Money and the early Greek mind - Richard Seaford
Homer, philosophy, tragedy
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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, fundamental to Presocratic philosophy, and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from th...
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2004 Uitgever: University Press Cambridge 370 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0521539927 ISBN-13: 9780521539920Koop dit boek tweedehands
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