Coins, Artists, and Tyrants: Syracuse in the Time of the Peloponnesian War

Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert

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Pages: 400 p. Illustrations:124 b/w Language(s):English. Publication Year:2017. ISBN: 978-0-89722-341-6. Hardback --- SUMMARY Coins, Artists, and Tyrants contains the first fully translated and revised text of Lauri O. Tudeer, Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Syrakus in der Periode der signierenden Künstler, as well as a biography of Tudeer, plus a completely new evaluation of signed coin dies and the artists who produced them. Over 100 years after its first publication, Wolfgang R. Fischer-Bossert completely updates the scholarship and bibliography on signed Syracusan tetradrachms, making this book the single most important source on the subject. The book includes plates, a full-color die-link chart, and three pull-outs featuring Syracusan tetradrachms and hoards. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Historical Background Die Links Epigraphy Imitations and Remodelings Hoards Views of Older Scholarship Conclusion Catalogue Lauri O. Th. Tudeer: A Biographical Sketch (Tuukka Talvio)Translation of Tudeer s Preface (trans. Orla Mulholland) Translation of Tudeer s Commentary (trans. Orla Mulholland)Annotated Bibliography Collection Index Concordance Indices Plates. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers spa33

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