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Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece - Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece - Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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Richard 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.
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