 | The Power of Money: Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire Subjects: Coinage -- Political aspects -- Greece -- Athens -- History; Monetary policy -- Greece -- Athens -- History; Greece -- History -- Athenian supremacy 479–431 b.c.; Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government; " The Power of Money is a brilliant and highly original piece of scholarship on a group of inscriptions about which much has been written and whose interpretation is crucial for our understanding of the way in which Athens ruled her empire."--Martin Ostwald, Swarthmore College Thomas Figueira is Professor of Classics and of Ancient History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. |
