Greek Literature in the Classical Period: The Poetics of Drama in Athens : Greek Literature

This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature [ISBN 0-8153-3681-0]. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: reference@routledge-ny.com. Cover 1 Title Page 2 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Series Introduction 8 Volume Introduction 10 Section A. Tragedy 14 1. Figures in the Text: Metaphors and Riddles in the Agamemnon 14 2. Shield of Eteocles 60 3. The List of the War Dead in Aeschylus' Persians 72 4. The Danaid Trilogy 86 5. Tycho von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff on the Dramatic Technique of Sophocles 105 6. Why Is Oedipus Called Tyrannos? 120 7. Gods' Intervention and Epiphany in Sophocles 126 8. Oedipus at Colonus: Exile and Integration 159 9. Antigone: Death and Love, Hades and Dionysus 171 10. Antigone 904-920 and the Institution of Marriage 239 11. Bed and War 256 12. The Argive Festival of Hera and Euripides' Electra 278 13. The AI ΔΏΣ of Phaedra and the Meaning of the Hippolytus 303 14. Review of E. R. Dodds, Missing Persons: An Autobiography 306 Section B. Comedy 314 15. Plato Comicus and the Evolution of Greek Comedy 314 16. Who Is Dicaeopolis? 334 17. A City in the Air: Aristophanes' Birds 338 18. Philocleon's Fables: Ancient Storytelling and a Modern Analogue 364 19. Fifth-Century Tragedy and Comedy: A Synkrisis 378 Section C. "Ritual" and Drama 391 20. Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians: Aetiology, Ritual, and Myth 391 21. The Black Hunter Revisited 419 22. The Cults and the Legend of Oedipus 438 23. Unspeakable Words in Greek Tragedy 456 24. Something to Do with Athens: Tragedy and Ritual 478 25. The Tragic Wedding 501 26. Dancing in Athens, Dancing on Delos: Some Patterns of Choral Projection in Euripides 527 27. Glaucus Redivivus 542 Copyright Acknowledgments 572 V. 1. The Oral Traditional Background Of Ancient Greek Literature -- V. 2. Homer And Hesiod As Prototypes Of Greek Literature -- V. 3. Greek Literature In The Archaic Period : The Emergence Of Authorship -- V. 4. Greek Literature In The Classical Period : The Poetics Of Drama In Athens -- V. 5. Greek Literature In The Classical Period : The Prose Of Historiography And Oratory -- V. 6. Greek Literature And Philosophy -- V. 7. Greek Literature In The Hellenistic Period -- V. 8. Greek Literature In The Roman Period And In Late Antiquity -- V. 9. Greek Literature In The Byzantine Period. Edited With Introductions By Gregory Nagy. Includes Bibliographical References.