All Greek is translated."--BOOK JACKET.

This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chr

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 fo

Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. Hitch explores the structural and thema

Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cul