Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus

by Richard Seaford

Book Overview

This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure and uncovers various such chronotopes in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and in particular the tragedies of Aeschylus. Mikhail Bakhtin's pioneering use of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107009278
• ISBN13: 9781107009271
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"