Leslie Kurke / Coins Bodies Games and Gold The Politics of Meaning in Archaic

Description: Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece Author: Leslie Kurke Title: Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece Publication: Princeton University Press, 1999 Description: Paperback. New trade softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6 x 1.02 x 9 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, and figures. 408 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New. The 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. Seller ID: 200687 Subject: Anthropology, From the Library of Peter Green, Greece The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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