Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521832281)

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.

Author: Richard Seaford
ISBN-10: 0521832284
ISBN-13: 9780521832281
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/11/2004
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.94w x 1.11d