Euripides: Children of Heracles

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nFigures\nMap\nPreface\n1 Action and Expectation\n	Audience anticipations\n	Setting the stage\n	Prologue (1–72)\n	Entrance song of the chorus (parodos, 73–117)\n	First episode (118–352)\n	First ode (stasimon) (353–80)\n	Second episode (381–607)\n	Second ode (608–29)\n	Third episode (630–747)\n	Third ode (748–83)\n	Fourth episode (784–891)\n	Fourth ode (892–927)\n	Exodos (928–1055)\n	The ending\n2 Summing the Parts\n	(a) The Heraclids\n	(b) The relationship of the Heraclids with Athens\n	(c) Plot types\n3 Heracles and Other Imagined Figures\n	Heracles\n	Theseus and Athens\n	Hyllus\n	Eurystheus the persecutor\n4 The Power of the Weak\n	Refugees and suppliants\n	Heralds\n	The prisoner of war\n	The human sacrifice\n	Children and old men\n	Children\n	Old men\n	Women\n5 Then and Now\n	Dating Euripides\n	Possible Athenian performance contexts\n	A classical reperformance?\n	Traces of modern performance: the Archive of the Performance of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD)\n	Eighteenth-century revival as romance: Danchet, Marmontel, Delap and the Daughter\n	Twentieth-century Greece under oppressive regimes\n	In our time: modern refugee crises\n	Children of Heracles in the hands of scholars\n	Epilogue\nAppendix: Fragments\nSelected Chronology\nGuide to Further Reading\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex