Author: Joseph LinzalonePublisher:
ISBN: 9780939767625
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Electrum and the Invention of Coinage
Author: Joseph LinzalonePublisher:
ISBN: 9780939767625
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece
Author: David SchapsPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472036408
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society and brought with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and new elites. In a book that will encourage scholarly discussion for some time, David M. Schaps addresses a range of important coinage topics, among them money, exchange, and economic organization in the Near East and in Greece before the introduction of coinage; the invention of coinage and the reasons for its adoption; and the developing use of money to make more money.
Money and the Early Greek Mind
Author: Richard SeafordPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521539920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. By transforming social relations monetisation contributed to the ideas of the universe as an impersonal system, fundamental to Presocratic philosophy, and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods, as found in tragedy.
Acheloios, Thales, and the Origin of Philosophy
Author: Nicholas J. MolinariPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 180327087X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Through careful analysis of the archaeological record, close reading of ancient sources, and deep investigations into the languages of our past, this study demonstrates the importance of the influence of the cult of Acheloios on Thales, fundamentally changing our understanding of the origin of the philosophical experience in 6th century Ionia.
Marsden's Numismata Orientalia
Author: Edward ThomasPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382500868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Types of Greek Coins
Author: Percy GardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Canadian Antiquarian and Numismatic Journal
Author: The Canadian Antiquarian and Numismatic Journal
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385482607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Proceedings of the British Academy
Author: British academyGold: How it Shaped History
Author: Alan EreiraPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1036115356
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 651
Book Description
Gold is not what we think. It is usually discussed in the context of wealth and art but this book has a broader subject, so fundamental that it has been largely unremarked. Informed by a mass of recent discoveries and a South American indigenous perspective, it offers a new way of understanding the history of civilization. Gold has been coinage, treasure and adornment. But it has been much more, as the hidden driver of wars and revolutions, the rise and fall of empires and the transformation of societies. As the sun traveled east to west across the sky, gold, incorruptible and corrupting, flowed west to east, hand to hand across the world. That flow has brought empires to grow and collapse and driven plunder, conquest and colonization. It brought about wars and revolutions, empowered new forms of arts and science and created the capitalist consumer economy that dominates us now. All the gold people ever shaped still exists, shining as new; it can be mislaid but never decays. Right from its first appearance on the west shore of the Black Sea, long before the rise of Egypt and Mesopotamia, gold crowned the first proto-king. Ever since, it has been regarded as value incarnate with transcendental power. The quantity we take has been increasing steadily for 6,500 years. Now extraction accelerates. Our gold mountain has doubled in the last fifty years. Yet its price increases faster. While the quantity doubled, its buying power multiplied by six. What does gold do that makes us want it so much? As Alan Ereira reveals in this skilfully woven narrative, gold is the hidden actor that shapes our story.