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Cosmology and the polis

the social construction of space and time in the tragedies of Aeschylus

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An edition of Cosmology and the polis (2012)

Cosmology and the polis

the social construction of space and time in the tragedies of Aeschylus

"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"--

"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 monetized chronotope into the traditional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological myth"--

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Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus
2015, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Cosmology and the polis
Cosmology and the polis: the social construction of space and time in the tragedies of Aeschylus
2012, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Cosmology and the Polis
Cosmology and the Polis
2012, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Cosmology and the Polis
Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus
2012, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Cosmology and the Polis
Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus
2012, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Cosmology and the Polis
Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus
2012, Cambridge University Press
in English

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
882/.01
Library of Congress
PA3829 .S37 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
380

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Open Library
OL25094330M
ISBN 13
9781107009271
LCCN
2011041583
OCLC/WorldCat
753630544
Wikidata
Q57945878

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