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Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores how the oath can mark or structure a dramatic plot, at times compelling characters like Euripides' Hippolytus to act contrary to their best interests. It demonstrates how dramatic oaths resonate with oath rituals familiar to the Athenian audiences. Aristophanes' Lysistrata and her accomplices, for example, swear an oath that blends protocols of international treaties with priestesses' vows of sexual abstinence. By employing the principles of speech act theory, this book examines how the performative power of the dramatic oath can mirror the status quo, but also disturb categories of gender, social status and civic identity in ways that redistribute and confound social authority.
Greek drama --- Oaths in literature --- Speech acts (Linguistics) in literature. --- Théâtre grec --- Serments dans la littérature --- Actes de parole dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Aeschylus --- Sophocles --- Euripides --- Aristophanes --- Oaths in literature. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Classical Greek literature --- Literary rhetorics --- Drama --- Théâtre grec --- Serments dans la littérature --- Actes de parole dans la littérature --- Euripides. --- Sophocles. --- Aeschylus. --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Aristofan --- Arystofanes --- Aristophane --- Aristofane --- Arisutopanesu --- Arisutofanesu --- Aristófanes --- Aristophanes Comicus --- אריסטופאנוס --- אריסטופאנס --- אריסטופאנס. כספי זיוה --- אריסטופניס --- אריסטופנס --- Ἀριστοφάνης --- Ėvripid --- Yūrībīdīs --- Euripide --- Euripedes --- Eŭripido --- Eurypides --- Euripidesu --- אוריפידס --- エウリーピデース --- Εὐριπίδης --- Sophocle --- Sófocles --- Sofoklis --- Sophoclis --- Sofokl --- Sūfūklīs --- Sofokles --- Sūtmūklīs --- Sofocle --- Sophokles --- Sofokŭl --- סופוקלס --- سوفوكليس --- Σοφοκλῆς --- Eskhil --- Eschylus --- Aischylos --- Esquilo --- Eschilo --- Aiskhilos --- Eshil --- Æskílos --- Ajschylos --- Eschil --- Esḳilos --- Eschyle --- Äschylos --- Eskili --- Aiszkhülosz --- Eschylos --- Iskilos --- Эсхил --- אייסכילוס --- איסכילאס --- איסכילוס --- إيسخولوس --- ايسخيلوس --- Αἰσχύλος
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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 Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy and in particular the tragedies of Aeschylus. Mikhail Bakhtin's pioneering use of the chronotope was in literary analysis. This study by contrast derives the variety of chronotopes manifest in Greek texts from the variety of socially integrative practices in the developing polis - notably reciprocity, collective ritual and monetised exchange. In particular, the Oresteia of Aeschylus embodies the reassuring absorption of the new and threatening monetised chronotope into the traditional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological myth. This argument includes the first ever demonstration of the profound affinities between Aeschylus and the (Presocratic) philosophy of his time.
Cosmology in literature. --- Space and time in literature. --- Social interaction in literature. --- Money in literature. --- Ritual in literature. --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Cosmologie dans la littérature --- Espace et temps dans la littérature --- Interaction sociale dans la littérature --- Monnaie dans la littérature --- Rituel dans la littérature --- Tragédie grecque --- Philosophie ancienne --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Aeschylus --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Thematology --- Drama --- Cosmologie dans la littérature --- Espace et temps dans la littérature --- Interaction sociale dans la littérature --- Monnaie dans la littérature --- Rituel dans la littérature --- Tragédie grecque --- Cosmology in literature --- Money in literature --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ritual in literature --- Social interaction in literature --- Space and time in literature --- Space and time as a theme in literature --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- History and criticism --- Aischylos --- Eschilo --- Eschyle --- Eschylus --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Eskhil --- Esquilo --- Aiskhilos --- Eshil --- Æskílos --- Ajschylos --- Eschil --- Esḳilos --- Äschylos --- Eskili --- Aiszkhülosz --- Eschylos --- Iskilos --- Эсхил --- אייסכילוס --- איסכילאס --- איסכילוס --- إيسخولوس --- ايسخيلوس --- Αἰσχύλος
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