Why Athens? : a reappraisal of tragic politics /

Other Authors: Carter, D. M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2011
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Table of Contents:
  • The glue of democracy? Tragedy, structure and finance / Peter Wilson
  • Plato, drama and rhetoric / D.M. Carter
  • Nothing to do with Athens? Tragedians at the courts of tyrants / Anne Duncan, Response by Richard Seaford
  • Athenian tragedy as democratic discourse / Peter Burian
  • Euripidean euboulia and the problem of "tragic politics" / Jon Hesk
  • "Possessing an unbridled tongue": frank speech and speaking back in Euripidesʹ Orestes / Elton T.E. Barker, Response by Malcolm Heath
  • Extended families, marriage, and inter-city relations in (later) Athenian tragedy: dynasts II / Mark Griffith
  • Inheritance and the Athenian nature of Sophoclean tragedy / Elean Regina Okell, Response by P.J. Rhodes
  • Choroi achoroi: the Athenian politics of tragic choral identity / Sheila Murnaghan
  • Pity and panhellenic politics: choral emotion in Euripidesʹ Hecuba and Trojan Women / Eirene Visvardi, Response by Ian Ruffell
  • Supplication and empire in Athenian tragedy / Angeliki Tzanetou
  • Athens in Eurpidesʹ Suppliants: ritual, politics and theatre / Graziella Vinh, Response by Barbara Goff
  • The panhellenism of Athenian tragedy / David Rosenbloom
  • Hellenicity in later Euripidean tragedy / John Gilbert, Response by A.J. Podlecki