Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece

Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece
Title Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece PDF eBook
Author Richard Seaford
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 499
Release 2018-11-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1316772071

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Brings together a wide range of papers written with a single vision. Greek tragedy, the New Testament, representations of the inner self, Greek and Indian philosophy, Wagner: these seemingly disparate phenomena are analysed with special attention to the shaping influence of ritual and of money.

Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece

Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece
Title Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece PDF eBook
Author Richard Seaford
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 499
Release 2018-11-22
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1107171717

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Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner.

Money and the Early Greek Mind

Money and the Early Greek Mind
Title Money and the Early Greek Mind PDF eBook
Author Richard Seaford
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 386
Release 2004-03-11
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780521539920

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How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. By transforming social relations monetisation contributed to the ideas of the universe as an impersonal system, fundamental to Presocratic philosophy, and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods, as found in tragedy.

Reciprocity and Ritual

Reciprocity and Ritual
Title Reciprocity and Ritual PDF eBook
Author Richard Seaford
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 455
Release 1994
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780198149491

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All Greek is translated."--BOOK JACKET.

Cosmology and the Polis

Cosmology and the Polis
Title Cosmology and the Polis PDF eBook
Author Richard Seaford
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages
Release 2012-01-12
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1139504878

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This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy and in particular the tragedies of Aeschylus. Mikhail Bakhtin's pioneering use of the chronotope was in literary analysis. This study by contrast derives the variety of chronotopes manifest in Greek texts from the variety of socially integrative practices in the developing polis - notably reciprocity, collective ritual and monetised exchange. In particular, the Oresteia of Aeschylus embodies the reassuring absorption of the new and threatening monetised chronotope into the traditional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological myth. This argument includes the first ever demonstration of the profound affinities between Aeschylus and the (Presocratic) philosophy of his time.

The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and India

The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and India
Title The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and India PDF eBook
Author Richard Seaford
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 387
Release 2020
Genre History
ISBN 1108499554

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Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.

Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World

Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Title Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World PDF eBook
Author Sarah Hitch
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 351
Release 2017-08-24
Genre History
ISBN 110821004X

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This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole of antiquity and go beyond the Greek world to consider possible influences in Hittite Anatolia and Egypt, while an introduction to the burgeoning science of osteo-archaeology is provided. The twentieth-century emphasis on sacrifice as part of the Classical Greek polis system is challenged through consideration of various ancient perspectives on sacrifice as distinct from specific political or even Greek contexts. Many previously unexplored topics are covered, particularly the type of animals sacrificed and the spectrum of sacrificial ritual, from libations to lasting memorials of the ritual in art.