Aggregation and Antithesis in Ancient Greece

Traces a progressive and complex shift in Greece between the eight and fourth centuries BCE from aggregation to antithesis in literature, philosophy and visual art, and correlates this with the shift from a pre-monetary and pre-polis society to a monetised polis. Includes contrasts with Near Eastern society and art.

Sommario

1. Defining terms; 2. Homer; 3. Opposites in Ionian Cosmology; 4. Opposites in the cosmology of Magna Graecia; 5. Visual art from the Near East to Greece; 6. The fifth-century unity of opposites: historiography, tragedy and vase painting; 7. Plato.

Info autore

RICHARD SEAFORD was Emeritus Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Exeter until his death in 2023. His books include commentaries on Euripides' Cyclops and Bacchae as well as Reciprocity and Ritual (1994); Money and the Early Greek Mind (Cambridge, 2004); Cosmology and the Polis (Cambridge, 2012); and The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India (Cambridge, 2020).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Seaford Richard
• Editore: Cambridge Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009517577
• ISBN: 978-1-009-51757-7
• Illustrazioni: 20 colour illus., Raster, farbig, Worked examples or Exercises
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Antichità; Ancient Greece, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, History of Art, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, Ancient Greek style, 1st century, c 99 to c 1 BCE