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Tokens from Roman Imperial Athens : the power of cultural memory
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Gkikaki, Mairi (2023) Tokens from Roman Imperial Athens : the power of cultural memory. In: Newby, Zahra, (ed.) The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents . Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 95-136. ISBN 9780192868794
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192868794.003.0005
Abstract
The tokens discovered in and around the Stoa of Attalos in Athens and within the destruction layers which resulted from the sack of the city by the Heruli in AD 267 form a coherent lot of particular importance. Careful examination of the legends and the designs they carry as well as key-facts concerning find spot, manufacture, and countermarks provide evidence for their function in festivals of Roman imperial Athens. The chapter places special emphasis on the imagery of these tokens and the multiple readings they enabled. Symbols of Athenian cultural identity converge with images from the glorious past of Greece; models of Athenian elite self-representation collide with Roman views on exploiting the Greek past and appealed equally to Greeks and Romans. The festival communities, enchanted by the aura of classical Athens, profited from the city’s heritage and celebrated the cultural exchange of their own age in the broader spectrum of pan-imperial ideology.
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Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CJ Numismatics D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World D History General and Old World > DF Greece |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | |||||||||
Series Name: | Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents | |||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | |||||||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |||||||||
ISBN: | 9780192868794 | |||||||||
Book Title: | The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East | |||||||||
Editor: | Newby, Zahra | |||||||||
Official Date: | 18 October 2023 | |||||||||
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Number of Pages: | 368 | |||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 95-136 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780192868794.003.0005 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
Description: | Chapter 5 |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 January 2021 | |||||||||
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