Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107171717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner.
Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece
Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107171717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107171717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner.
Money and the Early Greek Mind
Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521539920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521539920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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.
Reciprocity and Ritual
Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198149491
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
All Greek is translated."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198149491
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
All Greek is translated."--BOOK JACKET.
Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece
Author: Mark William Padilla
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754184
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This volume reflects on liminality as it relates to initiatory themes in Greek literature and on literary works, especially tragedy, that represent heroes and heroines undergoing rites of passage. Featured works include Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Euripides' Ion and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Sophocles' Antigone and Women of Trachis.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754184
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This volume reflects on liminality as it relates to initiatory themes in Greek literature and on literary works, especially tragedy, that represent heroes and heroines undergoing rites of passage. Featured works include Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Euripides' Ion and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Sophocles' Antigone and Women of Trachis.
The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and India
Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.
Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece
Author: Dennis D. Hughes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134966393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Numerous ancient texts describe human sacrifices and other forms of ritual killing: in 480 BC Themistocles sacrifices three Persian captives to Dionysus; human scapegoats called pharmakoi are expelled yearly from Greek cities, and according to some authors they are killed; Locrin girls are hunted down and slain by the Trojans; on Mt Lykaion children are sacrificed and consumed by the worshippers; and many other texts report human sacrifices performed regularly in the cult of the gods or during emergencies such as war and plague. Archaeologists have frequently proposed human sacrifice as an explanation for their discoveries: from Minoan Crete children's bones with knife-cut marks, the skeleton of a youth lying on a platform with a bronze blade resting on his chest, skeletons, sometimes bound, in the dromoi of Mycenaean and Cypriot chamber tombs; and dual man-woman burials, where it is suggested that the woman was slain or took her own life at the man's funeral. If the archaeologists' interpretations and the claims in the ancient sources are accepted, they present a bloody and violent picture of the religious life of the ancient Greeks, from the Bronze Age well into historical times. But the author expresses caution. In many cases alternative, if less sensational, explanations of the archaeological are possible; and it can often be shown that human sacrifices in the literary texts are mythical or that late authors confused mythical details with actual practices.Whether the evidence is accepted or not, this study offers a fascinating glimpse into the religious thought of the ancient Greeks and into changing modern conceptions of their religious behaviour.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134966393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Numerous ancient texts describe human sacrifices and other forms of ritual killing: in 480 BC Themistocles sacrifices three Persian captives to Dionysus; human scapegoats called pharmakoi are expelled yearly from Greek cities, and according to some authors they are killed; Locrin girls are hunted down and slain by the Trojans; on Mt Lykaion children are sacrificed and consumed by the worshippers; and many other texts report human sacrifices performed regularly in the cult of the gods or during emergencies such as war and plague. Archaeologists have frequently proposed human sacrifice as an explanation for their discoveries: from Minoan Crete children's bones with knife-cut marks, the skeleton of a youth lying on a platform with a bronze blade resting on his chest, skeletons, sometimes bound, in the dromoi of Mycenaean and Cypriot chamber tombs; and dual man-woman burials, where it is suggested that the woman was slain or took her own life at the man's funeral. If the archaeologists' interpretations and the claims in the ancient sources are accepted, they present a bloody and violent picture of the religious life of the ancient Greeks, from the Bronze Age well into historical times. But the author expresses caution. In many cases alternative, if less sensational, explanations of the archaeological are possible; and it can often be shown that human sacrifices in the literary texts are mythical or that late authors confused mythical details with actual practices.Whether the evidence is accepted or not, this study offers a fascinating glimpse into the religious thought of the ancient Greeks and into changing modern conceptions of their religious behaviour.
The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond
Author: Eric Csapo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521836824
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Publisher description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521836824
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Publisher description
Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Efi Papadodima
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695626
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The volume offers new insights into the intricate theme of silence in Greek literature, especially drama. Even though the topic has received respectable attention in recent years, it still lends itself to further inquiry, which embraces silence's very essence and boundaries; its applications and effects in particular texts or genres; and some of its technical features and qualities. The particular topics discussed extend to all these three areas of inquiry, by looking into: silence's possible role in the performance of epic and lyric; its impact on the workings of praise-poetry; its distinct deployments in our five complete ancient novels; Aristophanic, comic and otherwise, silences; the vocabulary of the unspeakable in tragedy; the connections of tragic silence to power, authority, resistance, and motivation; female tragic silences and their transcendence, against the background of male oppression or domination; famous tragic silences as expressions of the ritualized isolation of the individual from both human and divine society. The emerging insights are valuable for the broader interpretation of the relevant texts, as well as for the fuller understanding of central values and practices of the society that created them.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695626
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The volume offers new insights into the intricate theme of silence in Greek literature, especially drama. Even though the topic has received respectable attention in recent years, it still lends itself to further inquiry, which embraces silence's very essence and boundaries; its applications and effects in particular texts or genres; and some of its technical features and qualities. The particular topics discussed extend to all these three areas of inquiry, by looking into: silence's possible role in the performance of epic and lyric; its impact on the workings of praise-poetry; its distinct deployments in our five complete ancient novels; Aristophanic, comic and otherwise, silences; the vocabulary of the unspeakable in tragedy; the connections of tragic silence to power, authority, resistance, and motivation; female tragic silences and their transcendence, against the background of male oppression or domination; famous tragic silences as expressions of the ritualized isolation of the individual from both human and divine society. The emerging insights are valuable for the broader interpretation of the relevant texts, as well as for the fuller understanding of central values and practices of the society that created them.
A Companion to Aeschylus
Author: Peter Burian
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405188049
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS In A Companion to Aeschylus, a team of eminent Aeschyleans and brilliant younger scholars delivers an insightful and original multi-authored examination—the first comprehensive one in English—of the works of the earliest surviving Greek tragedian. This book explores Aeschylean drama, and its theatrical, historical, philosophical, religious, and socio-political contexts, as well as the receptions and influence of Aeschylus from antiquity to the present day. This companion offers readers thorough examinations of Aeschylus as a product of his time, including his place in the early years of the Athenian democracy and his immediate and ongoing impact on tragedy. It also provides comprehensive explorations of all the surviving plays, including Prometheus Bound, which many scholars have concluded is not by Aeschylus. A Companion to Aeschylus is an ideal resource for students encountering the work of Aeschylus for the first time as well as more advanced scholars seeking incisive treatment of his individual works, their cultural context and their enduring significance. Written in an accessible format, with the Greek translated into English and technical terminology avoided as much as possible, the book belongs in the library of anyone looking for a fresh and authoritative account of works of continuing interest and importance to readers and theatre-goers alike.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405188049
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS In A Companion to Aeschylus, a team of eminent Aeschyleans and brilliant younger scholars delivers an insightful and original multi-authored examination—the first comprehensive one in English—of the works of the earliest surviving Greek tragedian. This book explores Aeschylean drama, and its theatrical, historical, philosophical, religious, and socio-political contexts, as well as the receptions and influence of Aeschylus from antiquity to the present day. This companion offers readers thorough examinations of Aeschylus as a product of his time, including his place in the early years of the Athenian democracy and his immediate and ongoing impact on tragedy. It also provides comprehensive explorations of all the surviving plays, including Prometheus Bound, which many scholars have concluded is not by Aeschylus. A Companion to Aeschylus is an ideal resource for students encountering the work of Aeschylus for the first time as well as more advanced scholars seeking incisive treatment of his individual works, their cultural context and their enduring significance. Written in an accessible format, with the Greek translated into English and technical terminology avoided as much as possible, the book belongs in the library of anyone looking for a fresh and authoritative account of works of continuing interest and importance to readers and theatre-goers alike.
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Author: Sarah Hitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521191033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Experts in Greek language, literature and material culture re-examine the role of animal sacrifice in Greek life across the Mediterranean.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521191033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Experts in Greek language, literature and material culture re-examine the role of animal sacrifice in Greek life across the Mediterranean.