title: Orestes and Electra’s Prayer Practices as Instructions to the City
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metadata.value: Pichugina, Victoria K.
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metadata.value: 2024-03-01T17:08:33Z
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metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Pichugina V. K. Orestes and Electra’s Prayer Practices as Instructions to the City. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2023, vol. 39, issue 4, pp. 762–775. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.413
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.413
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45016
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metadata.value: The plot of Orestes and Electra, jointly implementing the revenge plan for the death of their
  father Agamemnon, is taken as the basis of the tragedy Libation Bearers by Aeschylus and the
  tragedies of the same name Electra by Euripides and Sophocles. А divine will and human desires
  intertwine at the key points of each of these tragedies, where the protagonists demonstrate
  different practices of the prayer as precepts to the city, which has to accept and justify the crime
  they are plotting. Orestes and Electra’s prayer practices in Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles
  will be analyzed according to the following questions: To whom do Orestes and Electra pray
  and why? Have their prayers been heard? What events precede the prayers? In which spaces
  of the city are the key prayers pronounced and what is the role of the chorus in it? What has
  the city been instructed to do through these prayers? Both Orestes and Electra assert their
  right to precept and seek support from the gods as the supreme preceptors in different spatial
  coordinates of the city. Theу view the city not only as a space where prayers are pronounced,
  but as another main character that can speak, for example, through the chorus lines or give
  tacit instructions through allusions to the details which appear in urban space descriptions.
  Not only does the city hear the prayers pronounced by the heroes, but it can give additional
  power for their materialization. For the protagonists, the city is as an open/closed space of
  crime and punishment, where they could and should claim new statuses of the ruler-mentors.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 39; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: prayer practices
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: city space
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Orestes
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Electra
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metadata.value: ancient intellectual tradition
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Orestes and Electra’s Prayer Practices as Instructions to the City
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metadata.value: Article
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