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Most recent papers by Richard Seaford. If you would like a copy of a paper not on academia.edu email me at r.a.s.seaford@ex.ac.uk2022- 'Union with the Divine in Greece and India: Mysteries and Monetisation', in E. Pachoumi (ed.), Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds. Brill, 2022. Ps. 186-207.- 'Violence, peace and verbal style in the Iliad' in Lampas 55.1 (2022) 9-272021- 'Six Obstacles to Understanding Aeschylus', in Revista Dramaturgias 17 (2021) 10-22.- 'Ritual in Agamemnon', in D. Stuttard (ed.) Looking at Agamemnon. London: Bloomsury Academic, ps. 69-76.- 'Urban Centre and Mountainous Periphery in Dionysiac Drama', in A. Antonopoulos, M. Christopoulos and G. Harrison (eds.) Reconstructing Satyr Drama. Berlin: De Gruyter, ps. 101-12.- 'The politics of Euripides’ Bacchae and the preconception o firresolvable contradiction', in Filip Doroszewski and Dariusz Karlowicz, Dionysus and Politics Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World. Routledge. ps. 18-31.
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Papers by Richard Seaford
Critique of Thibodeau's recent redating of the presocratic philosophers
Popular Tyranny, 2003
The representation of tyranny in Athenian tragedy
Classical Association, 2009
The intellectual and cultural contribution that ancient Greece can make to our battle for survival
Journal of Theological Studies, 1984
The origin of a famous Christian phrase in pagan mystic initiation
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus, 2018
The influence of Aeschylus on Wagner
Dramaturgias, 2021
On the concealed relevance to today's politics of Greek Tragedy
Dramaturgias, 2021
On the concealed relevance for politics today of Athenian tragedy
The Sacred and the Feminine , 1998
The significance of the mirror for Dionysiac initiation, neoplatonism, and Lacanian theory.
Dionysus and Politics, 2021
A critique of the mainstream preconception that the Bacchae expresses irresolveable contradiction
unpublishd
Comparison of Iliad 24 and Antigone to Israel's denial of burial to Palestinians
Reconstructing Satyr Drama, 2021
unpublished
This paper describes and attempts to explain the striking similarities (and differences) between ... more This paper describes and attempts to explain the striking similarities (and differences) between ancient Greek and ancient Indian philosophical cosmology. The standard explanation in terms of intellectual 'influence' is rejected in favour of the factor of monetisation. Apart from the Greek polis, the towns of northern India were the earliest places on earth to be pervaded by coinage (with the possible exception of China). In both cultures the relation between the universal abstract principle (Being, Brahman, karma) and reincarnation is a cosmisation of the dual essence of money, what Marx calls the 'contradiction' between its hoarding and its circulation.
The Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature, ed. E. Papadodima, 2020
Critique of Thibodeau's recent redating of the presocratic philosophers
Popular Tyranny, 2003
The representation of tyranny in Athenian tragedy
Classical Association, 2009
The intellectual and cultural contribution that ancient Greece can make to our battle for survival
Journal of Theological Studies, 1984
The origin of a famous Christian phrase in pagan mystic initiation
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus, 2018
The influence of Aeschylus on Wagner
Dramaturgias, 2021
On the concealed relevance to today's politics of Greek Tragedy
Dramaturgias, 2021
On the concealed relevance for politics today of Athenian tragedy
The Sacred and the Feminine , 1998
The significance of the mirror for Dionysiac initiation, neoplatonism, and Lacanian theory.
Dionysus and Politics, 2021
A critique of the mainstream preconception that the Bacchae expresses irresolveable contradiction
unpublishd
Comparison of Iliad 24 and Antigone to Israel's denial of burial to Palestinians
Reconstructing Satyr Drama, 2021
unpublished
This paper describes and attempts to explain the striking similarities (and differences) between ... more This paper describes and attempts to explain the striking similarities (and differences) between ancient Greek and ancient Indian philosophical cosmology. The standard explanation in terms of intellectual 'influence' is rejected in favour of the factor of monetisation. Apart from the Greek polis, the towns of northern India were the earliest places on earth to be pervaded by coinage (with the possible exception of China). In both cultures the relation between the universal abstract principle (Being, Brahman, karma) and reincarnation is a cosmisation of the dual essence of money, what Marx calls the 'contradiction' between its hoarding and its circulation.
The Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature, ed. E. Papadodima, 2020
A critique of Philip Thibodeau's recent redating of the presocratic philosophers
