Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus

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