The People in Aeschylus’ Tragedies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. I. Tragedy and Comedy
5. Cult, Lyric and Komos: The Origins of Tragedy and Comedy, Once Again 3
6. Philanthropic Gods in Comedy and Tragedy 15
7. The People in Aeschylus’ Tragedies 33
8. Staging Allegory 49
9. Trygodia – Remarks on the Poetics of Aristophanic Comedy 65
10. When Dionysus Goes to the East: On the Dissemination of Greek Drama beyond Athens 75
11. II. Individual Plays
12. Klytaimnestra in the Odyssey and Aeschylus’ Agamemnon 121
13. Sophocles’ Ajax and his Homeric Prototypes 137
14. The Prosopon Fallacy or, Apollo in Sophocles’ Electra 157
15. Failing with Intent: A Narratological Note on the ‘False Merchant Scene’ in Sophocles’ Philoctetes 171
16. Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Euripides’ Electra (367–390) and the Poetics of the Play 181
17. Narrative and Rhetorical Experimentation in Euripides’ Late Iphigenia at Aulis 213
18. III. Reception
19. A Note on Demosthenes (19.246–250) and the Reception of Sophocles’ Antigone 235
20. Tragedy in Antiphon 1, Against the Stepmother 243
21. Euripides’ Erechtheus in Lykourgos’ Against Leokrates 251
22. Upon the king! 269
23. The Lemnian Deeds: A Tragic Episode in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius 277
24. Tristan and Isolde and Classical Myth 295
25. IV. Theatre and Music
26. The Role of Music in Plato’s Symposium 313
27. Aristotle on Music and Theatre (Politics VIII 6. 1340 b 20–1342 b 34; Poetics) 317
28. Notes on Contributors 347
29. Academic Publications of Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos 351
30. Index Locorum 357
31. General Index 365
32. Index of Greek Words 375