Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Sehr guter Zustand. Einband minimal berieben / Very good condition. Binding minimally worn. - Contents Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Toward an Imaginary History of Coinage I. What Is Coinage for? Numismatic and Historical Debates II. Literary Methodology HI. The Structure of the Argument PART ONE: DISCOURSES Chapter One 7116 Language of Metals I. Forging the Language of Metals II. Metals and Others in Herodotus Chapter Two 7- rants and Transgression: Darius and Amasis I. Darius and the Daric II. Darius Kapelos HI. Amasis the Vulgar Tyrant Chapter Three 2 unterfeiting and Gift Exchange: The Fate of Polykrates L Counterfeiting and Violated Exchange H. Cosmic Reciprocity HI. Gift Exchange as Civic Violence Chapter Four Kroisos and the Oracular Economy L Kroisos in Epinikion IL Gift Exchange, the Grotesque Body, and the Civic Norm HL Competing Economies, Competing Epiphanies Lydians and Ludopatheis: The Gap between History and Ethnography PART TWO: PRACTICES Chapter Five The Hetaira and the Porne I. Inventing the Hetaira II. The Pome and the Public Sphere III . Ideological Faultlines Chapter Si x Herodotus�s Traffic in Women I. Herodotean Pressure: Destabilizing the Terms II. Herodotean Alternatives: Reimagining the Public Sphere Chapter Se ven Games People Play I. Games and Other Symbolic Systems II. Pessoi: The Mediation of the Game Board III. Aristocratic Games: Embodiment, Chance, and Ordeal IV. Herodotean Games Chapter Ei ght Minting Citizens I. The Two Sides of the Coin: Materiality as Ideology II. Coins Are Good to Think with III. Changing the Currency Conclusion Ideology, Objects, and Subjects Bibliography Index Locorum General Index. ISBN 9780691007366