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• catalog abstract "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 of the most significant features of Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy: the representation of ritual and of codes of reciprocity. Both genres are pervaded by these features, yet each treats them in very different ways. In this book, Dr Seaford shows that these differences cannot be accounted for in merely literary terms, but require a historical explanation. Homer is a product of the city state at an earlier historical stage than is tragedy. It is the growth of the city-state and its concomitant developments - in particular of law and of money, as well as in the practice of ritual - that provide a key to the crystallization of the Homeric narrative tradition, to the specificity of tragedy, and to certain features of the thought of the period. In the case of reciprocity, again whether the positive reciprocity associated with gift exchange or the hostile reciprocity of revenge - the systematic distinctions between Homer and tragedy can be explained only from a historical perspective. In its characteristic movement tragedy reflects and confirms the transition from one kind of society towards another: from a network of reciprocal relations, characteristic of societies where the state is weak or absent, to the organization of citizens around a single centre or series of centres - the institutions and cults of the city-state. Challenging, thoroughly lucid, and at times controversial, this lively, original yet accessible work is the first to attempt to understand the development of early Greek literature from the perspective of state formation. It should make enlivening and important reading for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the history or the literature of classical Greece. All Greek is translated.".
• catalog contributor b5701442.
• catalog coverage "Greece Civilization.".
• catalog coverage "Greece In literature.".
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description "1. Polis, Household, and Reciprocity in Homer -- 2. Marriage, Sacrifice, and Reciprocity in Homer -- 3. Death Ritual and Reciprocal Violence in the Polis -- 4. Collective Death Ritual -- 5. Death Ritual in the Iliad -- 6. The Transformation of Reciprocity -- 7. Dionysos and the Polis -- 8. Transformations of the Dionysiac Sacrifice -- 9. The Dionysiac in Homer and in Tragedy -- 10. Reciprocity and Ritual in Tragedy.".
• catalog description "Both genres are pervaded by these features, yet each treats them in very different ways. In this book, Dr Seaford shows that these differences cannot be accounted for in merely literary terms, but require a historical explanation. Homer is a product of the city state at an earlier historical stage than is tragedy. It is the growth of the city-state and its concomitant developments - in particular of law and of money, as well as in the practice of ritual - that provide a key to the crystallization of the Homeric narrative tradition, to the specificity of tragedy, and to certain features of the thought of the period. In the case of reciprocity, again whether the positive reciprocity associated with gift exchange or the hostile reciprocity of revenge - the systematic distinctions between Homer and tragedy can be explained only from a historical perspective.".
• catalog description "In its characteristic movement tragedy reflects and confirms the transition from one kind of society towards another: from a network of reciprocal relations, characteristic of societies where the state is weak or absent, to the organization of citizens around a single centre or series of centres - the institutions and cults of the city-state. Challenging, thoroughly lucid, and at times controversial, this lively, original yet accessible work is the first to attempt to understand the development of early Greek literature from the perspective of state formation. It should make enlivening and important reading for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the history or the literature of classical Greece. All Greek is translated.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [406]-435) and indexes.".
• catalog description "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 of the most significant features of Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy: the representation of ritual and of codes of reciprocity.".
• catalog extent "xix, 455 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0198149492 (alk. paper) :".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Greece Civilization.".
• catalog spatial "Greece In literature.".
• catalog spatial "Greece.".
• catalog subject "880.9/001 20".
• catalog subject "Dionysus (Greek deity) Cult.".
• catalog subject "Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Greek drama (Tragedy) History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Greek literature History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Homer Contemporary Greece.".
• catalog subject "Homer Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "Literature and anthropology Greece.".
• catalog subject "PA3052 .S43 1994".
• catalog subject "Ritual in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Polis, Household, and Reciprocity in Homer -- 2. Marriage, Sacrifice, and Reciprocity in Homer -- 3. Death Ritual and Reciprocal Violence in the Polis -- 4. Collective Death Ritual -- 5. Death Ritual in the Iliad -- 6. The Transformation of Reciprocity -- 7. Dionysos and the Polis -- 8. Transformations of the Dionysiac Sacrifice -- 9. The Dionysiac in Homer and in Tragedy -- 10. Reciprocity and Ritual in Tragedy.".
• catalog title "Reciprocity and ritual : Homer and tragedy in the developing city-state / Richard Seaford.".
• catalog type "text".