TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seaford,Richard
AU  - Bostock,Robert
TI  - Tragedy, ritual and money in ancient Greece: selected essays 
SN  - 9781316761588 (ebook)
AV  - PA3061 .S43 2018
U1  - 880.9/001 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Greek literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Greek drama (Tragedy)
KW  - Rites and ceremonies in literature
KW  - Money in literature
KW  - Economics and literature
KW  - Greece
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Nov 2018)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316761588
ER  -