Reciprocity and Ritual
Original title: Reciprocity and ritual
earliest edition we have, 1994 Oxford University Press, 1994
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 of the most significant features of Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy: the representation of ritual and of codes of reciprocity. Both genres are pervaded by these features, yet each treats them in very different ways. In this book, Dr Seaford shows tha...
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