Reciprocity and Ritual

Richard Seaford

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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Reciprocity and Ritual edition · 2003 · Clarendon Press · 474 pages · 9780198150367
Reciprocity and ritual edition · 1994 · Clarendon Press · 455 pages
Reciprocity and Ritual edition · 1994 · Oxford University Press · 9781280763977

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