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| Author | : Richard Seaford |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 499 |
| Release | : 2018-11-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107171717 |
Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner.
| Author | : Richard Seaford |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2004-03-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780521539920 |
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.
| Author | : Richard Seaford |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 499 |
| Release | : 2018-11-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1316772071 |
Brings together a wide range of papers written with a single vision. Greek tragedy, the New Testament, representations of the inner self, Greek and Indian philosophy, Wagner: these seemingly disparate phenomena are analysed with special attention to the shaping influence of ritual and of money.
| Author | : Richard Seaford |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 2019-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108499554 |
Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.
| Author | : Richard Seaford |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 455 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780198149491 |
All Greek is translated."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Helene P. Foley |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2009-01-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1400824737 |
Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. She investigates three central and problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Her anthropological approach, together with her literary analysis, allows for an unusually rich context in which to understand gender relations in ancient Greece. This book examines, for example, the tragic response to legislation regulating family life that may have begun as early as the sixth century. It also draws upon contemporary studies of virtue ethics and upon feminist reconsiderations of the Western ethical tradition. Foley maintains that by viewing public issues through the lens of the family, tragedy asks whether public and private morality can operate on the same terms. Moreover, the plays use women to represent significant moral alternatives. Tragedy thus exploits, reinforces, and questions cultural clichés about women and gender in a fashion that resonates with contemporary Athenian social and political issues.
| Author | : Sarah Hitch |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2017-08-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110821004X |
This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole of antiquity and go beyond the Greek world to consider possible influences in Hittite Anatolia and Egypt, while an introduction to the burgeoning science of osteo-archaeology is provided. The twentieth-century emphasis on sacrifice as part of the Classical Greek polis system is challenged through consideration of various ancient perspectives on sacrifice as distinct from specific political or even Greek contexts. Many previously unexplored topics are covered, particularly the type of animals sacrificed and the spectrum of sacrificial ritual, from libations to lasting memorials of the ritual in art.
| Author | : Mark William Padilla |
| Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780838754184 |
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.
| Author | : Dennis D. Hughes |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134966393 |
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.
| Author | : Efi Papadodima |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2020-04-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110695626 |
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.
