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Reciprocity and Ritual - Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State (Hardcover)
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Reciprocity and Ritual - Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State (Hardcover)
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This new synthesis combines anthropology, political and social
history, and the close reading of central Greek texts to account
for two of the most significant hallmarks in Homeric epic and
Athenian tragedy - the representation of ritual and codes of
reciprocity. Both genres are pervaded by these features, yet each
treats them in entirely different ways. In this book, Dr Seaford
shows that these differences cannot by accounted for in merely
literary terms, but require an historical explanation. Homer in its
final form is a product of the city-state at an earlier historical
stage than is tragedy. It is the growth of the city-state and its
concomitant developments - in particular of law and of money, as
well as in the practice of ritual - that provide a key to the
crystallization of the Homeric narrative tradition, to the
specificity of tragedy and to certain features of the thought of
the period. In the case of reciprocity, again - whether the
positive reciprocity associated with gift-giving or the hostile
reciprocity of revenge - the systematic distinctions between Homer
and tragedy can be explained only from an historical perspective.
In its characteristic movement tragedy reflect
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