Money and the early Greek mind, Homer, philosophy, tragedy, Richard Seaford
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Money and the early Greek mind, Homer, philosophy, tragedy, Richard Seaford
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Money and the early Greek mind
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
560089581
Responsibility statement
Richard Seaford
Series statement
Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Sub title
Homer, philosophy, tragedy
Summary
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.--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
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?
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Money & the Early Greek Mind
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- Philosophy, Ancient
- Money -- Greece
- Money in literature
- Economics in literature
- Economics and literature -- Greece
- Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.C
- Greek drama (Tragedy) + History and criticism
- Homer -- Knowledge -- Economics
- Epic poetry, Greek + History and criticism
- Greek literature + History and criticism
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- Philosophy, Ancient
- Money -- Greece
- Money in literature
- Economics in literature
- Economics and literature -- Greece
- Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.C
- Greek drama (Tragedy) + History and criticism
- Homer -- Knowledge -- Economics
- Epic poetry, Greek + History and criticism
- Greek literature + History and criticism
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