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finelythreadedsky · 1 year ago

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ancient greek tragedies may have had initial runs of just the one performance but being part of the dionysia, an annually repeated festival, means they were subject to the ritual time loop even if each play was only enacted once

#i have singing for the gods at the bottom of my coffee table stack of library books i need to read it #the temporality of ritual and its periodic repetition..........#incidentally homer is NOT subject to the ritual time loop (except when it maybe is in the dios apate/hieros gamos)#the aeneid is though. to be subject to the time loop a narrative has to be coherently linear. and homer is composite. so.#for tragedy theres also the inherent repetition/looping of rehearsal but (like homer) that is not necessarily linear or complete #mine #were gonna sing it again #<- not quite the right tag

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