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Essays.
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Seaford, Richard
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Tragedy, ritual, and money in ancient Greece : : selected essays /\ Richard Seaford, University of Exeter ; edited with a foreword by Robert Bostock, University of New England, Australia.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2018.
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, ©2018
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1 online resource (xii, 486 pages)
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1316761584
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: 1316774244
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: 9781316761588
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: 9781316774243
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1107171717
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9781107171718
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9781316622896
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Foreword; Part I Tragedy: General; Chapter 1 Homeric and Tragic Sacrifice; Postscript; Chapter 2 Dionysos as Destroyer of the Household: Homer, Tragedy and the Polis; 1. Maenadic Andromakhe in the Iliad; 2. Maenadic Andromakhe and Wedding Ritual; 3. Maenadic Antigone and Wedding Ritual; 4. Maenadism and Marriage Ritual; 5. Euadne; 6. Iole; 7. Kassandra; 8. Three Generalisations; 9. Dionysos, Household and Polis; 10. Tragedy: A Dionysiac Pattern; 11. Homeric Exclusions; Postscript; Chapter 3 Dionysos, Money and Drama
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1. The Association of Prometheus with the Titans in His Parentage, Punishment and ReleaseThe Prometheia and Hesiod; The Mysticism of Magna Graecia; 2. The Cosmological Elements; The Prometheia; The Presocratics and Mystic Doctrine; 3. The Crowning of Prometheus; Postscript; Chapter 10 Sophocles and the Mysteries; Postscript; Part III Tragedy and Death Ritual; Chapter 11 The Last Bath of Agamemnon; Postscript; Chapter 12 The Destruction of Limits in Sophocles' Electra; Postscript; Part IV Tragedy and Marriage; Chapter 13 The Tragic Wedding; 1. Introductory; 2. The Girl About to Be Married
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3. The Death of the Wife4. The Extramarital Union; Postscript; Chapter 14 The Structural Problems of Marriage in Euripides; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; Postscript; Part V New Testament; Chapter 15 1 Corinthians 13.12: 'Through a Glass Darkly'; Postscript; Chapter 16 Thunder, Lightning and Earthquake in the Bacchae and the Acts of the Apostles; 1; 2; 3; Postscript; Part VI The Inner Self; Chapter 17 Monetisation and the Genesis of the Western Subject; Sohn-Rethel and the Transcendental Subject; The Homeric Psyche; Money and Psyche; Reincarnation; Parmenides and Plato; Postscript
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4. Differentiation of United Opposites in the Oresteia5. Permanent Resolution; Postscript; Part II Performance and the Mysteries; Chapter 7 The 'Hyporchema' of Pratinas; Postscript; Chapter 8 The Politics of the Mystic Chorus; 1. Capitalist Space; 2. Ancient Greek Processions; 3. The Mystic Chorus; 4. Cosmos and Mystic Chorus; 5. The Solidarity of the Mystic Chorus; 6. Chorus and Powerful Individual; 7. The Politicisation of the Dithyramb; 8. Public and Private Space; Chapter 9 Immortality, Salvation and the Elements
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Money and the Dionysiac ThiasosTragic Isolation; Postscript; Chapter 4 Tragic Money; 1. Introduction; 2. Does Money Have Limits?; 3. Aeschylus: Agamemnon; 4. Sophocles: Antigone; 5. Euripides: Electra; Postscript; Chapter 5 Tragic Tyranny; Three Tyrannical Characteristics; Prometheus Bound and Oresteia; Democratic Ideology; Does the Tyrant Embody the Polis? Antigone and Bacchae; Might the Tyrant Symbolise the Polis? Oedipus Tyrannus; Postscript; Chapter 6 Aeschylus and the Unity of Opposites; 1. Lamentation; 2. Mystic Initiation; 3. Mystery Cult, Lamentation, Tragedy
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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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Economics and literature-- Greece.
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Greek drama (Tragedy)-- History and criticism.
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Greek literature-- History and criticism.
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Money in literature.
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Rites and ceremonies in literature.
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Economics and literature.
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Greek drama (Tragedy)
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Greek literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Ancient Classical.
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Money in literature.
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Rites and ceremonies in literature.
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Greece.
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| Dewey Classification
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880.9/001
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PA3061.S43 2018eb
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Bostocke, Robert
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