Antik Yunan Tragedyalarına Dönüştürücü Kirlilik Işığında Bakmak: Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Hippolütos

Year 2022, Issue: 35, 121 - 144, 30.12.2022

Gözde Nur Kesgin

https://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.1177726

Abstract

Bu makale, Antik Yunan dünyasında kirlilik fikrinin tarihsel, toplumsal ve mitsel izini sürerek Antik Yunan toplumsal yapı pratiklerine odaklanmakta ve bu fikir ve pratiklerin M.Ö. 5. yy Atina tragedyalarından Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus ve Hippolütos'ta nasıl yer ettiğini incelemektedir. İki farklı yazar tarafından üç farklı döneme ait bu tragedyalarda yer alan kirlilik motifleri, kirliliğin dönüştürücülüğü bağlamında prensipte farklılıklar göstermektedir. Antik Yunan kirlilik kavramı da bu farklılıklar ışığında yapı bozuma uğratılırken, Mary Douglas, René Girard, Robert Parker, Andrej ve Ivana Petrovic'in kirlilik tanımları da karşılaştırmalı olarak okunmuştur. Kavramın tragedyalardaki konumunu netleştirmek için ritüel kirlilik ve toplumsal kirlilik kavramlarına ayrıca yer verilmiştir. Çalışmanın sonucunda, kirlilik kavramının tragedyalardaki dönüştürücü özelliğinin de devrimci bir hareket olabileceği öne sürülmektedir.

Keywords

Antik Yunan tragedyası, dönüştürücü devrimci kirlilik, miasma, Mary Douglas, René Girard

Viewing Ancient Greek Tragedies in Light of Transformative Pollution: Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Hippolytus

Abstract

This article focuses on the Ancient Greek social structure practices, tracing the historical, social, and mythical traces of the idea of pollution, and explains how these ideas and practices took place in the three fifth century BC Athenian tragedies Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, and Hippolytus. The pollution motifs in the tragedies of three different periods by two different authors show differences in principle in the context of the transformativeness of pollution. While the Ancient Greek concept of pollution was also deconstructed in light of these differences, the definitions of pollution by Mary Douglas, René Girard, Robert Parker, and Andrej and Ivana Petrovic were read comparatively. To clarify the position of the concept in tragedies, the concepts of ritual pollution and social pollution are also disclosed. In conclusion of the study, it is suggested that the transformativeness of the concept of pollution in tragedies also can be a revolutionary movement.

Keywords

Ancient Greek tragedy, transformative revolutionary pollution, miasma, Mary Douglas, René Girard

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