RICHARD SEAFORD was Emeritus Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Exeter until his death in 2023. His books include commentaries on Euripides' Cyclops and Bacchae as well as Reciprocity and Ritual (1994); Money and the Early Greek Mind (Cambridge, 2004); Cosmology and the Polis (Cambridge, 2012); and The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India (Cambridge, 2020).