Loading…

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Seaford, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.