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Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State - Clarendon Paperbacks Seaford, Richard (Reader in Greek Literature, Reader in Greek Literature, University of Exeter)
Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State - Clarendon Paperbacks
Seaford, Richard (Reader in Greek Literature, Reader in Greek Literature, University of Exeter)
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 the most significant hallmarks in Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy: the representation of ritual and codes of reciprocity.
474 pages, bibliography
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 20, 1995 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198150367 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 474 |
| Dimensions | 141 × 216 × 30 mm · 638 g |
| Language | English |