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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I SHOULD LIKE to render thanks to the many friends and colleagues who gave so generously of their time and expertise to aid the researching and writing of this volume. I have tried to do justice to their suggestions and to correct or adjust where they have criticized. The reader willbe the best judge of my success. In a far-ranging and synthetic work such as this, lacking any direct forerunner, I have had to make difficult (at least, to me) choices about the order ofpresentation and about the inclusion or exclusion of topics and supporting material. I apologize that I have not always adhered to the advice of my correspondentsoffered to me at the cost of considerable exertion on their part-whether my failure was owed to the persuasion of other interlocutors or to my own hard-headed determination to cleave to a different ordering of the evidence and argument. The earliest draft of this work was generously and helpfully read by John H. Kroll of the University of Texas at Austin, by Thomas R. Martin, then of Pomona College and now of Holy Cross College, and by Malcolm B. Wallace of the University of Toronto. I should like to restate here the gratitude that I have expressed in other acknowledgments for the consistent support offered me over the years by Mac Wallace, who has helped me with his advice concerning so many of my projects over the last twenty years. A much longer second draft was read in its entirety by A. John Graham, an emeritus professor of the University of Pennsylvania, who kindly provided me with many pages of criticisms, corrections, and suggestions. Another colleague, Mabel Lang, an emerita of Bryn Mawr College, undertook the same onerous task and was good enough to annotate my text most helpfully. Jack Kroll again showed great patience, not only in rereading this second draft closely but also in answering specific questions about (and supplying work in progress on) Athenian coinage, about which he is our greatest expert. In the midst of appraising my very different views on matters to which he had already made important contributions, Jack showed an exemplary balance between receptivity and advocacy. This work would be much the poorer without his intervention at many stages. Martin Ostwald, emeritus of both Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania, has been a friend and mentor since the xviii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS years of my graduate studies, offering in this case sage criticism about the beginning ofthe second draft. Ernst Badian ofHarvard University, whose patronage I readily acknowledge, took time out of his many commitments to read much of the second draft and to offer his thoughts, incisive and learned as always. Leslie Beer-Tobey aided this project by offering advice about the treatment of Aiginetan coinage and about numismatic metallurgy. I thank her also for making her fine dissertation available to me. These are merely the latest in a succession of her kindnesses to me, going back to the time when Colin Kraay introduced us at Oxford in 1976. The late David Lewis of Oxford University, who will be much missed by all students of Athenian history, kindly answered several questions about IG 13 1453 and provided part of his apparatus before the publication of the second fascicle of IG 13 • Dr. Andrey Eryomin, taking time from his Fulbright fellowship work in Spartan history, and his wife Kira, both of Samara State University in Russia, generously aided me with exposition and translation of Russian scholarship in epigraphy and metrology. Jonathan H. Kagan worked through the rewritten numismatic chapters, adducing invaluable amplifications, corrections, and clarifications. Jon Kagan has also been most generous in sharing with me his work in progress, as I have noted in my text, and in directing me to additional bibliography, sometimes providing the material out of his own personal library and offprints. Brunilde S. Ridgway, emerita of Bryn Mawr College, helped me with the Oxford and Salamis metrological reliefs, which assistance I acknowledge here. w.T. Loomis generously provided some of the scholarship from his forthcoming work on prices and salaries in the classical period. This monograph was researched at several libraries whose staffs I should like to thank collectively: the Rutgers University libraries, and especially the staff of the Alexander library and its interlibrary loan office; the Princeton University libraries and particularly the persons staffing the Firestone and Marquand libraries; the library of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and its director, Dr. Eliot Shore...

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