| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-362) and index. |
| Contents |
Homeric transactions -- Sacrifice and distribution -- Greece and the Ancient Near East -- Greek money -- The preconditions of coinage -- The earliest coinage -- The features of money -- Did politics produce philosophy? -- Anaximander and Xenophanes -- The many and the one -- Heraclitus and Parmenides -- Pythagoreanism and Protagoras -- Individualisation -- Was money used in the early Near East? |
| Summary |
How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Homer -- Knowledge and learning -- Economics.
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Homer. |
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Economics. |
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Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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Greek literature. |
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Money in literature.
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Money in literature. |
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Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
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Greek drama (Tragedy) |
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Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
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Epic poetry, Greek. |
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Economics and literature -- Greece.
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Economics and literature. |
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Greece. |
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Economics in literature.
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Economics in literature. |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient. |
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Money -- Greece.
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Money. |
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Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.C.
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C |
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To 146 B.C. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Seaford, Richard. Money and the early Greek mind. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2003055724 |
| ISBN |
0511186789 |
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9780511186783 |
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9780511187711 |
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0511187718 |
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9780521539920 (paperback) |
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0521539927 (paperback) |
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9780521832281 |
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0521832284 |
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0511185871 (electronic book) |
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9780511185878 (electronic book) |
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0511185049 (electronic book) |
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9780511185045 (electronic book) |
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9780511483080 (ebook) |
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0511483082 (ebook) |
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1280449535 |
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9781280449536 |
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9786610449538 |
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6610449538 |
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0511187718 |
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0521539927 (paperback) |
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0521832284 |
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