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Aesopic Conversations
Kurke Leslie
edizioni Princeton Univ Pr collana Princeton Univ Pr (Paperback) , 2010
Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting...
Coins, Bodies, Games and Gold
Leslie Kurke
edizioni BERTRAMS PRINT ON DEMAND , 1999
The invention of coinage in ancient Greece provided an arena in which rival political groups struggled to imprint their views on the world. Here Leslie Kurke analyzes the ideological functions of Greek coinage as one of a number of symbolic practices that arise for the first time in the archaic period. By linking the...