“My aim in writing The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources (Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World) was “to show how rich and nuanced a history of the Hellenistic world one can write through the beautiful gold, silver and bronze coin-issues of its kings and cities.” said the author Peter Thonemann, Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, University of Oxford to greeknewsonline.com
The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources (Cambridge University Press, January 1, 2016) is the first of a new book series, Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World, jointly produced by the American Numismatic Society and Cambridge. The series is designed to introduce students to the ways in which ancient Greek and Roman coinage can be used as a historical source, not only for political history, but economic, social, and art history as well,” Dr. Peter van Alfen, Margaret Thompson Curator of Ancient Greek Coins, American Numismatic Society, told the GN, “With three books currently in preparation on the coinage of Athens and the Athenian Empire, the coinage of Alexander the Great, and the coinage of the Roman Republic, the series will continue to explore various periods and areas of ancient studies.”
While it is suitable as a textbook for university courses in Greek and Roman history and archaeology, the accessibly and vividly written,The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources is also clearly a great addition to the personal library of anyone interested in knowing more about what the author, who is a Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, University of Oxford, calls “the ‘big’ Greek world of the early Hellenistic period, when a single language and culture could carry you from the western Mediterranean to the foothills of the Hindu Kush.”
“This is an up-to-date introduction to the coinages and history of the Hellenistic world, which is to say, of the entire Greek-speaking oikoumene, from Marseilles to India, stretching from the reign of Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) to the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt by Rome (31/30 BC),” Thonemann said.
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