![]() This ends the history of the drachma which lasted for more than 1 millennium. The drachma (Δραχμή) was a currency that also the new Greek State adopted and that is now replaced by the EURO. Athena and the Owl ( Who brings owls to Athens? Aristophanes Birds (an expression for something totally unnecessary ) )įor a period of 1000 years and considering the small cities states and the colonies we can assume that there exists a rich set of different coins. ![]() It also was important for political changes: from the aristocratic to the system of tyrants (often wealthy persons) and then to the democratic system.ĭevelopment of the Athenian Silver Tetradrachma and the Greek 1 Euro version today (Designer: G.Stamatopoulos). ![]() It abstracted the value of commodities or objects in exchange and helped to initiate a new mode of abstract thinking. Money in form of coins is as strange as sounds one of the main reasons for the scientific revolution that started in the Ionian Greek islands. Oikos a Greek word for "house, habitation" from which the word ecumene is derived "the inhabited world " and economy ( oikonomia) (household management) Who are these Barbarians, are the Romans included with their Pecunia non olet (assumed to be said by the Emperor Vespasian) ? Barbarians are not beauty-lovers they are money-lovers.
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