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Earth, nature and the cult of the tomb : the posthumous reception of Aeschylus heros
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Bakola, Emmanuela (2018) Earth, nature and the cult of the tomb : the posthumous reception of Aeschylus heros. In: Goldschmidt, Nora and Graziosi, Barbara, (eds.) Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception and Material Culture. Oxford : Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198826477
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826477.003.0007
Abstract
This chapter examines the depiction of the fifth-century tragic poet Aeschylus in Aristophanes’ Frogs by paying particular attention to the play’s engagement with space, especially the space of the earth below, from which the poet is welcomed back to Athens in the finale. It offers new arguments for connecting Frogs to the cult of Aeschylus’ tomb in Sicily, including the play’s engagement with the volcanic properties of the Sicilian landscape and with the knowledge that volcanic soil harbours productive and beneficial, as well as destructive and deadly, forces. It argues that understanding hero worship in terms of fertility, prosperity, well-being, health, and their opposites is particularly revealing in Aeschylus’ case, because these concepts played a key role in Aeschylean dramaturgy, especially in connection to the Aeschylean images of nature and the earth. This leads to a new interpretation of the relationship between Aeschylus’ biography, his literary reception, and his cult.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Classical poetry, Tombs -- Greece, Aeschylus | ||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9780198826477 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception and Material Culture | ||||||
| Editor: | Goldschmidt, Nora and Graziosi, Barbara | ||||||
| Official Date: | October 2018 | ||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198826477.003.0007 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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