Looking at Persians

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nContributors\nForeword\nPost Script\nIntroduction: Persians in Context\n	Historical context\n	Persians and its tetralogy\n	Persians: A celebration of victory?\n	Staging Greek tragedy\n	Persians: Afterlife\n1 Persians on Stage\n2 Athens and Persia, 472 bce\n	Question 1: What did the Athenians know about the extent of the Persian Empire?\n	Question 2: What did the Athenians know about Persian history?\n	Question 3: What did the Athenians know about Persian queens?\n	Question 4: What did the Athenians know about Persian religion?\n	Question 5: What did the Athenians know about Persian language and culture?\n3 Persians’ First Audience\n4 Imperial Stirrings in Aeschylus’ Persians\n5 Homeric Echoes on the Battlefield of Persians\n	War in life and thought\n	The ‘catalogues of Persians’\n	Xerxes as an epic hero\n6 Individual and Collective in Persians\n7 Land, Sea and Freedom: The Force of Nature in Aeschylus’ Persians\n	Representing the physical world in the ancient Greek theatre\n	A fatal yoking\n	The land and seas of Greece\n	Elemental and celestial allies\n	Back to the earth – Persian and Athenian\n	‘Natural’ justice\n8 The Persians Love their Children, too: Common Humanity in Persians\n	What, as the play presents things, is the principal cause of the Persians’ defeat?\n	There, but for the fall of the lot, go we?\n	The wives and the mothers\n9 Atossa\n	Introduction\n	Atossa and the Chorus\n	Atossa and Darius\n10 Theatrical Ghosts in Persians and Elsewhere\n11 Words and Pictures\n12 National Theatre Wales: The Persians (2010)\nAeschylus’ Persians\nBibliography\nIndex