Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been revisioned and adapted over the last 2500 years, focusing both on his theatrical reception and his reception in other media and genres. Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Abbreviations Author Biographies Introduction: The Reception of Aeschylus Part 1 Pre-Modern Receptions Chapter 1 The Reception of Aeschylus in Sicily Chapter 2 The Comedians’ Aeschylus Chapter 3 Aristotle’s Reception of Aeschylus: Reserved Without Malice Chapter 4 Aeschylus in the Hellenistic Period Chapter 5 Aeschylus in the Roman Empire Chapter 6 Aeschylus in Byzantium Part 2 Modern Receptions Chapter 7 Aeschylus and Opera Chapter 8 Aeschylus in Germany Chapter 9 Inglorious Barbarians: Court Intrigue and Military Disaster Strike Xerxes, “The Sick Man of Europe” Chapter 10 Transtextual Transformations of Prometheus Bound in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound: Prometheus’ Gifts to Humankind Chapter 11 Aeschylus and Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley Chapter 12 An Aeschylean Waterloo: Responding to War from the Oresteia to Vanity Fair Chapter 13 Form and Money in Wagner’s Ring and Aeschylean Tragedy Chapter 14 Eumenides and Newmenides: Academic Furies in Edwardian Cambridge Chapter 15 The Broadhead Hypothesis: Did Aeschylus Perform Word Repetition in Persians? Chapter 16 Persians On French Television: An Opera-Oratorio Echoing the Algerian War Chapter 17 Aeschylus’ Oresteia on British Television Chapter 18 Orestes on Trial in Africa: Pasolini’s Appunti per un’ Orestiade Africana and Sissako’s Bamako Chapter 19 Reception of the Plays of Aeschylus in South Africa Chapter 20 In Search of Prometheus: Aeschylean Wanderings in Latin America Chapter 21 Avatars of Aeschylus: O’Neill to Herzog/Golder Chapter 22 The Overlooked οἰκονομία of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining Chapter 23 “Now Harkonnen Shall Kill Harkonnen”: Aeschylus, Dynastic Violence, and Twofold Tragedies in Frank Herbert’s Dune Chapter 24 “Save Our City”: The Curious Absence of Aeschylus in Modern Political Thought Chapter 25 Political Theory in Aeschylean Drama: Ancient Themes and their Contemporary Reception Index Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus' explores the various ways Aeschylus? tragedies have been discussed, parodied, translated, revisioned, adapted, and integrated into other works over the course of the last 2500 years. Immensely popular while alive, Aeschylus? reception begins in his own lifetime. And, while he has not been the most reproduced of the three Attic tragedians on the stage since then, his receptions have transcended genre and crossed to nearly every continent. While still engaging with Aeschylus? theatrical reception, the volume also explores Aeschylus off the stage--in radio, the classroom, television, political theory, philosophy, science fiction and beyond