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

Author:   Leslie Kurke
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
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9780691007366


Pages:   408
Publication Date:   29 August 1999
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Leslie Kurke
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.595kg
ISBN:  

9780691007366


ISBN 10:   0691007365
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   29 August 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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""An excellent monograph on several aspects of the varied culture of ancient Greece. Scholars and graduate students will applaud her study...""--Choice ""Eminently engaging ... This is an important, fascinating book that should not be ignored by any monetary theorist.""--L. Randall Wray, Journal of Economic Issues ""Kurke's book is lucidly and coherently written... Even if we cannot unreservedly sign up to Kurke's thesis, we still feel that we have learned a great deal in following its progress.""--Sue Blundell, American Historical Review


An excellent monograph on several aspects of the varied culture of ancient Greece. Scholars and graduate students will applaud her study... -- Choice Eminently engaging ... This is an important, fascinating book that should not be ignored by any monetary theorist. --L. Randall Wray, Journal of Economic Issues Kurke's book is lucidly and coherently written... Even if we cannot unreservedly sign up to Kurke's thesis, we still feel that we have learned a great deal in following its progress. --Sue Blundell, American Historical Review


An excellent monograph on several aspects of the varied culture of ancient Greece. Scholars and graduate students will applaud her study... -- Choice Eminently engaging ... This is an important, fascinating book that should not be ignored by any monetary theorist. -- L. Randall Wray, Journal of Economic Issues Kurke's book is lucidly and coherently written... Even if we cannot unreservedly sign up to Kurke's thesis, we still feel that we have learned a great deal in following its progress. -- Sue Blundell, American Historical Review


An excellent monograph on several aspects of the varied culture of ancient Greece. Scholars and graduate students will applaud her study... Choice Eminently engaging ... This is an important, fascinating book that should not be ignored by any monetary theorist. -- L. Randall Wray Journal of Economic Issues Kurke's book is lucidly and coherently written... Even if we cannot unreservedly sign up to Kurke's thesis, we still feel that we have learned a great deal in following its progress. -- Sue Blundell American Historical Review


An excellent monograph on several aspects of the varied culture of ancient Greece. Scholars and graduate students will applaud her study... Choice Eminently engaging ... This is an important, fascinating book that should not be ignored by any monetary theorist. -- L. Randall Wray Journal of Economic Issues Kurke's book is lucidly and coherently written... Even if we cannot unreservedly sign up to Kurke's thesis, we still feel that we have learned a great deal in following its progress. -- Sue Blundell American Historical Review


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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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