A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- List of Figures -- List of Maps and Plans -- Abbreviations and Signs -- Map -- 1: Aspects of Ancient Greek Drama -- Drama -- Drama and the poets -- Why Athens? -- The time-frame -- The evidence -- The Dramatic Festivals -- The Theatrical Space -- The Performance -- Conventions of the space -- "Theater of the mind" -- The performers -- Drama, Dionysos, and the Polis -- Drama and the polis -- Drama's political content -- Drama and democracy -- Recommended Reading -- Greek drama -- Greek theater -- Greek drama (visual) -- Drama and dionysos -- Drama and politics -- 2: Greek Tragedy -- On the Nature of Greek Tragedy -- The tragic plot-line -- Character in tragedy -- Theater of the word -- The parts of tragedy -- Early tragedy (534-472) -- Aeschylus -- Aeschylus and the trilogy -- The Prometheus-plays -- The dramas of Aeschylus -- Character in Aeschylus -- The chorus in Aeschylus -- The style of Aeschylus -- Gender-themes in Aeschylus -- Aeschylus' moral and divine universe -- Aeschylus and his age -- Sophokles -- The plays of Sophokles -- Sophokles as dramatist -- Sophokles and dramatic character -- The chorus in Sophokles -- Irony in Sophokles -- Sophokles' divine and moral universe -- Sophokles and the polis -- Euripides -- Euripides' plays -- Euripides the innovator -- Euripides and drama -- Euripides and psychology -- Euripides and women -- Euripides and the gods -- Euripides and the polis -- Euripides and the "new music" -- The Other Tragedians -- Recommended Reading -- Greek tragedy -- Aeschylus -- Sophokles -- Euripides -- 3: The Satyr-Drama -- Cyclops -- Recommended Reading -- 4: Greek Comedy -- Origins -- Old Comedy (486 - ca. 385) -- Comedy of the great idea -- The chorus in Old Comedy -- The language of comedy.

The costume of Old Comedy -- The structure of Old Comedy -- The theme of the Golden Age -- Artistic parody -- Comedy of ideas -- Domestic comedy -- Political and topical comedy -- "To make fun of by name" -- The Generations of Old Comedy -- The early years -- Epicharmos -- Kratinos and the second generation -- Old Comedy: the next generation -- Old Comedy: the final generation -- Aristophanes -- Greek Comedy and the Phlyax-vases -- Middle Comedy -- Menander and New Comedy -- Recommended Reading -- Greek comedy -- Aristophanes -- Old Comedy -- Later comedy -- 5: Approaching Greek Drama -- Formal Criticism -- Interdisciplinary Approaches -- Visual Interpretations -- Reception Studies -- Recommended Reading -- Structuralism -- Myth and ritual -- Psychoanalytical -- Cognitive sciences -- Gender -- Iconographic studies -- Ancient and modern stagecraft -- Reception studies -- Modern performances -- 6: Play Synopses -- Aeschylus' Persians (Persae, Persai) -- Aeschylus' Seven (Seven against Thebes) -- Aeschylus' Suppliants (Suppliant Women, Hiketides) -- Aeschylus' Oresteia -- Aeschylus' Agamemnon -- Aeschylus' Libation-Bearers (Choephoroe) -- Aeschylus' Eumenides (Furies) -- Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (Prometheus Vinctus, Prometheus Desmotēs) -- Sophokles' Ajax (Aias) -- Sophokles' Antigone -- Sophokles' Trachinian Women (Trachiniai, Women of Trachis) -- Sophokles' Oedipus Tyrannos (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus the King) -- Sophokles' Elektra (Electra) -- Sophokles' Philoktetes (Philoctetes) -- Sophokles' Oedipus at Kolonos (Colonus) -- Euripides' Alkestis (Alcestis) -- Euripides' Medea -- Euripides' Children of Herakles (Heraclidae, Herakleidai) -- Euripides' Hippolytos -- Euripides' Andromache -- Euripides' Hecuba (Hekabē) -- Euripides' Suppliant Women (Suppliants, Hiketides) -- Euripides' Elektra (Electra).

Euripides' Herakles (Hercules Furens, The Madness of Herakles) -- Euripides' Trojan Women (Troades) -- Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians (Iphigeneia in Tauris) -- Euripides' Ion -- Euripides' Helen -- Euripides' Phoenician Women (Phoinissai) -- Euripides' Orestes -- Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis -- Euripides' Bacchae (Bacchants) -- Euripides' Cyclops -- [Euripides'] Rhesos -- Aristophanes' Acharnians -- Aristophanes' Knights (Hippeis, Equites, Horsemen) -- Aristophanes' Wasps (Sphēkes, Vespae) -- Aristophanes' Peace (Pax, Eirēnē) -- Aristophanes' Clouds (Nubes, Nephelai) -- Aristophanes' Birds (Ornithes, Aves) -- Aristophanes' Lysistrate -- Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria (Thesmophoriazousai) -- Aristophanes' Frogs (Ranae, Batrachoi) -- Aristophanes' Assembly-Women (Ekklesiazousai) -- Aristophanes' Wealth (Ploutos) -- Menander's The Grouch (Old Cantankerous, Dyskolos) -- Menander's Samian Woman (Samia) or Marriage-contract -- A Note on Meter -- Glossary of Names and Terms -- Timeline -- Further Reading -- Index.

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