Chronos on the threshold
Subtitle: time, ritual, and agency in the Oresteia
By: Marcel Andrew Widzisz
Series: Greek studies
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739170458
Subjects: Moral conditions in literature; Time in literature; Ancient Rhetoric; Ritual in literature; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; Ethics in literature; Political and social views
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Agamemnon. The omen of sacrifice; The hymn to Zeus; The watchman; Parodos II; The herald; Agamemnon; The third stasimon; Cassandra; Regicide; Aegisthus; title: 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; title: 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; title: Epilogue.