, this book will be a model for future work in the broader field of historically grounded poetics."--Josiah Ober, Princeton University
"Leslie Kurke has written an original and exciting work that will refine our understanding and pique our interest in ancient metals and money. This book raises gripping questions about important ancient practices and ideologies and offers a powerful argument for using both positivistic and theoretical approaches to ancient material. Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold will give classicists much to ponder and argue about; cultural historians and comparatists in other fields, too, should read this book."--Deborah Boedecker, Center for Hellenic Studies and Brown University