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100 1 _aSeaford, Richard,
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240 1 0 _aEssays.
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245 1 0 _aTragedy, ritual and money in ancient Greece :
_bselected essays /
_cRichard Seaford, University of Exeter ; edited with a foreword by Robert Bostock, University of New England, Australia.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2018.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 486 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Nov 2018).
520 _aRichard Seaford is one of the most original and provocative classicists of his age. This volume brings together a wide range of papers written with a single focus. Several are pioneering explorations of the tragic evocation and representation of rites of passage: mystic initiation, the wedding, and death ritual. Two papers focus on the shaping power of mystic initiation in two famous passages in the New Testament. The other key factor in the historical context of tragedy is the recent monetisation of Athens. One paper explores the presence of money in Greek tragedy, another the shaping influence of money on Wagner's Ring and on his Aeschylean model. Other papers reveal the influence of ritual and money on representations of the inner self, and on Greek and Indian philosophy. A final piece finds in Greek tragedy horror at the destructive unlimitedness of money that is still central to our postmodern world.
650 0 _aGreek literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aGreek drama (Tragedy)
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aRites and ceremonies in literature.
650 0 _aMoney in literature.
650 0 _aEconomics and literature
_zGreece.
700 1 _aBostock, Robert,
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781316761588
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