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time, ritual, and agency in the Oresteia

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time, ritual, and agency in the Oresteia

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Lexington Books
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Subjects
Moral conditions in literature, Time in literature, Ancient Rhetoric, Ritual in literature, Agent (Philosophy) in literature, Ethics in literature, Political and social views, Greek literature, history and criticism
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Chronos on the threshold: time, ritual, and agency in the Oresteia
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Time in classics; Ritual structure and temporality; Liminal time in anthropology and at Athens; Time, ritual, and debate in Iliad I, agonistic temporal framing Oresteia
Agamemnon. The omen of sacrifice; The hymn to Zeus; The watchman; Parodos II; The herald; Agamemnon; The third stasimon; Cassandra; Regicide; Aegisthus
Choephoroi. Ritual at the tomb; The mourning chorus; Reversing ritual polarity; Kommos; Nostos; The first stasimon; Deception at the gates, Orestes' nurse; Mother and son; The third stasimon; Temporal frames and re-sacralization
Eumenides. Staging suspension at Delphi; Time in the Pythia's prologue; Time, ritual, and agency; The ghost of Clytemnestra; The first debate; Orestes' second supplication; The "binding" song; Athena and Athens; The second stasimon; Juridical temporality; Verdict and aftermath; Manifold desacralization
Epilogue.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Lanham, Md
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Greek studies

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882/.01
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PA3825.A6 W53 2011, PA3825.A6 W53 2012, PA3825.A6W53 2011

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OL25066990M
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9780739170458
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2011040090
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749855625

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