Reciprocity and Ritual Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State |
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| Author:
| Seaford, Richard |
| Series title: | Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-815036-7 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1995 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $88.00 |
Book Description:
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This is an exciting and entirely new synthesis, combining anthropology, political and social history, and the close reading of central Greek texts, to account for two the most significant hallmarks in Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy: the representation of ritual and codes of reciprocity.
This is an exciting and entirely new synthesis, combining anthropology, political and social history, and the close reading of central Greek texts, to account for two the most significant hallmarks in Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy: the representation of ritual and codes of reciprocity.