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Author Seaford, Richard.

Title Cosmology and the polis : the social construction of space and time in the tragedies of Aeschylus / Richard Seaford.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Summary "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 embody the reassuring absorption of the new and threatening monetised chronotope into the traditional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological myth"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; COSMOLOGY AND THE POLIS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Map; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; A CHRONOTOPES AND COSMOLOGY; B CHRONOTOPES AND HISTORY; C PREVIOUS TREATMENTS; D SUMMARY; PART I: The social construction of space, time and cosmology; CHAPTER 1: Homer: The reciprocal chronotope; 1A HOMERIC SPACE; 1B HOMERIC TIME; 1C SOCIAL INTEGRATION; CHAPTER 2: Demeter Hymn: The aetiological chronotope; 2A THE SPACE OF RITUAL; 2B THE EMERGENCE OF THE POLIS; 2C SHARED SPACE; 2D THE OUTSIDER CREATES THE COMMUNITY; 2E THE AETIOLOGICAL CHRONOTOPE; 2F THE IAKCHOS PROCESSION.
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Subject Aeschylus -- Criticism and interpretation.
Aeschylus.
Criticism and interpretation.
Cosmology in literature.
Cosmology in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Social interaction in literature.
Social interaction in literature.
Money in literature.
Money in literature.
Ritual in literature.
Ritual in literature.
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Seaford, Richard. Cosmology and the polis. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107009271 (DLC) 2011041583 (OCoLC)753630544
ISBN 9781139224338 (electronic book)
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