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Paperback Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State Book
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ISBN: 0198150369

ISBN13: 9780198150367

Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State

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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 treats them in entirely different ways. In this book, Seaford shows that these differences cannot be accounted...

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