Table of Contents

Preface 1. The Politics of Greece’s Theatrical Revolution, ca. 500-ca. 300 BC (Eric Csapo, University of Sydney, Australia and Peter Wilson, University of Sydney, Australia) 2. Selective Memory and Epic Reminiscence in Sophocles’ Ajax (Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania, USA) 3. Elegy and Sophocles’ Philoctetes: A Reflection on Generic Resonance (Kathryn Mattison, McMaster University, Canada) 4. A Dramaturgy of the Self: Deianira Between the Grid and the Couch (Eleni Papazoglou, University of Thessaloniki, Greece) 5. Tragic Overliving and Deferred Funerary Ritual in Euripides’ Hecuba (John Gibert, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) 6. Affective Suspense in Euripides’ Electra (Francis Dunn, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 7. The Fall of Troy, the Glory of Athens: Chorus and Community in Euripides’ Trojan Women (Ruggiero Lionetti, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) 8. Choral Mirroring in Euripides’ Phaethon (Rosa Andújar, King’s College, London, UK) 9. Erôs in Pieces (?): Tragic Erôs in Euripides' Andromeda and Antigone (Anastasia Stavroula Valtadorou, University of Edinburgh, UK) 10. The Case against Domestic Seclusion in (Euripides) fr. 1063 (Elizabeth Scharffenberger, Columbia University, USA) 11. Aeschylus and the Iconography of the Erinyes (Anna Simas, University of Washington) 12. The women of Thebes as Aeschylean Erinyes: the first messenger speech of Euripides’ Bacchae (Paul G. Johnston, Harvard University, USA) 13. Electra-style: Reception(s) of Aeschylus’ Oresteia in Aristophanes’ Clouds (Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound, USA) 14. Making Terminology: on the Use of Generic Vocabulary in Old Attic Comedy (A. Novokhatko, University of Frieburg, Germany) 15. Stratophanes the Ephebe? The Hero's Journeys in Menander’s Sikyonioi (Niall Slater, Emory University, USA) 16. The Pre-History of the Miles Gloriosus in Greek Drama (Wilfred E. Major, Louisiana State University, USA) Notes Glossary of technical terms Bibliography Index

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A collection of selected papers from a decennial conference on Greek Drama which draws together new scholarship from a range of senior and emerging scholars.

About the Author

Hallie Marshall teaches in the Department of Theatre & Film at the University of British Columbia, Canada. C. W. Marshall teaches in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

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Without a doubt the overall academic quality of the papers is high.
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