Lexington Books
Pages: 248
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7391-7045-8 • Hardback • December 2011 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
Marcel Andrew Widzisz has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Exeter University, the University of Houston, Boston University, Rice University, and St. John’s College in Annapolis.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Agamemnon
Chapter 3: Choephoroi
Chapter 4: Eumenides
Epilogue
Marcel Andrew Widzisz sheds new light on Aeschylus’ Oresteia by combining close reading of the text with an anthropologically informed perspective on the power of ritual to shape the experience of time. Many studies of time in literature confine themselves to formal analysis. This study demonstrates how much more fruitful it is to ground such analysis in the realities of Greek religion.
— Richard Seaford, University of Exeter