Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Author Biographies -- Introduction: The Reception of Aeschylus -- Part 1 Pre-Modern Receptions -- Chapter 1 The Reception of Aeschylus in Sicily -- Chapter 2 The Comedians' Aeschylus -- Chapter 3 Aristotle's Reception of Aeschylus: Reserved Without Malice -- Chapter 4 Aeschylus in the Hellenistic Period -- Chapter 5 Aeschylus in the Roman Empire -- Chapter 6 Aeschylus in Byzantium -- Part 2 Modern Receptions -- Chapter 7 Aeschylus and Opera -- Chapter 8 Aeschylus in Germany -- Chapter 9 Inglorious Barbarians: Court Intrigue and Military Disaster Strike Xerxes, "The Sick Man of Europe" -- Chapter 10 Transtextual Transformations of Prometheus Bound in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: Prometheus' Gifts to Humankind -- Chapter 11 Aeschylus and Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley -- Chapter 12 An Aeschylean Waterloo: Responding to War from the Oresteia to Vanity Fair -- Chapter 13 Form and Money in Wagner's Ring and Aeschylean Tragedy -- Chapter 14 Eumenides and Newmenides: Academic Furies in Edwardian Cambridge -- Chapter 15 The Broadhead Hypothesis: Did Aeschylus Perform Word Repetition in Persians? -- Chapter 16 Persians On French Television: An Opera-Oratorio Echoing the Algerian War -- Chapter 17 Aeschylus' Oresteia on British Television -- Chapter 18 Orestes on Trial in Africa: Pasolini's Appunti per un' Orestiade Africana and Sissako's Bamako -- Chapter 19 Reception of the Plays of Aeschylus in South Africa -- Chapter 20 In Search of Prometheus: Aeschylean Wanderings in Latin America -- Chapter 21 Avatars of Aeschylus: O'Neill to Herzog/Golder -- Chapter 22 The Overlooked οἰκονομία of Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

Chapter 23 "Now Harkonnen Shall Kill Harkonnen": Aeschylus, Dynastic Violence, and Twofold Tragedies in Frank Herbert's Dune -- Chapter 24 "Save Our City": The Curious Absence of Aeschylus in Modern Political Thought -- Chapter 25 Political Theory in Aeschylean Drama: Ancient Themes and their Contemporary Reception -- Index.

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus' tragedies have been revisioned and adapted over the last 2500 years, focusing both on his theatrical reception and his reception in other media and genres.

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