A companion to Aeschylus /
"This volume, written by a team of scholars that includes some of the most prominent senior Aeschyleans alongside extraordinarily accomplished younger scholars, is intended to explore, in so far as a single book can, every aspect of Aeschylus's art, including the historical, intellectual,...
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
2023.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to the ancient world
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Aeschylus and his place in history / Peter Burian
- Democracy's age of bronze : Aeschylus's plays and Athenian history, 508-454 BCE / Robert Wallace
- Aeschylus, lyric, and epic / P.J. Finglass
- Tragedy before Aeschylus / P.J. Finglass
- Aeschylean tragedy as intellectual history / Jacques A. Bromberg
- Aeschylus in Sicily between democracy and tyranny / Malcom Bell
- Persians / A.F. Garvie
- Seven against Thebes / Isabelle Torrance
- Suppliants / Rebecca Futo Kennedy
- The Oresteia / David Porter
- Eumenides : justice, gender, the gods and the city / Peter Burian
- Intertheatricality and narrative structure in the Electra plays / Kirk Ormand
- Prometheus bound : the principle of hope / Isabel Ruffell
- Slices from the feast : the fragments / Anthony Podlecki
- Aeschylean Satyr drama / Carl Shaw
- The tetralogy / Alan Sommerstein
- Visualizing the stage / A.C. Duncan
- The choruses of Aeschylus / Eva Stehle
- Music, dance and meter in Aeschylean tragedy / Naomi Weiss
- Aeschylus : language and style / Richard Rutherford
- The long view in Aeschylus : intergenerational myth-making through the "other" / Arum Park
- Aeschylus and subversion of ritual / Richard Seaford
- Ghosts, demons, and gods : supernatural challenges / Amit Shilo
- Inscribing justice in Aeschylean drama / Sarah Nooter
- Race in Aeschylus's Persians and suppliant women / Sarah Derbew
- Aeschylus's Persians and the "just war" / Sydnor Roy
- Aeschylus and history / Emily Baragwanath
- Aeschylus and Athenian law / Fred Naiden
- Athens between hegemony and empire / David Rosenbloom
- Critical approaches to Aeschylus today / Mark Griffith
- The reputation and influence of Aeschylus in antiquity / C.W. Mashall
- The transmission of Aeschylus : the miracle of survival / Marsh McCall
- The bow of Ulysses : Aeschylus and his translators / Deborah Roberts
- Variations on a theme : Prometheus / Theodore Ziolkowski
- Myth, history and revolution in the nineteenth-century reception of the Oresteia / Adam Lecznar
- Three landmarks in the reception of the Oresteia in 20th-century drama / Vayos Liapis
- Oresteia on stage : Kuhn, Stein, Hall, and Mnouchkine / Hallie Rebecca Marshall
- Transforming Aeschylus on the modern stage / Helene P. Foley
- Applied Aeschylus / Peter Meineck
- Teaching the Oresteia as a work for the theater / Robin Mitchell-Boyask.
