Cosmology and the polis

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

Bibliographic Data

ID6575738
AuthorsRichard Seaford
Year2012
Pages380
Publication date2012-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCosmology and the polis (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511920790
WikidataQ57945878
ISBN9780511920790
Open LibraryOL25094330M
LanguageEN
Citations received25

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

Ancient philosophy · Cosmology in literature · Criticism and interpretation · Greek drama (Tragedy · History and criticism · Literary Collections · Money in literature · Ritual in literature · Social interaction in literature · Space and time in literature · Aeschylus · Ancient Philosophy · Ancient, Classical & Medieval · Greek drama (Tragedy) · Greek literature · Greek literature, history and criticism · Literary collections