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Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Reciprocity and Ritual Homer and Tragedy in the Developing CityState - Clarendon Paperbacks
Author: Richard Seaford
This is an exciting and entirely new synthesis, combining anthropology, political and social history, and a close reading of central Greek texts, to account for two of the most significant hallmarks in Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy: the representation of ritual, and codes of reciprocity. Both genres are pervaded by these features, yet each t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198150367
ISBN-10: 0198150369
Publication Date: 7/29/1995
Pages: 480
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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