Formerly at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina

Richard Seaford's magisterial study, Reciprocity and Rituals: ... must now ensure that commentators on Homer, tragedy and the emergent city-state will in future neglect ritual at their peril ... Seaford's theory is an impressive intellectual, subsuming every dimension of Greek society ... it will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most important woks on Greek religion and society to have appeared in the last quarter of this century.

• Polis, household and reciprocity in Homer; reciprocity, marriage and sacrifice in Homer; death ritual and reciprocal violence in the polis; collective death ritual; death ritual in the "Iliad"; the transformation of reciprocity; Dionysos and the polis; transformation of the Dionysiac sacrifice; the Dionysiac in Homer and in tragedy; reciprocity and ritual in tragedy.

Formerly at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina

Richard Seaford's magisterial study, Reciprocity and Rituals: ... must now ensure that commentators on Homer, tragedy and the emergent city-state will in future neglect ritual at their peril ... Seaford's theory is an impressive intellectual, subsuming every dimension of Greek society ... it will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most important woks on Greek religion and society to have appeared in the last quarter of this century.

• Polis, household and reciprocity in Homer; reciprocity, marriage and sacrifice in Homer; death ritual and reciprocal violence in the polis; collective death ritual; death ritual in the "Iliad"; the transformation of reciprocity; Dionysos and the polis; transformation of the Dionysiac sacrifice; the Dionysiac in Homer and in tragedy; reciprocity and ritual in tragedy.

Formerly at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina

Richard Seaford's magisterial study, Reciprocity and Rituals: ... must now ensure that commentators on Homer, tragedy and the emergent city-state will in future neglect ritual at their peril ... Seaford's theory is an impressive intellectual, subsuming every dimension of Greek society ... it will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most important woks on Greek religion and society to have appeared in the last quarter of this century.

• Polis, household and reciprocity in Homer; reciprocity, marriage and sacrifice in Homer; death ritual and reciprocal violence in the polis; collective death ritual; death ritual in the "Iliad"; the transformation of reciprocity; Dionysos and the polis; transformation of the Dionysiac sacrifice; the Dionysiac in Homer and in tragedy; reciprocity and ritual in tragedy.