[1] Seaford published widely on Greek literature and religion, from Homer to the New Testament, and especially on the god Dionysos.
He argued that the introduction of coinage, which occurred around the end of the 7th century BCE, provided a crucial stimulus for the advent of Greek philosophy, in which a universal substance is (like money) transformed from and into everything else.
[citation needed] In 2005–2008 he was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a study of Aeschylus.
[citation needed] Seaford accepted the Palestinian request to support the international academic boycott of Israel and declined an invitation to review a book for the Israeli journal Scripta Classica Israelica.
In a report carried by the European Jewish Press he cited "the brutal and illegal expansionism and the slow-motion ethnic cleansing" by the state of Israel.