By Richard Seaford

ISBN-10: 1107009278

ISBN-13: 9781107009271

ISBN-10: 1107470722

ISBN-13: 9781107470729

This ebook additional develops Professor Seaford's leading edge paintings at the learn of formality and funds within the constructing Greek polis. It employs the concept that of the chronotope, which refers back to the phenomenon wherein the spatial and temporal frameworks particular or implicit in a textual content have an identical constitution, and uncovers a number of such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy and specifically the tragedies of Aeschylus. Mikhail Bakhtin's pioneering use of the chronotope was once in literary research. This examine in contrast derives the range of chronotopes appear in Greek texts from the range of socially integrative practices within the constructing polis - significantly reciprocity, collective ritual and monetised trade. specifically, the Oresteia of Aeschylus embodies the reassuring absorption of the hot and dangerous monetised chronotope into the conventional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological delusion. This argument comprises the 1st ever demonstration of the profound affinities among Aeschylus and the (Presocratic) philosophy of his time.

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