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Intro
A Companion to Aeschylus
Contents
List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Aeschylus and His Place in History
Part I Aeschylus in His Time
1 Democracy's Age of Bronze: Aeschylus's Plays and Athenian History, 508/7-454 BCE
2 Aeschylus, Lyric and Epic
3 Tragedy before Aeschylus
4 Aeschylean Drama and Intellectual History
5 Aeschylus in Sicily between Tyranny and Democracy
Part II Aeschylus as Playwright
6 Persians
7 Seven against Thebes
8 Fear of Foreign Women in Aeschylus's Suppliants
9 Disorder, Resolution and Language: The Oresteia
10 Eumenides: Justice, Gender, the Gods and the City
11 Intertheatricality and Narrative Structure in the Electra Plays
12 Prometheus Bound: The Principle of Hope
13 Slices from Aeschylus's Feast: The Fragmentary Works
14 Aeschylean Satyr Drama
15 The Tetralogy
16 Visualising the Stage
17 The Choruses of Aeschylus
18 Music, Dance and Metre in Aeschylean Tragedy
19 Aeschylus: Language and Style
20 The Long View in Aeschylus: Intergenerational Myth-Making through the "Other"
Part III Aeschylus and Greek Society
21 Aeschylus and Subversion of Ritual
22 Ghosts, Demons and Gods: Supernatural Challenges
23 Inscribing Justice in Aeschylean Drama
24 Race in Aeschylus's Suppliant Women and Persians
25 Aeschylus's Persians and the "Just War"
26 Aeschylus and History
27 Aeschylus and Athenian Law
28 Aeschylus's Athens between Hegemony and Empire
Part IV The Influence of Aeschylus
29 Critical Approaches to Aeschylus, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
30 The Reception of Aeschylus in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries
31 The Transmission of Aeschylus: The Miracle of Survival
32 The Bow of Ulysses: Aeschylus and his Translators.
33 Variations on a Theme: Prometheus
34 Myth, History and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Reception of the Oresteia
35 Three Landmarks in the Reception of the Oresteia in Twentieth-Century Drama
36 Oresteia on Stage: Koun, Stein, Hall and Mnouchkine
37 Transforming Aeschylus on the Modern Stage
38 Applied Aeschylus
39 Teaching the Oresteia as a Work for the Theatre
Epilogue
Index
EULA.
A Companion to Aeschylus
Contents
List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Aeschylus and His Place in History
Part I Aeschylus in His Time
1 Democracy's Age of Bronze: Aeschylus's Plays and Athenian History, 508/7-454 BCE
2 Aeschylus, Lyric and Epic
3 Tragedy before Aeschylus
4 Aeschylean Drama and Intellectual History
5 Aeschylus in Sicily between Tyranny and Democracy
Part II Aeschylus as Playwright
6 Persians
7 Seven against Thebes
8 Fear of Foreign Women in Aeschylus's Suppliants
9 Disorder, Resolution and Language: The Oresteia
10 Eumenides: Justice, Gender, the Gods and the City
11 Intertheatricality and Narrative Structure in the Electra Plays
12 Prometheus Bound: The Principle of Hope
13 Slices from Aeschylus's Feast: The Fragmentary Works
14 Aeschylean Satyr Drama
15 The Tetralogy
16 Visualising the Stage
17 The Choruses of Aeschylus
18 Music, Dance and Metre in Aeschylean Tragedy
19 Aeschylus: Language and Style
20 The Long View in Aeschylus: Intergenerational Myth-Making through the "Other"
Part III Aeschylus and Greek Society
21 Aeschylus and Subversion of Ritual
22 Ghosts, Demons and Gods: Supernatural Challenges
23 Inscribing Justice in Aeschylean Drama
24 Race in Aeschylus's Suppliant Women and Persians
25 Aeschylus's Persians and the "Just War"
26 Aeschylus and History
27 Aeschylus and Athenian Law
28 Aeschylus's Athens between Hegemony and Empire
Part IV The Influence of Aeschylus
29 Critical Approaches to Aeschylus, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
30 The Reception of Aeschylus in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries
31 The Transmission of Aeschylus: The Miracle of Survival
32 The Bow of Ulysses: Aeschylus and his Translators.
33 Variations on a Theme: Prometheus
34 Myth, History and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Reception of the Oresteia
35 Three Landmarks in the Reception of the Oresteia in Twentieth-Century Drama
36 Oresteia on Stage: Koun, Stein, Hall and Mnouchkine
37 Transforming Aeschylus on the Modern Stage
38 Applied Aeschylus
39 Teaching the Oresteia as a Work for the Theatre
Epilogue
Index
EULA.