Euripides’ Alexandros in performance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. Abbreviations XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Inter-dramatic Dialogues
7. ‘All’s well that ends well’: Euripides’ response to Sophocles’ Antigone 15
8. Alope’s legend and its dramatic refigurations 26
9. Tragedy into Comedy: Euripides’ Alcmeon in Corinth as a source text of Menander’s Periceiromene 48
10. Part II: Tragedy through Aristotelian Spectacles
11. Exploring Aristotle’s Poetics as a source for lost tragedies 61
12. Aristotle’s reception of the lysis in Theodectes’ Lynceus: Remarks on Poet. 11, 1452a 27–29 and 18, 1455b 29–32 73
13. Part III: Iconographic Reception
14. The representation of Euripides’ Dictys in South Italian painted pottery 85
15. The reception of Euripides’ Alexandros in Etruscan iconography 97
16. Part IV: Performing Fragments
17. Euripides’ Alexandros in performance 117
18. Bibliography 129
19. General Index 153
20. Index of Passages Discussed 159