Chronos on the threshold : time, ritual, and agency in the Oresteia /
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| Author / Creator: | Widzisz, Marcel Andrew, 1972- |
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012. |
| Description: | xiii, 233 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Greek studies: interdisciplinary approaches Greek studies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8660121 |
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.
