Includes bibliographical references (p. [414]-444) and indexes. "Most of the chapters in this volume were presented at a conference ... held at the University of Reading on 10-11 September 2007"--P. [v].
Contents:
Response / by A.J. Podlecki. pt. VI. Context. The glue of democracy? Tragedy, structure and finance / Peter Wilson ; Plato, drama, and rhetoric / D.M. Carter ; Nothing to do with Athens? Tragedians at the courts of tyrants / Anne Duncan ; Response / by Richard Seaford -- pt. II. Discourse. Athenian tragedy as democratic discourse / Peter Burian ; Euripidean euboulia and the problem of 'tragic politics' / Jon Hesk ; 'Possessing an unbridled tongue': frank speech and speaking back in Euripides' Orestes / Elton T.E. Barker ; Response / by Malcolm Heath -- pt. III. Families. Extended families, marriage, and inter-city relations in (later) Athenian tragedy: Dynasts II / Mark Griffith ; Inheritance and the Athenian nature of Sophoclean tragedy / Eleanor Regina OKell ; Response / by P.J. Rhodes -- pt. IV. Choruses. Choroi achoroi: the Athenian politics of tragic choral identity / Sheila Murnaghan ; Pity and panhellenic politics: choral emotion in Euripides' Hecuba and Trojan women / Eirene Visvardi ; Response / by Ian Ruffell -- pt. V. Suppliants. Supplication and empire in Athenian tragedy / Angeliki Tzanetou ; Athens in Euripides' Suppliants: ritual, politics, and theatre / Graziella Vinh ; Response / by Barbara Goff -- pt. VI. Athens and Greece. The panhellenism of Athenian tragedy / David Rosenbloom ; Hellenicity in later Euripidean tragedy / John Gibert ; Response / by A.J. Podlecki.
Summary:
This collection of essays reconsiders Greek tragedy as a reflection of Athenian political culture. The contributors explore the Athenianness of tragedy as the polyphonic discourse of tragedy; the presentation of Athens in some plays; tragedy as an Athenian form of choral performance and how family matters are presented.
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