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Author Seaford, Richard.

Title Money and the early Greek mind [electronic resource] : Homer, philosophy, tragedy / Richard Seaford.

Imprint Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 370 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 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?
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Homer -- Knowledge -- Economics.
Greek literature -- History and criticism.
Money in literature.
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
Economics and literature -- Greece.
Economics in literature.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Money -- Greece.
Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.C.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0511187718
0521539927 (pbk.)
0521832284

 
    
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