The theatrical cast of Athens : interactions between ancient Greek drama and society /
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2006
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Table of Contents:
- The theatrical roles of Athens
- Childbearing women: birth and family crisis in ancient drama
- Visible women: painted masks and tragic aesthetics
- Horny satyrs and tragic tetralogies
- Female personifications of poetry in old comedy
- Recasting the barbarian
- The Scythian archer in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae
- Drowning act: the Greeks, swimming, and Timotheus' Persians
- Singing roles in tragedy
- Casting the role of Trygaeus in Aristophanes' Peace
- Lawcourt dramas: acting and performance in legal oratory