- Foreword
- I. Spatial-Temporal Poetics of the Past in Ancient Greece
- 1. Prelude: A Historian’s Tensions (“tensions historiennes”) relative to the present
- 2. Pragmatics of spatial-temporal representations
- 2.1. Philosophical temporalities
- 2.2. The double articulation of calendar time
- 2.3. The question of putting-into-discourse
- 2.4. The enunciative dimension
- 2.5. Inescapable pragmatics
- 3. Interlude: between places and acts of memory
- 4. From the time of historiopoiesis to historic space: Herodotus
- 4.1. A spatial-temporal investigation
- 4.2. Pragmatic aspects of enunciation
- 5. A historiographic semiotics of indices: Thucydides
- 5.1. About traces
- 5.2. Greek prefigurations of time: the semeia
- 5.3. Sight and hearing: recent history
- 5.4. The role of images
- 5.5. Return to poietics
- 6. For an anthropological historiography
- 6.1. Interfering temporalities, converging approaches
- 6.2. Possible worlds and historicity of belief communities
- 6.3. Regimes of historicity and logics of temporality
- 6.4. Enunciation and regimes of identity
- 7. Comparative triangles
- II. The Succession of Ages and Poetic Pragmatics of Justice: Hesiod&Rsquo;S Narrative of the Five Human Species
- 1. Object and method: from structural analysis to discursive study
- 2. Narrative time development (deroulement): enunciation and argumentation
- 2.1. A narrative and poetic prelude
- 2.2. The concern of the beginning: between Homeric Hymns and historiography
- 2.3. Spatial-temporal structures and logics
- 2.3.1. Men of gold: guardians of mortals
- 2.3.2. The men of silver: blessed chthonians
- 2.3.3. The men of bronze: self-destruction and anonymity
- 2.3.4. The Age of Heroes: marked space and time
- 2.3.5. The men of iron: a prophetic future
- 2.4. Narrative and poetic context
- 2.4.1. Narrative of Pandora and the jar of Hope
- 2.4.2. The fable of the the hawk and the nightingale as argument
- 2.4.3. Poetic effect, between justice and life resources
- 2.5. Enunciative polyphony and the voice of the poet
- 2.5.1. The poet’s word of authority and hope
- 2.5.2. Communication, poetic genre, and the city
- 3. The hazards of comparison: “comparing the incomparable”?
- 3.1. Comparatist incursions between Indo-European and Semitic references
- 3.2. Daniel and the vetero-testamentary dream of Nebuchadnezzar
- 4. The hic et nunc of a didactic poem
- III. Creation of Gender and Heroic Identity Between Legend and Cult: The Political Creation of Theseus by Bacchylides
- 1. Sexual social relationships and spatial-temporal representations
- 1.1. Enunciation of representations of gender
- 1.2. Temporalities between line and circl
- 2. Narrative movements in time and space
- 2.1. Essay on semio-narrative analysis
- 2.2. From ordeal to tribal initiation ritual
- 2.3. Erotic images
- 2.4. Aphrodite and marriage
- 3. From the Aegean Sea to the banks of the Sepik: comparisons
- 3.1. Masculine tribal initiation: the Iatmuls
- 3.2. Puberty rites for girls: the Abelams
- 4. The practices of enunciative poetry
- 4.1. Time and space recounted in the spatial-temporal frame of enunciation
- 4.2. Signature, aition, and poetic genre
- 4.3. The poetic legimitization of a maritime “empire”
- 4.4. Symbolic births from the sea and iconography
- 1. Sexual social relationships and spatial-temporal representations
- IV. Regimes of Historicity and Oracular Logic: How to Re-Found a Colonial City?
- 1. Cyclical and philosophical temporalities
- 2. A doubly-founding document
- 3. Temporal and enunciative architecture
- 3.1. The first section: “God. Good fortune.”
- 3.1.1. The narrative of the act of foundation
- 3.1.2. The consecration of the decree of Cyrene
- 3.2. The second section: “Oath of the Founders”
- 3.2.1. The contractual decree of foundation
- 3.2.2. Contract, imprecation, and ritual gesture
- 3.3. Temporal-spatial networks
- 3.1. The first section: “God. Good fortune.”
- 4. Time of the oracles and time of the citizen
- 5. Weaving space and time between Delphi and Cyrene
- V. Ritual and Initiatory Itineraries Toward the Afterlife: Time, Space, and Pragmatics in the Gold Lamellae
- 1. Neo-mystical aspirations
- 2. The spatial-temporal itinerary of a dead woman at Hipponion
- 2.1. Narration and enunciation
- 2.1.1. An incipit in the form of a sphragis
- 2.1.2. The two springs
- 2.1.3. Declaration of identity
- 2.1.4. The four elements
- 2.1.5. Access to the realm of the blessed
- 2.2. Enunciative pragmatics: the funerary context
- 2.2.1. The poetic workings of gender
- 2.2.2. A few intertextual echoes
- 2.3. Initiatory itinerary under the aegis of Dionysus
- 2.3.1. Initiates’ shortcuts in Hades
- 2.3.2. Mystes and bacchant: a preliminary status
- 2.1. Narration and enunciation
- 3. Modalities of funerary initiation
- 3.1. Thourioi: purity and divine felicity
- 3.2. Pelinna: falling into milk and metaphor
- 4. From Bacchus to Orpheus: comparisons and contrasts
- 4.1. Original sin and Christian expiation
- 4.2. Iconographic representations of the Underworld
- 4.3. Orpheus and Dionysus as musicians
- 4.4. Dionsysus, excluding Orpheus
- 5. Passwords for a collective funerary identity
- VI. By Way of Conclusion: Returns to the Present
- VII. Bibliography
HELLENIC STUDIES SERIES


Hellenic Studies Series 18
Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece
Heroic Reference and Ritual Gestures in Time and Space
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Publication Date: 10/30/2009
275 pages
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