| Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy Contributor(s): Seaford, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521832284 ISBN-13: 9780521832281 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage. By transforming social relations, monetization contributed to the concepts 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 880.935 |
| LCCN: 2003055724 |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 5.94" W x 9.3" (1.59 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
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Contributor Bio(s): Seaford, Richard: - Richard Seaford is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Exeter. He is the author of commentaries on Euripides' 'Cyclops' (1984) and 'Bacchae' (1996) and of 'Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State' (1994). |