Money and the early Greek mind [electronic resource] : Homer, philosophy, tragedy / Richard Seaford.
By: Seaford, Richard.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xii, 370 p.Subject(s): Homer -- Knowledge -- Economics | Greek literature -- History and criticism | Money in literature | Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism | Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism | Economics and literature -- Greece | Economics in literature | Philosophy, Ancient | Money -- Greece | Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.CGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-362) and index.
Homeric transactions -- Sacrifice and distribution -- Greece and the Ancient Near East -- Greek money -- The preconditions of coinage -- The earliest coinage -- The features of money -- Did politics produce philosophy? -- Anaximander and Xenophanes -- The many and the one -- Heraclitus and Parmenides -- Pythagoreanism and Protagoras -- Individualisation -- Was money used in the early Near East?
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