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Cosmology and the polis : the social construction of space and time in the tragedies of Aeschylus
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Cosmology and the polis : the social construction of space and time in the tragedies of Aeschylus

Richard Seaford

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Introduction
Part I. The Social Construction of Space, Time and Cosmology: 1. Homer: the reciprocal chronotope; 2. Demeter Hymn: the aetiological chronotope; 3. From reciprocity to money
Part II. Dionysiac Festivals: 4. Royal household and public festival; 5. Aetiological chronotope and dramatic mimesis; 6. Monetisation and tragedy
Part III. Confrontational and Aetiological Space in Aeschylus: 7. Telos and the unlimitedness of money; 8. Suppliants; 9. Seven against Thebes; 10. Confrontational space in Oresteia; 11. The unlimited in Oresteia; 12. Persians
Part IV. The Unity of Opposites: 13. Form-parallelism and the unity of opposites; 14. Aeschylus and Herakleitos; 15. From the unity of opposites to their differentiation
Part V. Cosmology of the Integrated Polis: 16. Metaphysics and the polis in Pythagoreanism; 17. Pythagoreanism in Aeschylus; 18. Household, cosmos and polis; Appendix: was there a skēnē for all the extant plays of Aeschylus?.

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Cosmology and the polis : the social construction of space and time in the tragedies of Aeschylus by Richard Seaford. ISBN 9781107009271. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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