This volume explores the relationships between masterworks of Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes and critical events of Athenian history, by bringing together international scholars with expertise on different aspects of ancient theatre. It raises...
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This volume explores the relationships between masterworks of Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes and critical events of Athenian history, by bringing together international scholars with expertise on different aspects of ancient theatre. It raises questions about how tragic and comic plays composed in late fifth century mirror the acute political and social crisis unfolding in Athens in the wake of the military catastrophe in 413 BCE and the oligarchic revolution in 411 BCE. It is of particular interest to seasoned classical scholars as well as to those interested in Greek drama and Athenia
Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-494) and index
I. Sophocles; Sophocles' Philoctetes and Political Nostalgia; Genos, Gennaios, and Athens in the Later Tragedies of Sophocles; Sophocles' Theseus; The Sense of Place: Oedipus at Colonus, 'Political' Geography, and the Defence of a Way of Life; Athens and Athenian Space in Oedipus at Colonus; II. Euripides; Mythical Paradigms in Euripides: The Crisis of Myth; Fragmenting the Self: Society and Psychology in Euripides' Electra and Ion; Myth and Performance on the Athenian Stage: Praxithea, Erechtheus, their Daughters, and the Aetiology of Autochthony
Euripides' Bacchae: The End of an Era or the Beginning of a New One?Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis: War and Human Sacrifice; Leadership in Action: Wise Policy and Firm Resolve in Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis; The Return of the Father: Euripides' Antiope, Hypsipyle, and Phoenissae; Euripides' 'Family Reunion Plays' and their Socio-Political Resonances; III. Aristophanes and Greek Comedy; Women on the Acropolis and Mental Mapping: Comic Body-Politics in a City in Crisis, or Ritual and Metaphor in Aristophanes' Lysistrata
Persians, Oligarchs, and Festivals: The Date of Lysistrata and ThesmophoriazusaeComedy and the Crises; IV. Greek Drama; The 'Dionysiac' Plays of Aeschylus and Euripides' Bacchae: Reaffirming Traditional Cult in Late Fifth Century; Problem Kids: Young Males and Society from Electra to Bacchae; Metatheatre and Crisis in Euripides' Bacchae and Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus; Altruism, Sovereignty, and the Degeneration of Imperial Hegemony in Greek Tragedy and Thucydides; Scripting Revolution: Democracy and its Discontents in Late Fifth-Century Drama; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography
