Money and the early Greek mind [electronic resource] : Homer, philosophy, tragedy / Richard Seaford.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: xii, 370 pSubject(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.C
- PA3015.M64 S43 2004eb
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?
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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