Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of AeschylusCambridge University Press, 12 jan 2012 - 366 pagina's This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure and uncovers various such chronotopes in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and in particular the tragedies of Aeschylus. Mikhail Bakhtin's pioneering use of the chronotope was in literary analysis. This study by contrast derives the variety of chronotopes manifest in Greek texts from the variety of socially integrative practices in the developing polis - notably reciprocity, collective ritual, and monetised exchange. In particular, the tragedies of Aeschylus embodies the reassuring absorption of the new and threatening monetised chronotope into the traditional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological myth. |
Inhoudsopgave
B Chronotopes and history c Previous treatments | 8 |
From the unity of opposites to their differentiation | 15 |
the aetiological chronotope A The space | 24 |
From reciprocity to money A Polis cosmos and money | 52 |
DIONYSIAC FESTIVALS | 75 |
A Dionysia and dithyramb B Thebes as aetiological | 96 |
Monetisation and tragedy A The formalisation of | 106 |
Telos and the unlimitedness of money A Telos | 125 |
Persians A The setting B The return of Dareios | 206 |
I3 Formparallelism and the unity of opposites | 225 |
Aeschylus and IIerakleitos A The unity of opposites | 240 |
opposites coalesce c The opposites differentiated | 258 |
Metaphysics and the polis in Pythagoreanism A Various | 281 |
I7 Pythagoreanism in Aeschylus A The mediation | 335 |
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Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the ... Richard Seaford Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2012 |
Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the ... Richard Seaford Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2015 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
abstract Aeschylus aetiological chronotope Agamemnon agora altar Anaximander Argos arrival Athenian Athens Attica Bacchae benefit Choephoroi choral chorus chronotope City Dionysia conflict context contrast cosmic space cosmology cosmos crisis cult Danaids Dareios death ritual defined Demeter Hymn Dionysiac Dionysos dithyramb earth Eleusinian Eleusis embodies endogamy Erinues escort Eteokles Eumenides evokes expressed festival fifth century final finally fire first form-parallelism fratricide geographic space gods Greek Hades Herakleitos Homer identified imagined implies individual influenced instance introversion king Klutaimestra lament limit marriage monetised chronotope mystery-cult mystic initiation mystic ritual myth ofthe Oresteia Orestes Parker Peisistratos performance Persephone Persians polis political prefigured procession Prutaneion Pythagorean queen reciprocity reflects revenge ritualised royal house sacrifice sanctuary Seaford self-sufficiency Septem significance social Solon song spatial specific Suppliants supplication telos temple Theban Thebes thiasos tomb tragedy transition trilogy underworld unity of opposites unlimited unlimitedness violence wealth wedding Xerxes Zeus