Book Series The Numismatic Studies, vol. 33

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

Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert

  • Pages: 400 p.
  • Size:216 x 280 mm
  • Illustrations:124 b/w
  • Language(s):English
  • Publication Year:2017

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  • ISBN: 978-0-89722-341-6
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BIO

Wolfgang R. Fischer-Bossert is an independent scholar specializing in Archaic and Classical coinages of the Greeks including their barbarous neighbours in both the Balkans and the Levant. He has been on the staff of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens and has also worked with the excavation teams at Boğazköy-Hattuša and Karatepe/Cilicia in Turkey. He has published widely, and has taught Classics and Ancient Numismatics at the Freie Universität, Berlin, and at Vienna University. He currently holds a post-doc at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture.

 

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