52. L. Kurke, Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), 4–9; Pollard, Birds in Greek Life and Myth, 141–142; C. Seltman, A Book of Greek Coins (London: Penguin Books, 1952), 11; C. Seltman, Greek Coins (London: Thames and Hudson, 1966), 296–297. 53. Ehrlich, Dobkin, and Wheye, Birder’s Handbook, 639. 54. A seer in the play described the “happy omen” when Greek troops under two kings marched headed off to fight the Trojans: “They got a happy omen--two eagles, kings of birds, appeared before the kings of ships. One bird was black, the other’s tail was white, here, close to the palace, on the right, in a place where everyone could see. The eagles were gorging themselves, devouring a pregnant hare and all its unborn offspring, struggling in their death throes still. . . . Then the army’s prophet, Calchas, observing the twin purposes in the two warlike sons of Atreus, saw the twin leaders of the army in those birds devouring the hare. He then interpreted the omen, saying, “In due course this expedition will capture Priam’s city, Troy.” The play is available in book form, of course, and at http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/aeschylus/aeschylus_agamemnon.htm (accessed August 17, 2004).