Cosmology and the Polis

The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, History
Cover of the book Cosmology and the Polis by Richard Seaford, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Richard Seaford ISBN: 9781139209731
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: January 12, 2012
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Richard Seaford
ISBN: 9781139209731
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: January 12, 2012
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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 Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy 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 Oresteia 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. This argument includes the first ever demonstration of the profound affinities between Aeschylus and the (Presocratic) philosophy of his time.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy 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 Oresteia 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. This argument includes the first ever demonstration of the profound affinities between Aeschylus and the (Presocratic) philosophy of his time.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Governing Borderless Threats by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book Limited-Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book Conquering the Physics GRE by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book India's Late, Late Industrial Revolution by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to Descartes’ Meditations by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book Modern Plasma Physics: Volume 1, Physical Kinetics of Turbulent Plasmas by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book A Modern Course in Transport Phenomena by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book The Paradox of Professionalism by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg and the Foundation of Jewish Political Thought by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book Hodge Theory and Complex Algebraic Geometry I: Volume 1 by Richard Seaford
Cover of the book Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics by Richard Seaford
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy