Money and the Early Greek Mind : Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy
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'This book is of wider relevance than just to teachers and students of classics, for whom it affords an invaluable resource. It relates to all of us who, as Seaford says, 'live in a world in which the monetisation first observable in the Greek polis has had several centuries to develop ....' The Lecturer
'This book is a tour de force ... It is set to become a compulsory reading for all serious students and scholars of Greek thought.' The Journal of Classics Teaching
Book Description
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.
Money and the Early Greek Mind : Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy
Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy,Richard Seaford,Cambridge University Press,0521539927,Ancient - Greece,Classics,Epic poetry, Greek,Greek drama (Tragedy),Greek literature,History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical,History and criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Money in literature,Philosophy,Ancient (Classical) Greek,Ancient Greek & Roman philosophy,History / General,Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
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