Chronos on the threshold : time, ritual, and agency in the Oresteia / Marcel Andrew Widzisz.
Material type: TextSeries: Greek studiesPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.Description: xiii, 233 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780739170458 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0739170457 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 882/.01 23
- PA3825.A6 W53 2012
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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.
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