Author: Charles Theodore SeltmanPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Athens, Its History and Coinage Before the Persian Invasion
Author: Charles Theodore SeltmanPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Athens, its History and Coinage before the Persian Invasion
Author: Charles T. SeltmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9788827116364
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : it
Pages : 248
Book Description
Athens, Its History and Coinage Before the Persian Invasion
Author: Charles Theodore SeltmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Numismatics, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Women in Antiquity
Author: Charles SeltmanPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789124301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY is mainly about women in those Mediterranean civilisations which are the root of ours. After touching on the life of women in Palaeolithic and Neolithic times, Dr. Seltman comes to the first urban civilisations in Mesopotamia and Egypt, where the exaltation of women was bound up with the religious attitude towards love-goddesses and mother-goddesses. He discusses nudity and the wearing of clothes; fertility rites and sacred prostitution; heroines of the Bible; the cult of Isis. Fascinating pages deal with the women of Minoan Crete and of the Heroic Age (as described by Homer and confirmed by archaeological discoveries). A chapter on Sparta refers to the custom of exposing feeble infants, the annual flagellation of boys, the athletic prowess of girls, and the social and sexual codes. Coming to Athens, he appraises slavery and gives an imaginary Socratic dialogue to show how a 5th-century Athenian would have felt about some of our present Western ideas. This leads to the question: “Why is our modern world so preoccupied with sex and sin?” Dr. Seltman tells of the false 19th-century concepts of Athenian life and the position of women, discusses the hetairai (‘girl-friends’), and contrasts the attitudes of Aristophanes and Plato to women. A chapter entitled “The New Woman” deals with girl athletes as typified by the story of Atalanta. Then we see how women fared in the Hellenistic Age and in the time of the Roman Republic and Empire. The final chapters show how anti-feminism was developed by the Fathers of the Church and frankly discuss monasticism and celibacy. The book is fully documented, and the carefully chosen illustrations are exceptionally interesting.
Athenian Coinage, 480-449 B.C.
Author: Chester G. StarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Athenian Empire
Author: Lisa KalletPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108916015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Coinage played a central role in the history of the Athenian naval empire of the fifth century BC. It made possible the rise of the empire itself, which was financed through tribute in coinage collected annually from the empire's approximately 200 cities. The empire's downfall was brought about by the wealth in Persian coinage that financed its enemies. This book surveys and illustrates, with nearly 200 examples, the extraordinary variety of silver and gold coinages that were employed in the history of the period, minted by cities within the empire and by those cities and rulers that came into contact with it. It also examines how coins supplement the literary sources and even attest to developments in the monetary history of the period that would otherwise be unknown. This is an accessible introduction to both the history of the Athenian empire and to the use of coins as evidence.
Coinage and Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires
Author: Ian CarradicePublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Empires of the Sea
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004407677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.
Money and its Uses in the Ancient Greek World
Author: Andrew MeadowsPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191553743
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The papers in this volume reassess the role of coined money in the ancient Greek world. Using new approaches, the book makes the results of numismatic as well as historical research accessible to students and scholars of ancient history. The chapters provide a wide-ranging account of the political, social, and economic contexts within which coined money was used. In Part One the book focuses on the theme of monetization and the politics of coinage, while Part Two provides a series of case studies relating to the production and use of coined money in different areas of the Greek-speaking world, including Asia Minor, Egypt, and Rhodes as well as Greece itself. The individual chapters cover a broad chronological range from Archaic Greece to Roman Egypt. The book as a whole offers fresh insights into an important aspect of the ancient Greek economy.
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