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'Dionysos' is one of the most-studied ancient Greek gods for students and academics. He is popularly known as the god of wine and frenzied abandon, and has great significance for theatre -- drama, in fact, originated as part of the cult of Dionysos. However, Seaford's book covers a wider range of issues, such as mystery, cult and philosophy, which have been overlooked by many studies. As a volume in the 'Gods and Heroes 'series, this work will provide an indispensable introduction to the subject, or reference point for higher levels of study.

Comparative literature --- Dionysus (Greek deity) --- Gods, Greek --- Dionysos (Divinité grecque) --- Dieux grecs --- Dionysus (Greek deity). --- Dionysos (Divinité grecque) --- Dionysus

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How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. By transforming social relations, monetisation contributed to the ideas of the universe as an impersonal system (presocratic philosophy) and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods (in tragedy). Seaford argues that an important precondition for this monetisation was the Greek practice of animal sacrifice, as represented in Homeric Epic, which describes a premonetary world on the point of producing money. This book combines social history, economic anthropology, numismatics and the close reading of literary, inscriptional, and philosophical texts. Questioning the origins and shaping force of Greek philosophy, this is a major book with wide appeal.

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Greek literature --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Literature and anthropology --- Ritual in literature --- History and criticism --- Dionysus --- Homer --- Cult --- Criticism and interpretation --- Greece --- In literature --- Civilization --- Greek literature - History and criticism --- Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism --- Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism --- Literature and anthropology - Greece --- Dionysus - (Greek deity) - Cult --- Homer - Criticism and interpretation --- Greece - In literature --- Greece - Civilization --- Dionysus - (Greek deity)

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Why did Greek philosophy begin in the sixth century BCE? Why did Indian philosophy begin at about the same time? Why did the earliest philosophy take the form that it did? Why was this form so similar in Greece and India? And how do we explain the differences between them? These questions can only be answered by locating the philosophical intellect within its entire societal context, ignoring neither ritual nor economy. The cities of Greece and northern India were in this period distinctive also by virtue of being pervasively monetised. The metaphysics of both cultures is marked by the projection (onto the cosmos) and the introjection (into the inner self) of the abstract, all-pervasive, quasi-omnipotent, impersonal substance embodied in money (especially coinage). And in both cultures this development accompanied the interiorisation of the cosmic rite of passage (in India sacrifice, in Greece mystic initiation).

Philosophy, Ancient. --- Philosophy, Indic --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- History.

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