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Chronos on the Threshold - Time, Ritual, and Agency in the Oresteia (Hardcover, New)
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Chronos on the Threshold - Time, Ritual, and Agency in the Oresteia (Hardcover, New)
Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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Threshold: Time, Ritual, and Agency in the Oresteia I combine
various anthropological, philological, and narratological
perspectives in order to consider afresh both the textual details
and structural elements of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Included among the
approaches, is first a consideration of normative ritual structure
in Archaic and Classical Greece and then a demonstration of its
regular reconfiguration throughout the many individual scenes and
choruses of the trilogy. This framework not only provides a new
view of the micro and macro structure of the Oresteia, but also
allows paves the way for an elucidation of the many references to
time and its workings, references which, however well attested in
the manuscripts, are being more strongly challenged if not
altogether removed from recent editions of the Greek text. Time,
however, beyond appearing as a subject at these key junctures,
pervades the trilogy in a number of subtler ways: in how characters
use timing, attempt to control the tempo of onstage action, and
even demonstrate different degrees of temporal perspicuity. The
appearance of analepsis and prolepsis, the referencing of past and
future (too often presented in previous scholarship in the form of
mere cataloguing such instances), is shown to be a dynamic field of
contention between opposed agents in a discursive process I term
agonistic temporal framing, a practice not only found repeatedly in
the Oresteia, but one which can be detected authors as diverse as
Homer and Plato. The manipulation of time and the various
constructions of competing temporal horizons allow for a new view
of what agency appears as and means in a work such as the Oresteia.
The context of the law court in Eumenides brings with it a
different type of temporality, specifically suited to resolve
conflicting ritual claims, in which temporal framing and individual
antagonisms are subsumed into a greater structure, with even wider
and more long lasting implications for personal and corporate
agency.
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