LEADER 04020nam 22008172 450 001 9910457680103321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-14877-4 010 $a1-280-44953-5 010 $a0-511-18587-1 010 $a0-511-18504-9 010 $a0-511-18771-8 010 $a0-511-31375-6 010 $a0-511-48308-2 010 $a0-511-18678-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000353185 035 $a(EBL)256701 035 $a(OCoLC)560089581 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000205123 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11184326 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205123 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10208905 035 $a(PQKB)11681886 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511483080 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC256701 035 $a(PPN)183066391 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL256701 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10124683 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL44953 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000353185 100 $a20090224d2004|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMoney and the early Greek mind $eHomer, philosophy, tragedy /$fRichard Seaford$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-53992-7 311 $a0-521-83228-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 338-362) and index. 327 $aHomeric 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? 330 $aHow 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. 517 3 $aMoney & the Early Greek Mind 606 $aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMoney in literature 606 $aGreek drama (Tragedy)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEpic poetry, Greek$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEconomics and literature$zGreece 606 $aEconomics in literature 606 $aPhilosophy, Ancient 606 $aMoney$zGreece 607 $aGreece$xEconomic conditions$yTo 146 B.C 615 0$aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMoney in literature. 615 0$aGreek drama (Tragedy)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEpic poetry, Greek$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEconomics and literature 615 0$aEconomics in literature. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Ancient. 615 0$aMoney 676 $a880.9/3553 700 $aSeaford$b Richard$0186449 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457680103321 996 $aMoney and the early Greek mind$91034945 997 $aUNINA