სივრცის ფენომენი ესქილეს ტრაგედიებში

The dissertation is devoted to the study of an aspect of tragedies by Aeschylus that has hardly been examined thoroughly – textual space phenomenon. Specifically, the work examines the spatial constructs of three central narratives of dramas by Aeschylus – the messenger speech in “The Persians”, Io’s scene in “Prometheus Bound”, and the Cassandra scene in “Agamemnon”. Within the research, the material was analyzed in two directions: a) Textualization of space: This includes the study of the basic principles of lexical and grammatical coding of various forms of spatial representations modeled in narratives. b) Thematization of space: The second direction of the study is focused on the semantization of the spatial contexts of the episodes.
The methodology chosen for studying the problem combines several directions, although the main approach involves the narratological (classical, post-classical, cognitive) methods of the textual space research. At various stages of the study, the semiotic, hermeneutic and discourse analysis methods of text analysis are also used. The dissertation includes an introduction, three chapters, and a conclusion. The work is accompanied by a glossary of the main narratological terms.
The first chapter of the dissertation presents a spatial analysis of the messenger’s speech in "Persians". At the level of topographic planning the text consists of four basic event regions: 1. Salamis; 2. Psytalea; 3. the spatial continuum of the journey of the Persian troops = Continental Greece; and 4. the river Strymon. The chapter presents a study of the linguistic markers and discourse strategies used to model the spatial parameters of the narrative segments (the naval battle of Salamis and its accompanying events). The dissertation chapter also reviews in detail the spatial concept realized in the scene.
The second chapter of the dissertation is devoted to the research of spatial constructs in Io’s scene ("Prometheus Bound"). The narrative segments are singled out within which the main topological form of the episode, Io's path, is reconstructed. In this respect, the narrative is a unique case as it represents a pseudo-description of oikumene familiar to the author of “Prometheus Bound”, which simultaneously contains the basic conceptual and linguistic aspects of an orientation system built for movement across the land. Based on a detailed analysis of the ancient Greek text, the chapter presents the coordinating lines of spatial conceptualization modeled in the scene.
The third chapter of the thesis presents the analysis of the spatial forms reconstructed in the Cassandra scene ("Agamemnon"). The central event region of the narrative is the palace/palace interior of the Pelopides. Narrative resources are directed not so much to the physical representation of the latter, but to the narration of the situations integrated into it. Thus the physical environment of the palace becomes a subjective category. The nature of human involvement makes the palace a crisis place at the level of its identity, which includes social, political and cultural aspects. It is in this conceptualized spatial environment that the killing of Agamemnon is performed as a central narrative event of the scene.
The dissertation ends with a conclusion summarizing the conducted research