Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy

About this book

How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage. By transforming social relations, monetization contributed to the concepts of the universe as an impersonal system (fundamental to Presocratic philosophy) and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods, as found in tragedy.

Details

Format

Hardcover

ISBN-13

9780521832281

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

March 11, 2004

Pages

384

Weight

25.4 oz

Subject

Fiction