Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece

Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece

Selected Essays

Seaford, Richard; Bostock, Robert

Cambridge University Press

11/2018

498

Dura

Inglês

9781107171718

15 a 20 dias

940

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Foreword; Part I. Tragedy: General: 1. Homeric and tragic sacrifice; 2. Dionsysos as destroyer of the household: Homer, tragedy and the Polis; 3. Dionysos, money and drama; 4. Tragic money; 5. Tragic tyranny; 6. Aeschylus and the Unity of Opposites; Part II. Performance and the Mysteries: 7. The 'Hyporchema' of Pratinas; 8. The politics of the mystic; 9. Immortality, salvation and the elements; 10. Sophocles and the mysteries; Part III. Tragedy and Death Ritual: 11. The last bath of Agamemnon; 12. The destruction of limits in Sophocles' Electra; Part IV. Tragedy and Marriage: 13. The tragic wedding; 14. The structural problems of marriage in Euripides; Part V. New Testament: 15. 1 Corinthians 13.12: 'Through A Glass Darkly'; 16. Thunder, lightning and earthquake in the Bacchae and The Acts of The Apostles; Part VI. The Inner Self: 17. Monetisation and the genesis of the Western subject; 18. The fluttering soul; Part VII. Inida and Greece: 19. Why did the Greeks not have Karma?; Part VIII. Money and Modernity: 20. Form and money in Wagner's Ring and Aeschylean tragedy; 21. World without limits.