Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy

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.

Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/19/2004
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.18w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780521539920

About the Author
Seaford, Richard: - Richard Seaford is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Exeter. He is the author of commentaries on Euripides' 'Cyclops' (1984) and 'Bacchae' (1996) and of 'Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State' (1994).

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