Myth and Performance on the Athenian Stage: Praxithea, Erechtheus, their Daughters, and the Aetiology of Autochthony

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents XIII
4. I. Sophocles
5. Sophocles’ Philoctetes and Political Nostalgia 3
6. Genos, Gennaios, and Athens in the Later Tragedies of Sophocles 19
7. Sophocles’ Theseus 41
8. The Sense of Place: Oedipus at Colonus, ‘Political’ Geography, and the Defence of a Way of Life 55
9. Athens and Athenian Space in Oedipus at Colonus 81
10. II. Euripides
11. Mythical Paradigms in Euripides: The Crisis of Myth 103
12. Fragmenting the Self: Society and Psychology in Euripides’ Electra and Ion 121
13. Myth and Performance on the Athenian Stage: Praxithea, Erechtheus, their Daughters, and the Aetiology of Autochthony 139
14. Euripides’ Bacchae: The End of an Era or the Beginning of a New One? 163
15. Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis: War and Human Sacrifice 181
16. Leadership in Action: Wise Policy and Firm Resolve in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis 189
17. The Return of the Father: Euripides’ Antiope, Hypsipyle, and Phoenissae 219
18. Euripides’ ‘Family Reunion Plays’ and their Socio-Political Resonances 241
19. III. Aristophanes and Greek Comedy
20. Women on the Acropolis and Mental Mapping: Comic Body-Politics in a City in Crisis, or Ritual and Metaphor in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata 255
21. Persians, Oligarchs, and Festivals: The Date of Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae 291
22. Comedy and the Crises 303
23. IV. Greek Drama
24. The ‘Dionysiac’ Plays of Aeschylus and Euripides’ Bacchae: Reaffirming Traditional Cult in Late Fifth Century 323
25. Problem Kids: Young Males and Society from Electra to Bacchae 343
26. Metatheatre and Crisis in Euripides’ Bacchae and Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus 359
27. Altruism, Sovereignty, and the Degeneration of Imperial Hegemony in Greek Tragedy and Thucydides 377
28. Scripting Revolution: Democracy and its Discontents in Late Fifth-Century Drama 405
29. Notes on Contributors 443
30. Bibliography 449
31. General Index 495