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The power of money : coinage and politics in the Athenian Empire / Thomas Figueira.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Figueira, Thomas J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics in numismatics--Greece--Athens--History.
- Politics in numismatics.
- Coinage--Greece--Athens--History.
- Coinage.
- Monetary policy--Greece--Athens--History.
- Monetary policy.
- Greece--History--Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.
- Greece.
- Athens (Greece)--Politics and government.
- Athens (Greece).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (648 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Was Athens an imperialistic state, deserving all the reputation for exploitation that adjective can imply, or was the Athenian alliance, even at its most unequal, still characterized by a convergence of interests?The Power of Money explores monetary and metrological policy at Athens as a way of discerning the character of Athenian hegemony in midfifth-century Greece. It begins with the Athenian Coinage Decree, which, after decades of scholarly attention, still presents unresolved questions for Greek historians about content, intent, date, and effect. Was the Decree an act of commercial imperialism or simply the codification of what was already current practice?Figueira interprets the Decree as one in a series concerned with financial matters affecting the Athenian city-state and emerging from the way the collection of tribute functioned in the alliance that we call the Athenian empire. He contends that the Decree served primarily to legislate the status quo ante.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Numismatic evidence for monetary policy
- pt. 2. Literary evidence for monetary policy
- pt. 3. Monetary policy in historical context
- pt. 4. Epigraphical evidence for monetary policy
- pt. 5. Synthesis.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [599]-608) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-21162-9
- 9786613211620
- 0-8122-0190-6
- OCLC:
- 759158208
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