Table of Contents
List of Figures xii
Preface and Acknowledgements xiii
Notes on Contributors xiv
Introduction: Aeschylus and His Place in History 1Peter Burian
Part I Aeschylus in His Time 13
1 Democracy's Age of Bronze: Aeschylus's Plays and Athenian History, 508/7–454 bce 15Robert W. Wallace
2 Aeschylus, Lyric and Epic 27P. J. Finglass
3 Tragedy before Aeschylus 40P. J. Finglass
4 Aeschylean Drama and Intellectual History 47Jacques A. Bromberg
5 Aeschylus in Sicily between Tyranny and Democracy 61Malcolm Bell, III
Part II Aeschylus as Playwright 75
6 Persians 77A. F. Garvie
7 Seven against Thebes 88Isabelle Torrance
8 Fear of Foreign Women in Aeschylus's Suppliants 99Rebecca Futo Kennedy
9 Disorder, Resolution and Language: The Oresteia 114David H. Porter
10 Eumenides: Justice, Gender, the Gods and the City 130Peter Burian
11 Intertheatricality and Narrative Structure in the Electra Plays 145Kirk Ormand
12 Prometheus Bound: The Principle of Hope 158I. A. Ruffell
13 Slices from Aeschylus's Feast: The Fragmentary Works 171Anthony Podlecki
14 Aeschylean Satyr Drama 185Carl Shaw
15 The Tetralogy 201Alan H. Sommerstein
16 Visualising the Stage 214A. C. Duncan
17 The Choruses of Aeschylus 230Eva Stehle
18 Music, Dance and Metre in Aeschylean Tragedy 242Naomi Weiss
19 Aeschylus: Language and Style 254R. B. Rutherford
20 The Long View in Aeschylus: Intergenerational Myth-Making through the "Other" 267Arum Park
Part III Aeschylus and Greek Society 281
21 Aeschylus and Subversion of Ritual 283Richard Seaford
22 Ghosts, Demons and Gods: Supernatural Challenges 295Amit Shilo
23 Inscribing Justice in Aeschylean Drama 310Sarah Nooter
24 Race in Aeschylus's Suppliant Women and Persians 323Sarah Derbew
25 Aeschylus's Persians and the "Just War" 334Sydnor Roy
26 Aeschylus and History 346Emily Baragwanath
27 Aeschylus and Athenian Law 361F. S. Naiden
28 Aeschylus's Athens between Hegemony and Empire 373David Rosenbloom
Part IV The Influence of Aeschylus 389
29 Critical Approaches to Aeschylus, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present 391Mark Griffith
30 The Reception of Aeschylus in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries 412C. W. Marshall
31 The Transmission of Aeschylus: The Miracle of Survival 425Marsh McCall
32 The Bow of Ulysses: Aeschylus and his Translators 437Deborah H. Roberts
33 Variations on a Theme: Prometheus 455Theodore Ziolkowski
34 Myth, History and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Reception of the Oresteia 467Adam Lecznar
35 Three Landmarks in the Reception of the Oresteia in Twentieth-Century Drama 479Vayos Liapis
36 Oresteia on Stage: Koun, Stein, Hall and Mnouchkine 491Hallie Rebecca Marshall
37 Transforming Aeschylus on the Modern Stage 505Helene P. Foley
38 Applied Aeschylus 518Peter Meineck
39 Teaching the Oresteia as a Work for the Theatre 533Robin Mitchell-Boyask
Epilogue 544Jacques A. Bromberg
Index 558