Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. A. Getting the Show on the Road
5. The Classical Tragedians, from Athenian Idols to Wandering Poets 37
6. Situating the Gaze of the Recipient(s): Theatre-Related Vase Paintings and their Contexts of Reception 69
7. Changing Contexts: Tragedy in the Civic and Cultural Life of Hellenistic City-States 99
8. B. From Greece to Rome
9. Buskins & SPQR: Roman Receptions of Greek Tragedy 151
10. Dionysiac Theme and Dramatic Allusion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 4 187
11. “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here”: The Reception of Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians in Ovids’s Exile Poetry 219
12. C. The Roman Empire
13. Drama and Epic Narrative: The Test Case of Messenger Speech in Seneca’s Agamemnon 247
14. Seneca and Pantomime 269
15. A Sophist’s Drama: Lucian and Classical Tragedy 289
16. D. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
17. Christians and the Theater 313
18. The Tragedy of the Middle Ages 335
19. Adventures in Recording Technology: The Drama-as-Performance in the Greek East 371
20. Whipping Jesus Devoutly: The Dramaturgy of Catharsis and the Christian Idea of Tragic Form 397
21. Backmatter 425