{"product_id":"coins-bodies-games-and-gold-9780691007366","title":"Coins Bodies Games and Gold","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnalyzes the ideological functions of Greek coinage. By linking the imagery of metals and coinage to stories about oracles, prostitutes, Eastern tyrants, counterfeiting, retail trade, and games, this book traces the rising egalitarian ideology of the polis, as well as the resistance of an elitist tradition to that development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations ix  Preface xi  Acknowledgments xiii  Abbreviations xvii  Introduction Toward an Imaginary History of Coinage 3  I. What Is Coinage for? Numismatic and Historical Debates 6  II. Literary Methodology 23  III. The Structure of the Argument 32  PART ONE: DISCOURSES  Chapter One The Language of Metals 41  I. Forging the Language of Metals 45  II. Metals and Others in Herodotus 60  Chapter Two Tyrants and Transgression: Darius and Amasis 65  I. Darius and the Daric 68  II. Darius Kapelos 80  III. Amasis the Vulgar Tyrant 89  Chapter Three Counterfeiting and Gift Exchange: The Fate of Polykrates 101  I. Counterfeiting and Violated Exchange 101  II. Cosmic Reciprocity ill  III. Gift Exchange as Civic Violence 121  Chapter Four Kroisos and the Oracular Economy 130  I. Kroisos in Epinikion 131  II. Gift Exchange, the Grotesque Body, and the Civic Norm 142  III. Competing Economies, Competing Epiphanies 152  IV. Lydians and Ludopatheis: The Gap between History and Ethnography 165  PART TWO: PRACTICES  Chapter Five The Hetaira and the Porne 175  I. Inventing the Hetaira 178  II. The Porne and the Public Sphere 187  III. Ideological Faultlines 199  Chapter Six Herodotus's Traffic in Women 220  I. Herodotean Pressure: Destabilizing the Terms 220  II. Herodotean Alternatives: Reimagining the Public Sphere 227  Chapter Seven Games People Play 247  I. Games and Other Symbolic Systems 248  II. Pessoi: The Mediation of the Game Board 254  III. Aristocratic Games: Embodiment, Chance, and Ordeal 275  IV. Herodotean Games 295  Chapter Eight Minting Citizens 299  I. The Two Sides of the Coin: Materiality as Ideology 301  II. Coins Are Good to Think with 316  III. Changing the Currency 328  Conclusion Ideology, Objects, and Subjects 332  Bibliography 337  Index Locorum 365  General Index 373","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49526150431063,"sku":"9780691007366","price":56.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691007366.jpg?v=1731863137","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/coins-bodies-games-and-gold-9780691007366","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}