Chronos on the threshold :
Widzisz, Marcel Andrew, 1972-
Chronos on the threshold : time, ritual, and agency in the Oresteia / Marcel Andrew Widzisz. - Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012. - xiii, 233 p. ; 24 cm. - Greek studies: interdisciplinary approaches . - Greek studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
9780739170458 (cloth : alk. paper) 0739170457 (cloth : alk. paper)
40020442196
2011040090
Aeschylus. Oresteia.
Aeschylus--Political and social views.
Time in literature.
Ritual in literature.
Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
Moral conditions in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
PA3825.A6 / W53 2012
882/.01
Chronos on the threshold : time, ritual, and agency in the Oresteia / Marcel Andrew Widzisz. - Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012. - xiii, 233 p. ; 24 cm. - Greek studies: interdisciplinary approaches . - Greek studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
9780739170458 (cloth : alk. paper) 0739170457 (cloth : alk. paper)
40020442196
2011040090
Aeschylus. Oresteia.
Aeschylus--Political and social views.
Time in literature.
Ritual in literature.
Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
Moral conditions in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
PA3825.A6 / W53 2012
882/.01