Crisis on Stage: Tragedy and Comedy in Late Fifth-Century Athens

Crisis on Stage: Tragedy and Comedy in Late Fifth-Century Athens......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 14
I. Sophocles......Page 18
Ruth Scodel: Sophocles’ Philoctetes and Political Nostalgia......Page 20
Sophie Mills: Genos, Gennaios, and Athens in the Later Tragedies of Sophocles......Page 36
P. J. Finglass: Sophocles’ Theseus......Page 58
Andrea Rodighiero: The Sense of Place: Oedipus at Colonus, ‘Political’ Geography, and the Defence of a Way of Life......Page 72
Suzanne Saïd: Athens and Athenian Space in Oedipus at Colonus......Page 98
I. Athens as a Space......Page 99
A. The Scenic Space......Page 101
B. Colonus Offstage......Page 105
II. Athens as a Political Entity......Page 113
II. Euripides......Page 118
1. Premise......Page 120
2a. Orpheus in Jason’s Rhesis......Page 121
2b. Semele and Aurora in Hippolytus......Page 123
3. Paradigmatic Background: The Genealogy of Phaedra in Hippolytus......Page 125
4a. Orpheus in Iphigenia at Aulis......Page 127
4b. Ino in Medea......Page 128
5. The Catachresis of the Paradigm: The Gorgon in Bacchae......Page 130
6. Paradigms as Objects of Debate: Theseus and Heracles......Page 131
7. Tantalus: The Myth Refused......Page 132
8. Conclusions......Page 134
Daniel Iakov: Fragmenting the Self: Society and Psychology in Euripides’ Electra and Ion......Page 138
Claude Calame: Myth and Performance on the Athenian Stage: Praxithea, Erechtheus, their Daughters, and the Aetiology of Autochthony......Page 156
1. Erichthonius-Erechtheus and the Hyacinthides: Dramatic Renditions of Heroic Narratives......Page 158
2. Praxithea the Athenian: Between Maternal Duties and Civic Values......Page 161
3. Athena and Poseidon: Tragic Aetiologies......Page 165
4. From the Erectheum to the Parthenon......Page 170
5. Athenian Autochthony between Male and Female......Page 175
Konstantina Gakopoulou: Euripides’ Bacchae: The End of an Era or the Beginning of a New One?......Page 180
Horst-Dieter Blume: Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis: War and Human Sacrifice......Page 198
1. Introduction......Page 206
2. Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis and Tragic Education......Page 207
3. Mythical Paradigms of Wise Policy......Page 212
4. Iphigenia’s Firm Resolve: Panhellenism and Democratic Ideology......Page 222
5. Conclusion......Page 234
II. Antiope, Hypsipyle, and Phoenissae......Page 236
III. Athens Seen as a Family......Page 239
III.1. The Sick City: The Arrogance of the Sons and the Fathers who Fail to Restore the patrios politeia......Page 240
III.2. The Concept of Gradual Decay......Page 246
III.3. Generational Conflict: Alcibiades and Nicias, Eteocles, Polynices, and Oedipus......Page 247
III.4. Fraternal Conflict......Page 251
IV. The Return of the Father......Page 254
V. Conclusion......Page 255
Ioanna Karamanou: Euripides’ ‘Family Reunion Plays’ and their Socio-Political Resonances......Page 258
III. Aristophanes and Greek Comedy......Page 270
Introduction......Page 272
Body and the Genre......Page 276
Body and Mask......Page 278
The Female Body and the Acropolis in Lysistrata......Page 280
A Mythic-Ritual Poetics of Lysistrata: Playing the Maiden or, New Year and Initiation......Page 284
Heortological Facts: Skira, Arrhephoria, Adonia, War, and the Seed Box......Page 294
Sex and the Maiden – or, from Chastity to Remarriage: A Symbolic Web of Allusions in Lysistrata......Page 299
Conclusion......Page 306
Antonis Tsakmakis: Persians, Oligarchs, and Festivals: The Date of Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae......Page 308
Ian Storey: Comedy and the Crises......Page 320
IV. Greek Drama......Page 338
Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou: The ‘Dionysiac’ Plays of Aeschylus and Euripides’ Bacchae: Reaffirming Traditional Cult in Late Fifth Century......Page 340
Edonoi......Page 342
Dionysiac Cult and Ritual: Edonoi fr. 57 Radt......Page 343
Interrogating the Effeminate Stranger: Edonoi frr. 59, 61 –61a, 62 Radt......Page 346
The Epiphany of Dionysus: Edonoi fr.* 58 Radt......Page 350
Vassarae or Vassarides......Page 351
Pentheus......Page 352
Xantriae......Page 353
Conclusions......Page 355
Alan H. Sommerstein: Problem Kids: Young Males and Society from Electra to Bacchae......Page 360
Francis Dunn: Metatheatre and Crisis in Euripides’ Bacchae and Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus......Page 376
Thalia Papadopoulou: Altruism, Sovereignty, and the Degeneration of Imperial Hegemony in Greek Tragedy and Thucydides......Page 394
Introduction......Page 422
Democratic Politics: History as Degeneration......Page 425
Euripides’ Orestes: Mobs and Aristocratic Outlaws......Page 433
Chrēstoi vs. Ponēroi: The Frogs......Page 448
Conclusion: Sōtēria......Page 457
Notes on Contributors......Page 460
Bibliography......Page 466
General Index......Page 512