Reciprocity and Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reciprocity and Ritual write by Richard Seaford. This book was released on 1994. Reciprocity and Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All Greek is translated."--BOOK JACKET.
Cosmology and the Polis
Cosmology and the Polis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cosmology and the Polis write by Richard Seaford. This book was released on 2012-01-12. Cosmology and the Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Money and the Early Greek Mind
Money and the Early Greek Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Money and the Early Greek Mind write by Richard Seaford. This book was released on 2004-03-11. Money and the Early Greek Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
King of Sacrifice
King of Sacrifice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook King of Sacrifice write by Sarah Hitch. This book was released on 2009. King of Sacrifice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. Hitch explores the structural and thematic importance of animal sacrifice as an expression of the quarrel between Akhilleus and Agamemnon through the differing perspectives of the primary narrative and character speech.
Serving Athena
Serving Athena - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Serving Athena write by Julia L. Shear. This book was released on 2021-03-11. Serving Athena available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In ancient Athens, the Panathenaia was the most important festival and was celebrated in honour of Athena from the middle of the sixth century BC until the end of the fourth century AD. This in-depth study examines how this all-Athenian celebration was an occasion for constructing identities and how it affected those identities. Since not everyone took part in the same way, this differential participation articulated individuals' relationships both to the goddess and to the city so that the festival played an important role in negotiating what it meant to be Athenian (and non-Athenian). Julia Shear applies theories of identity formation which were developed in the social sciences to the ancient Greek material and brings together historical, epigraphical, and archaeological evidence to provide a better understanding both of this important occasion and of Athenian identities over the festival's long history.
