Greece

44 chapters in all · about 2 h 26 min

Read chapter 1 free

All chapters (44)

1. A Handful of Spits　about 3 min
2. The King's Offering　about 3 min
3. Fire from the East　about 3 min
4. The Silver Coin of the Sea Turtle　about 4 min
5. The Three Scales　about 4 min
6. Heraldic Silver Coins　about 4 min
7. The Goddess and the Owl　about 4 min
8. Underground Athens　about 3 min
9. Ten Drachmas, or Two Hundred Ships?　about 4 min
10. Imperial Currency　about 4 min
11. Debased Coinage　about 4 min
12. The Examiner　about 3 min
13. Coinage is Nomos　about 3 min
14. Colt of Pegasus　about 4 min
15. The Splendor of the Decadrachm　about 4 min
16. The Engraver Who Signed His Name　about 4 min
17. Gold of the Mountain　about 3 min
18. World Currency　about 4 min
19. In the Name of a Dead King　about 4 min
20. From the Face of a God to the Face of a King　about 4 min
21. The Closed Purse　about 4 min
22. The Lightening Silver Coin　about 4 min
23. How a Table Became a Bank　about 3 min
24. The Conqueror's Silver, the City's Bronze　about 4 min
25. The Drachma Does Not Die　about 4 min
26. Money Born from Law　about 4 min
27. A Millennium of Purity and Debasement　about 3 min
28. A New Start at 20.5 Carats　about 3 min
29. The Sea of the Ducat　about 4 min
30. People Who Trade with Others' Coins　about 4 min
31. The Price of the Phoenix　about 4 min
32. The Bird from the Ashes　about 3 min
33. A Name Revived　about 4 min
34. Clinging to the Alliance　about 4 min
35. They went bankrupt　about 4 min
36. Banknotes, in half　about 4 min
37. Central Bank　about 4 min
38. The Rotary Press Pays the Occupation Costs　about 3 min
39. Only Gold Coins are the Yardstick　about 4 min
40. Fifty Billion to One　about 3 min
41. Twenty Years of the Thirty Drachmae　about 3 min
42. 340.750　about 4 min
43. Sixty Euros a Day　about 4 min
44. The Owl Has Returned　about 4 min

The history of money in Greece, read chapter by chapter with illustrated scenes. Narration is available too. The first chapter is open to all.