Greek Tragedy and the Historian

Greek Tragedy and the Historian (2001)\r......Page 1
ISBN: 0198149875......Page 4
Preface......Page 5
--> Contents......Page 7
List of Plates......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 10
Contributors......Page 11
THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS......Page 13
POLITICS......Page 21
IDEOLOGY AND NATIONAL STEREOTYPES......Page 25
2 - Constructing the Heroic - P. E. EASTERLING......Page 33
IMAGES OF THE COMMUNITY......Page 40
3 - Tragic Filters for History: Euripides\' Supplices and Sophocles\' Philoctetes - A. M. BOWIE......Page 51
ANCIENT EVIDENCE......Page 52
EURIPIDES, SUPPLICES......Page 57
PHILOCTETES......Page 68
4 - The Theatre Audience, the Demos, and the Suppliants of Aeschylus - ALAN H. SOMMERSTEIN......Page 75
5 - Leading the Tragic Khoros: Tragic Prestige in the Democratic City - PETER WILSON......Page 93
6 - The Place and Status of Foreigners in Athenian Tragedy - PIERRE VIDAL-NAQUET......Page 121
7 - Between Public and Private: Tragedy and Athenian Experience of Rhetoric - STEPHEN HALLIWELL......Page 133
8 - Gods Cruel and Kind: Tragic and Civic Theology - ROBERT PARKER......Page 155
TRAGEDY AND RELIGION: STRATEGIES OF READING......Page 173
GODS IN TRAGEDY AND IN LIVED RELIGION: THE PROBLEM......Page 175
LIVED RELIGION: DIVINE EPITHET AND DIVINE PERSONALITY......Page 176
Introduction......Page 182
Euripides\' Iphigeneia in Tauris......Page 183
Euripides\' Hippolytos......Page 187
GODS IN TRAGEDY AND IN LIVED RELIGION: CONCLUSIONS......Page 196
10 - The Ecstasy and the Tragedy: Varieties of Religious Experience in Art, Drama, and Society - ROBIN OSBORNE......Page 199
TRAGEDY AS EVIDENCE......Page 224
TRAGEDY AND IDEOLOGY......Page 235
References......Page 248
Index of Passages Cited......Page 268
General Index......Page 276