Richard Seaford
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Professor Richard Seaford, from the Department of Classics and Ancient History of the University of Exeter in England, is a British professor and a leading academic authority in the field of Classics. Over his career, his research interests have included Homer, Greek lyric poetry, Greek religion (in particular the cult of Dionysos), the earliest philosophy, Greek tragedy (in particular Euripides), Greek satyric drama, and the New Testament.
Professor Seaford is the author/co-author of six books and more than seventy scholarly articles. His key publications include: Pompeii (Constable, 1979), also available in French, German, and Italian; Euripides Cyclops with Introduction and Commentary (Oxford University Press, 1984); Reciprocity and Ritual. Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-state (Oxford University Press, 1994), also available in modern Greek; Euripides Bacchae (Aris and Phillips, 1996); Reciprocity in Ancient Greece (with C. Gill and N. Postlethwaite) (Oxford University Press, 1998); Money and the early Greek Mind: Homer, Tragedy, and Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Seaford participates, along with many British scholars, in the academic boycott of Israel. In May 2006 he has declined an invitation to write a book review for an Israeli journal.
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