04020nam 22008172 450 991045768010332120151005020622.01-107-14877-41-280-44953-50-511-18587-10-511-18504-90-511-18771-80-511-31375-60-511-48308-20-511-18678-9(CKB)1000000000353185(EBL)256701(OCoLC)560089581(SSID)ssj0000205123(PQKBManifestationID)11184326(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205123(PQKBWorkID)10208905(PQKB)11681886(UkCbUP)CR9780511483080(MiAaPQ)EBC256701(PPN)183066391(Au-PeEL)EBL256701(CaPaEBR)ebr10124683(CaONFJC)MIL44953(EXLCZ)99100000000035318520090224d2004|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMoney and the early Greek mind Homer, philosophy, tragedy /Richard Seaford[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2004.1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-53992-7 0-521-83228-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-362) and index.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?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.Money & the Early Greek MindGreek literatureHistory and criticismMoney in literatureGreek drama (Tragedy)History and criticismEpic poetry, GreekHistory and criticismEconomics and literatureGreeceEconomics in literaturePhilosophy, AncientMoneyGreeceGreeceEconomic conditionsTo 146 B.CGreek literatureHistory and criticism.Money in literature.Greek drama (Tragedy)History and criticism.Epic poetry, GreekHistory and criticism.Economics and literatureEconomics in literature.Philosophy, Ancient.Money880.9/3553Seaford Richard186449UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910457680103321Money and the early Greek mind1034945UNINA