General Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Maps and Figures IX
5. Introduction: On Departing the Polis 1
6. Part I: Theatrical Journeys and Travellers
7. Travel to Athens’ Dionysia: Ἑλλὰς Ἑλλάδος and the Centripetal Politics of the Athenian Dionysia 19
8. Travel beyond Athens: Pilgrims and Sanctuaries in Greek Tragedy 43
9. An Archetypical Traveler: Strangers in Distress and Suppliants in Greek Tragedy 89
10. Mapping the Cosmos: The Cosmological Imagination of Travelling in Aeschylus’ Persians and the Oresteia 107
11. Part II: Travel and the Tragic
12. Sophocles’ Triptolemos and other Tragic Globetrotters 141
13. Travelling Through Nemea in Euripides’ Hypsipylē 153
14. Euripides’ Melanippē Plays and the Politics of Travel 167
15. Part III: Comic Travels
16. The Voyage of Eternal Return: Extraordinary Travel in Aristophanes and Old Comedy 185
17. Perceptions of Travel in Greek Comedy: Exploring some Examples from Middle Comedy 209
18. The Importance of Overseas in Menander 225
19. Abbreviations
20. Bibliography
21. List of Contributors 265
22. General Index