Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors’ Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. A Note on the Text xi
6. Preface xii
7. 1 Female Genitalia Onstage in Aristophanes 1
8. 2 ‘Let Loose the Melodies of Holy Hymns’: Voice, Agency and Gender in Aristophanes’ Birds 19
9. 3 Performing Ritual Sacrifice in Aristophanes’ Peace and Birds 38
10. 4 Political Ambition and Poetry in Aristophanes’ Birds and Plato’s Aristophanes 49
11. 5 Sophocles and Happy Endings 64
12. 6 Heroism in the Middle in Sophocles’ Philoctetes 76
13. 7 διδαγμάτων ἥδιστον: Storytelling and the Origin of Religion in the Sisyphus Fragment (43 Fr. 19 TrGF) 90
14. 8 The Whetstone of Love: Helen’s Blemished Beauty 103
15. 9 Virginity and the Post-mortem State of the Body: Reading Mary and Hippolytus in Dialogue 119
16. 10 Literal Truth, Mythic Truth and Narrative in Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe 131
17. 11 The Body’s Borders: Violation and the Visual in the Carmina Priapea 144
18. 12 What Are the Goals of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura? 160
19. 13 Not So Funny After All: On Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Text of Petronius 178
20. Index 204