Ritual and money among the ancient Greeks [sound recording] / [lecture by] Richard Seaford ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Ritual and money among the ancient Greeks [sound recording] / [lecture by] Richard Seaford ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Richard Seaford, professor of ancient Greek at the University of Exeter, England, discusses how the Greeks viewed the new power of money and why they considered it a threat to their ritual-based religion. Seaford focuses on texts that embody the collision of money with religious ritual, a collision that may, given the similarity between them, have involved a subtle synthesis. Ritual resembles money in that it is a detached, easily recognized, socially integrative paradigm, providing a persistent order for numerous potentially uncontrollable transactions. The first society in history to be pervasively monetized through coinage was the Greek polis of the 6th and 5th centuries B.C.

1 sound disc (110 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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