Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Richard Seaford is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Exeter. He is the author of numerous papers and books on ancient Greek texts from Homer to the New Testament, among which are Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy (Cambridge, 2004) and Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus (Cambridge, 2012). He has a particular interest in uncovering the relationship between the economy, ritual, philosophy, and drama. He is currently completing a historical comparison of early Greek with early Indian thought. He has been a Fellow of the National Humanities Center (USA), a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and Honorary President of the British Classical Association. His research has been funded by the Leverhulme Foundation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Part I. Tragedy: General: 1. Homeric and tragic sacrifice 2. Dionsysos as destroyer of the household: Homer, tragedy and the Polis 3. Dionysos, money and drama 4. Tragic money 5. Tragic tyranny 6. Aeschylus and the Unity of Opposites Part II. Performance and the Mysteries: 7. The 'Hyporchema' of Pratinas 8. The politics of the mystic 9. Immortality, salvation and the elements 10. Sophocles and the mysteries Part III. Tragedy and Death Ritual: 11. The last bath of Agamemnon 12. The destruction of limits in Sophocles' Electra Part IV. Tragedy and Marriage: 13. The tragic wedding 14. The structural problems of marriage in Euripides Part V. New Testament: 15. 1 Corinthians 13.12: 'Through A Glass Darkly' 16. Thunder, lightning and earthquake in the Bacchae and The Acts of The Apostles Part VI. The Inner Self: 17. Monetisation and the genesis of the Western subject 18. The fluttering soul Part VII. Inida and Greece: 19. Why did the Greeks not have Karma? Part VIII. Money and Modernity: 20. Form and money in Wagner's Ring and Aeschylean tragedy 21. World without limits.
Foreword Part I. Tragedy: General: 1. Homeric and tragic sacrifice 2. Dionsysos as destroyer of the household: Homer, tragedy and the Polis 3. Dionysos, money and drama 4. Tragic money 5. Tragic tyranny 6. Aeschylus and the Unity of Opposites Part II. Performance and the Mysteries: 7. The 'Hyporchema' of Pratinas 8. The politics of the mystic 9. Immortality, salvation and the elements 10. Sophocles and the mysteries Part III. Tragedy and Death Ritual: 11. The last bath of Agamemnon 12. The destruction of limits in Sophocles' Electra Part IV. Tragedy and Marriage: 13. The tragic wedding 14. The structural problems of marriage in Euripides Part V. New Testament: 15. 1 Corinthians 13.12: 'Through A Glass Darkly' 16. Thunder, lightning and earthquake in the Bacchae and The Acts of The Apostles Part VI. The Inner Self: 17. Monetisation and the genesis of the Western subject 18. The fluttering soul Part VII. Inida and Greece: 19. Why did the Greeks not have Karma? Part VIII. Money and Modernity: 20. Form and money in Wagner's Ring and Aeschylean tragedy 21. World without limits.
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