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Money and the early Greek mind : = Homer, philosophy, tragedy /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Money and the early Greek mind :/ Richard Seaford.
Reminder of title:	Homer, philosophy, tragedy /
remainder title:	Money & the Early Greek Mind
Author:	Seaford, Richard,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Greek literature - History and criticism. -
Subject:	Greece - Emigration and immigration. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483080
ISBN:	9780511483080 (ebook)

Money and the early Greek mind : = Homer, philosophy, tragedy /
Seaford, Richard,

Money and the early Greek mind :Homer, philosophy, tragedy /Money & the Early Greek MindRichard Seaford. - 1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Homeric transactions -- Sacrifice and distribution -- Greece and the Ancient Near East -- Greek money -- The preconditions of coinage -- The earliest coinage -- The features of money -- Did politics produce philosophy? -- Anaximander and Xenophanes -- The many and the one -- Heraclitus and Parmenides -- Pythagoreanism and Protagoras -- Individualisation -- Was money used in the early Near East?

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 (presocratic philosophy) and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods (in tragedy). Seaford argues that an important precondition for this monetisation was the Greek practice of animal sacrifice, as represented in Homeric Epic, which describes a premonetary world on the point of producing money. This book combines social history, economic anthropology, numismatics and the close reading of literary, inscriptional, and philosophical texts. Questioning the origins and shaping force of Greek philosophy, this is a major book with wide appeal.

ISBN: 9780511483080 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

868419
Homer
--Influence.Subjects--Topical Terms:

555345
Greek literature
--History and criticism.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

571770
Greece
--Emigration and immigration.

LC Class. No.: PA3015.M64 / S43 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 880.9/3553

Money and the early Greek mind : = Homer, philosophy, tragedy /
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