The Aegean of the Coins - 2 Angebote vergleichen

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 1-2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Booklover-housewife.
The geopolitical position occupied by the Aegean between East and West led to the evolution of ancient civilisations on its scattered islands, and the Aegean itself became a bridge linking Europe historically and culturally with the East. From as early as the Neolithic period, when human beings ventured out on to the seas, the small wooden craft of the Cycladic sailors criss-crossed the Aegean from end to end, transporting merchandise to and from the East; they thus became the bearers of cultural goods, making the Aegean a channel for commercial exchanges. The search for metals to make weapons and tools impelled first the Minoans and then the Mycenaeans to even greater nautical adventures that brought them power and prosperity. Major political-economic changes and the expolsion of trade in the Aegean made it imperative to issue currency in the form of coins having a fixed value. Coins first appeared in the Aegean region in Lydia and Ionia as early as the late 7th century BC. From here, the new invention spread to Greece along the sea routes. Aegina, a leading naval and commercial power of the day, was the first to issue coins, in the years following 570 BC. Her example was immediately followed by Athens, Corinth, and Chaklis. In the Archaic period, the Aegean islands can boast of a very considerable coinage, which is unequivocal evidence for their prosperity and cultural development. On the tiny circular surfaces of the coins -veritable works of art, worhty to be compared with those produced by large-scale sculpture - were engraved symbolic motifs referring directly to the name of the city that struck them, such as the so-called "types parlants", subjects inspired by cults of gods and heroes, by mythology, and by the flora and fauna of the islands; representations executed with great sensitivity by anonymous ancient engravers. Paperback, Ετικέτα: Archaeological Receipts Fund, Archaeological Receipts Fund, Ομάδα προϊόντων: Book, Δημοσιεύθηκε: 1999, Στούντιο: Archaeological Receipts Fund, Κατάταξη στις πωλήσεις: 12759498.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 1-2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Wisepenny.
The geopolitical position occupied by the Aegean between East and West led to the evolution of ancient civilisations on its scattered islands, and the Aegean itself became a bridge linking Europe historically and culturally with the East. From as early as the Neolithic period, when human beings ventured out on to the seas, the small wooden craft of the Cycladic sailors criss-crossed the Aegean from end to end, transporting merchandise to and from the East; they thus became the bearers of cultural goods, making the Aegean a channel for commercial exchanges. The search for metals to make weapons and tools impelled first the Minoans and then the Mycenaeans to even greater nautical adventures that brought them power and prosperity. Major political-economic changes and the expolsion of trade in the Aegean made it imperative to issue currency in the form of coins having a fixed value. Coins first appeared in the Aegean region in Lydia and Ionia as early as the late 7th century BC. From here, the new invention spread to Greece along the sea routes. Aegina, a leading naval and commercial power of the day, was the first to issue coins, in the years following 570 BC. Her example was immediately followed by Athens, Corinth, and Chaklis. In the Archaic period, the Aegean islands can boast of a very considerable coinage, which is unequivocal evidence for their prosperity and cultural development. On the tiny circular surfaces of the coins -veritable works of art, worhty to be compared with those produced by large-scale sculpture - were engraved symbolic motifs referring directly to the name of the city that struck them, such as the so-called "types parlants", subjects inspired by cults of gods and heroes, by mythology, and by the flora and fauna of the islands; representations executed with great sensitivity by anonymous ancient engravers. Paperback, Ετικέτα: Archaeological Receipts Fund, Archaeological Receipts Fund, Ομάδα προϊόντων: Book, Δημοσιεύθηκε: 1999, Στούντιο: Archaeological Receipts Fund, Κατάταξη στις πωλήσεις: 12759498.