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

Abstract

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. Limit and the Unlimited in Confrontational Space: 7. Telos and the unlimitedness of money 8. Suppliants 9. Septem 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 skene for all the extant plays of Aeschylus?

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