Dionysalexandros : Essays on Aeschylus and His Fellow Tragedians: In Honour of Alexander F Garvie

In seventeen original essays, a distinguished international cast considers the text, interpretation and cultural context of Greek tragedy. There are detailed studies of single plays, of major themes in each of the three tragedians, of modern approaches to tragic text and interpretation, and of the genre's social, religious and political background. Some of tragedy's most distinguished interpreters here present their latest work, and pay tribute to the scholarly achievements of the volume's honorand, Professor A.F. Garvie. Aeschylus' Persai : The Entry Of Tragedy Into The Celebration Culture Of The 470s? / Oliver Taplin -- Aischylos Megalophōnotatos / A.j. Podlecki -- King And Demos In Aeschylus / Martin West -- Nineteen Notes On Aeschylus, Agamemnon / Hugh Lloyd-jones -- Tragic Persons In Pieces, In Fragments At First, And Lastly In Choephori 211 / Christopher Collard -- Some Remarks On Methods Of Critics And Editors Of Aeschylus From The 17th To The 19th Century / Vittorio Citti -- Prometheus Bound : Drama And Enactment / Jean Bollack -- Vaticinium Post Eventum And The Position Of The Supplices In The Danaid Trilogy / Martin Hose -- Virtue And Vicissitude : The Paradoxes Of The Ajax / Douglas Cairns -- The Death Of Oedipus And What Happened Next / P.e. Easterling -- Stars And Heroines In Euripides' Helen (helen 375-85) / David B. Robinson -- An Instance Of Euripidean Modernism : Orestes 1-3 / Pierre Judet De La Combe -- The Opening Of Euripides' Archelaus / Scott Scullion -- Ghosts, Wand'ring Here And There : Orestes The Revenant In Athens / Vayos Liapis -- Rape And Consent In Athenian Tragedy / Alan H. Sommerstein -- The Social Function Of Tragedy : Clarifications And Questions / Malcolm Heath -- Tragedy As Treatment : Medical Analogies In Aristotle's Poetics / Elizabeth Craik. Editors, Douglas Cairns And Vayos Liapis ; Contributors: Jean Bollack ... [et Al.]. Alexander F. Garvie: List Of Publications: P. Xv-xx. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction Ale xander F. Garvie List of Publications 1 Aesch ylus ’ Persai – the entr y of Traged y into the celebration culture of the 470s? 2 Αἰσχύλος μεγαλοφωνότατος 3 King and Demos in Aesch ylus 4 Nineteen Notes on Aesch ylus , Agamemnon 5 Tragic persons in pieces , in Fragments at first , and lastl y in Choephori 211 6 SOME REMARKS ON METHODS OF CRITICS AND EDITORS OF AESCHYLUS FROM THE Seventeenth TO THE nineteenth CENTURY 7 PROMETHEUS BOUND: DRAMA AND ENACTMENT* 8 Vaticinium post eventum and the position of the Supplices in the Danaid trilog y 9 Virtue and Vicissitude : The Parado xes of the Ajax 10 The death of Oedipus and what happened ne xt 11 Stars and Heroines in Euripides ’ Helen (HELEN 375–85) 12 An instance of Euripidean ‘modernism ’: Orestes 1–3* 13 The Opening of Euripides ’ Archelaus 14 Ghosts , Wand ’ring Here and There : Orestes the Revenant in Athens 15 Rape and consent in Athenian traged y 16 The ‘social function ’ of traged y: clarifications and questions 17 Traged y as Treatment : medical analogies in Aristotle ’s Poetics Inde x Rerum Inde x locorum Features 17 essays considering the text, interpretation and cultural context of Greek tragedy. This book includes studies of single plays, of major themes in each of the three tragedians, of modern approaches to tragic text and interpretation, and of the genre's social, political and religious background.