Pollution and crisis in Greek tragedy:
Pollution is ubiquitous in Greek tragedy: matricidal Orestes seeks purification at Apollo's shrine in Delphi; carrion from Polyneices' unburied corpse fills the altars of Thebes; delirious Phaedra suffers from a 'pollution of the mind'. This book undertakes the first detailed ana...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Pollution is ubiquitous in Greek tragedy: matricidal Orestes seeks purification at Apollo's shrine in Delphi; carrion from Polyneices' unburied corpse fills the altars of Thebes; delirious Phaedra suffers from a 'pollution of the mind'. This book undertakes the first detailed analysis of the important role which pollution and its counterparts - purity and purification - play in tragedy. It argues that pollution is central in the negotiation of tragic crises, fulfilling a diverse array of functions by virtue of its qualities and associations, from making sense of adversity to configuring civic identity in the encounter of self and other. While primarily a literary study providing close readings of several key plays, the book also provides important new perspectives on pollution. It will appeal to a broad range of scholars and students not only in classics and literary studies, but also in the study of religions and anthropology |
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| contents | Preface and acknowledgements -- Note on the text -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Plays with pollution -- Backdrops -- Tragedy and crisis -- Pollution, crisis, tragedy -- Texts and contexts -- The plot -- 1. Pollution, interpretation and understanding -- Euripides' Hippolytus -- Inherited evil and pollution -- Ritual pollution as subtext of causation -- The spread of pollution and excessive characters -- Medicine and miasma -- The question of causation -- A journey inwards: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus -- Overture and minor key: the story of the plague -- Crescendo and major keys: the story of Oedipus -- The limits of ritual: miasma -- The limits of ritual: purification -- 2. Pollution and the stability of civic space -- Law and stability and ancient Greece -- Pollution and civic stability -- Sophocles' Antigone -- The crisis of civic space -- Pollution and civic space -- Transgressing corpses: nameless pollution and Creon's failure -- Transgressive corpses: Polyneices' dissolving body and civil war -- 3. Evaluation and stability in Aeschylus' Oresteia -- Part I: Evaluation, justice, pollution -- Part II: Stability and justice -- Appendix: pollution, purification, release -- Excursus: re-reading the Oresteia. Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians -- Release and purification in Iphigenia among the Taurians and the Oresteia -- Pollution, purification and release -- Metatheatre, rewriting and the question of release -- 4. Pollution, purity and civic identity -- Purity, space and civic identity -- Ethnic purity and identity -- Aeschylus' Suppliants -- Suppliants' spaces -- Purity, territory, identity -- Purity, sanctity, virginity -- Sacred space, virginity and civic space -- Sophoclean variations: excursus to Colonus -- Euripides' Ion -- Identity, boundaries, purity: Athens -- Identity, boundaries, purity: Apollo and Ion -- Intermezzo: purity at play -- Problematic purities: Apollo and Ion -- First conclusions: dissonances -- Pure identity as clarified identity -- Second conclusions: relocating Athenian purity -- Envoi -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- General index |
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| spelling | Meinel, Fabian 1982- Verfasser (DE-588)1069349496 aut Pollution and crisis in Greek tragedy Fabian Meinel, Centre Paul-Albert Février, Aix-en-Provence (Université d'Aix-Marseille, CNRS, TDMAM-UMR 7297) Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2015 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 278 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Dissertation Freie Universität Berlin 2012 Preface and acknowledgements -- Note on the text -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Plays with pollution -- Backdrops -- Tragedy and crisis -- Pollution, crisis, tragedy -- Texts and contexts -- The plot -- 1. Pollution, interpretation and understanding -- Euripides' Hippolytus -- Inherited evil and pollution -- Ritual pollution as subtext of causation -- The spread of pollution and excessive characters -- Medicine and miasma -- The question of causation -- A journey inwards: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus -- Overture and minor key: the story of the plague -- Crescendo and major keys: the story of Oedipus -- The limits of ritual: miasma -- The limits of ritual: purification -- 2. Pollution and the stability of civic space -- Law and stability and ancient Greece -- Pollution and civic stability -- Sophocles' Antigone -- The crisis of civic space -- Pollution and civic space -- Transgressing corpses: nameless pollution and Creon's failure -- Transgressive corpses: Polyneices' dissolving body and civil war -- 3. Evaluation and stability in Aeschylus' Oresteia -- Part I: Evaluation, justice, pollution -- Part II: Stability and justice -- Appendix: pollution, purification, release -- Excursus: re-reading the Oresteia. Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians -- Release and purification in Iphigenia among the Taurians and the Oresteia -- Pollution, purification and release -- Metatheatre, rewriting and the question of release -- 4. Pollution, purity and civic identity -- Purity, space and civic identity -- Ethnic purity and identity -- Aeschylus' Suppliants -- Suppliants' spaces -- Purity, territory, identity -- Purity, sanctity, virginity -- Sacred space, virginity and civic space -- Sophoclean variations: excursus to Colonus -- Euripides' Ion -- Identity, boundaries, purity: Athens -- Identity, boundaries, purity: Apollo and Ion -- Intermezzo: purity at play -- Problematic purities: Apollo and Ion -- First conclusions: dissonances -- Pure identity as clarified identity -- Second conclusions: relocating Athenian purity -- Envoi -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- General index Pollution is ubiquitous in Greek tragedy: matricidal Orestes seeks purification at Apollo's shrine in Delphi; carrion from Polyneices' unburied corpse fills the altars of Thebes; delirious Phaedra suffers from a 'pollution of the mind'. This book undertakes the first detailed analysis of the important role which pollution and its counterparts - purity and purification - play in tragedy. It argues that pollution is central in the negotiation of tragic crises, fulfilling a diverse array of functions by virtue of its qualities and associations, from making sense of adversity to configuring civic identity in the encounter of self and other. While primarily a literary study providing close readings of several key plays, the book also provides important new perspectives on pollution. It will appeal to a broad range of scholars and students not only in classics and literary studies, but also in the study of religions and anthropology Religion Greek drama (Tragedy) Pollution / Religious aspects Griechisch (DE-588)4113791-7 gnd rswk-swf Kultische Reinheit Motiv (DE-588)1080155805 gnd rswk-swf Tragödie (DE-588)4060591-7 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4113937-9 Hochschulschrift gnd-content Griechisch (DE-588)4113791-7 s Tragödie (DE-588)4060591-7 s Kultische Reinheit Motiv (DE-588)1080155805 s DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe, Hardcover 978-1-107-04446-3 Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe, Paperback 978-1-108-82010-3 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360570 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Meinel, Fabian 1982- Pollution and crisis in Greek tragedy Preface and acknowledgements -- Note on the text -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Plays with pollution -- Backdrops -- Tragedy and crisis -- Pollution, crisis, tragedy -- Texts and contexts -- The plot -- 1. Pollution, interpretation and understanding -- Euripides' Hippolytus -- Inherited evil and pollution -- Ritual pollution as subtext of causation -- The spread of pollution and excessive characters -- Medicine and miasma -- The question of causation -- A journey inwards: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus -- Overture and minor key: the story of the plague -- Crescendo and major keys: the story of Oedipus -- The limits of ritual: miasma -- The limits of ritual: purification -- 2. Pollution and the stability of civic space -- Law and stability and ancient Greece -- Pollution and civic stability -- Sophocles' Antigone -- The crisis of civic space -- Pollution and civic space -- Transgressing corpses: nameless pollution and Creon's failure -- Transgressive corpses: Polyneices' dissolving body and civil war -- 3. Evaluation and stability in Aeschylus' Oresteia -- Part I: Evaluation, justice, pollution -- Part II: Stability and justice -- Appendix: pollution, purification, release -- Excursus: re-reading the Oresteia. Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians -- Release and purification in Iphigenia among the Taurians and the Oresteia -- Pollution, purification and release -- Metatheatre, rewriting and the question of release -- 4. Pollution, purity and civic identity -- Purity, space and civic identity -- Ethnic purity and identity -- Aeschylus' Suppliants -- Suppliants' spaces -- Purity, territory, identity -- Purity, sanctity, virginity -- Sacred space, virginity and civic space -- Sophoclean variations: excursus to Colonus -- Euripides' Ion -- Identity, boundaries, purity: Athens -- Identity, boundaries, purity: Apollo and Ion -- Intermezzo: purity at play -- Problematic purities: Apollo and Ion -- First conclusions: dissonances -- Pure identity as clarified identity -- Second conclusions: relocating Athenian purity -- Envoi -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- General index Religion Greek drama (Tragedy) Pollution / Religious aspects Griechisch (DE-588)4113791-7 gnd Kultische Reinheit Motiv (DE-588)1080155805 gnd Tragödie (DE-588)4060591-7 gnd |
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| title | Pollution and crisis in Greek tragedy |
| title_alt | Pollution & Crisis in Greek Tragedy |
| title_auth | Pollution and crisis in Greek tragedy |
| title_exact_search | Pollution and crisis in Greek tragedy |
| title_full | Pollution and crisis in Greek tragedy Fabian Meinel, Centre Paul-Albert Février, Aix-en-Provence (Université d'Aix-Marseille, CNRS, TDMAM-UMR 7297) |
| title_fullStr | Pollution and crisis in Greek tragedy Fabian Meinel, Centre Paul-Albert Février, Aix-en-Provence (Université d'Aix-Marseille, CNRS, TDMAM-UMR 7297) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pollution and crisis in Greek tragedy Fabian Meinel, Centre Paul-Albert Février, Aix-en-Provence (Université d'Aix-Marseille, CNRS, TDMAM-UMR 7297) |
| title_short | Pollution and crisis in Greek tragedy |
| title_sort | pollution and crisis in greek tragedy |
| topic | Religion Greek drama (Tragedy) Pollution / Religious aspects Griechisch (DE-588)4113791-7 gnd Kultische Reinheit Motiv (DE-588)1080155805 gnd Tragödie (DE-588)4060591-7 gnd |
| topic_facet | Religion Greek drama (Tragedy) Pollution / Religious aspects Griechisch Kultische Reinheit Motiv Tragödie Hochschulschrift |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360570 |
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