Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Euripides’s Poetic Game and Law of Composition 1
5. 2. Anthropomorphism 4
6. 3. The Protection of the Self and the Role of Sophia 14
7. 4. Some Connotations of Sophia 20
8. 5. Polyneices’s Truth 30
9. 6. Hecuba’s Rhetoric 32
10. 7. Eros in Euripides’s Poetics: Sex as the Cause of the Trojan War 34
11. 8. The Lewd Gaze of the Eye 43
12. 9. The Power of Love: Who Is Aphrodite? 46
13. 10. Phaedra 49
14. 11. Hermione: The Andromache 61
15. 12. Female Victims of War: The Troades 71
16. 13. The Survival in Poetry 79
17. 14. Figures of Metalepsis: The Invention of “Literature” 82
18. 15. The Failure of Politics in Euripides’s Poetics: Politics in the Suppliant Women 95
19. 16. Political Philosophy: A Universal Program of Peace and Progress 103
20. 17. How to Deliberate a War 112
21. 18. Democracy and Monarchy 121
22. 19. The Battle 125
23. 20. The Rescue of the Corpses 128
24. 21. Return to Arms 138
25. 22. The Polis’s Loss of Control and Authority 142
26. 23. The Bacchants’ Gospel and the Greek City 154
27. 24. Pentheus and Teiresias 158
28. 25. Dionysus’s Revenge: First Round 163
29. 26. Revenge Prepares Its Murderous Weapon 169
30. 27. Initiation and Sacrifice 176
31. 28. Victory and Defeat 185
32. 29. Euripides’s Poetry 191
33. Bibliography 205
34. Subject Index 217
35. Index Locorum 225