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This volume brings together Hellenists and Indologists representing a variety of perspectives on the similarities and differences between the two cultures. It offers a collaborative contribution to the burgeoning interest in the Axial Age and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the big questions inspired by the ancient world.

Self --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- India --- Greece --- Civilization --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Personal identity --- Consciousness --- Individuality --- Mind and body --- Personality --- Thought and thinking --- Will --- Philosophy, Indic. --- Indic philosophy --- Philosophy, East Indian --- Hindu philosophy --- History / Ancient / Greece --- Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical --- History / Asia / India & South Asia --- Philosophy

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This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy and in particular the tragedies of Aeschylus. Mikhail Bakhtin's pioneering use of the chronotope was in literary analysis. This study by contrast derives the variety of chronotopes manifest in Greek texts from the variety of socially integrative practices in the developing polis - notably reciprocity, collective ritual and monetised exchange. In particular, the Oresteia of Aeschylus embodies the reassuring absorption of the new and threatening monetised chronotope into the traditional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological myth. This argument includes the first ever demonstration of the profound affinities between Aeschylus and the (Presocratic) philosophy of his time.

Cosmology in literature. --- Space and time in literature. --- Social interaction in literature. --- Money in literature. --- Ritual in literature. --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Cosmologie dans la littérature --- Espace et temps dans la littérature --- Interaction sociale dans la littérature --- Monnaie dans la littérature --- Rituel dans la littérature --- Tragédie grecque --- Philosophie ancienne --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Aeschylus --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Thematology --- Drama --- Cosmologie dans la littérature --- Espace et temps dans la littérature --- Interaction sociale dans la littérature --- Monnaie dans la littérature --- Rituel dans la littérature --- Tragédie grecque --- Cosmology in literature --- Money in literature --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ritual in literature --- Social interaction in literature --- Space and time in literature --- Space and time as a theme in literature --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- History and criticism --- Aischylos --- Eschilo --- Eschyle --- Eschylus --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Eskhil --- Esquilo --- Aiskhilos --- Eshil --- Æskílos --- Ajschylos --- Eschil --- Esḳilos --- Äschylos --- Eskili --- Aiszkhülosz --- Eschylos --- Iskilos --- Эсхил --- אייסכילוס --- איסכילאס --- איסכילוס --- إيسخولوس --- ايسخيلوس --- Αἰσχύλος

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Richard Seaford is one of the most original and provocative classicists of his age. This volume brings together a wide range of papers written with a single focus. Several are pioneering explorations of the tragic evocation and representation of rites of passage: mystic initiation, the wedding, and death ritual. Two papers focus on the shaping power of mystic initiation in two famous passages in the New Testament. The other key factor in the historical context of tragedy is the recent monetisation of Athens. One paper explores the presence of money in Greek tragedy, another the shaping influence of money on Wagner's Ring and on his Aeschylean model. Other papers reveal the influence of ritual and money on representations of the inner self, and on Greek and Indian philosophy. A final piece finds in Greek tragedy horror at the destructive unlimitedness of money that is still central to our postmodern world.

Greek literature --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Rites and ceremonies in literature --- Money in literature --- Economics and literature --- Literature --- Literature and economics --- History and criticism --- Economic aspects --- E-books --- Economics and literature. --- Greek drama (Tragedy). --- Greek literature. --- Money in literature. --- Rites and ceremonies in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Greece.