A collection of essays that brings new insight to the question of the continuing, and inexhaustible, fascination of Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE. There is particular reference to the visual - the myriad ways in which tragic texts are (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and (re)visualized through verbal and artistic description.

The Red-Gold Border ; I. VISUALIZING TRAGEDY ; Notes on Tragic Visualizing in the Iliad ; Visualizing the Choral: Epichoric Poetry, Ritual, and Elite Negotiation in Fifth-Century Thebes ; Outer Limits, Choral Space ; II. DRAMA ON DRAMA ; What's in a Wall? ; Euripides and Aristophanes: What Does Tragedy Teach? ; III. DRAMA AND VISUALIZATION: THE IMAGES OF TRAGEDY AND MYTH ; Looking at Shield Devices: Tragedy and Vase Painting ; The Invention of the Erinyes ; A New Pair of Pairs: Tragic Witnesses in Western Greek Vase-Painting ; Medea in Eleusis, in Princeton ; IV. VISUALIZING DRAMA: THE DIVINITIES OF TRAGEDY AND COMEDY ; Tragedy Personified ; Nike's Cosmetics: Dramatic Victory, the End of Comedy, and Beyond ; Everything to do with Dionysus? (Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, inv. MM 1962:7/ABV 374 no. 197) ; V. THE HISTORY OF TRAGIC VISION ; Pulling the Other? Longus on Tragedy ; Philostratus Visualizes the Tragic: Some Ecphrastic and Pictorial Receptions of Greek Tragedy in the Roman Era ; Envisioning the Tragic Chorus on the Modern Stage ; V. CODA ; Rencontre avec Froma ; Presence de Froma Zeitlin

Written by an international team of outstanding scholars Brings new perspectives to bear on tragedy's status as a privileged genre throughout Western theatrical history Explores current issues in the study of Greek drama, with particular emphases on the visual and on reception Analyses the intersections between Greek drama and other art forms, concentrating on ritual, performance, and art

Chris Kraus is Professor of Classics at Yale University. Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge University. Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Jas Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.

Written by an international team of outstanding scholars Brings new perspectives to bear on tragedy's status as a privileged genre throughout Western theatrical history Explores current issues in the study of Greek drama, with particular emphases on the visual and on reception Analyses the intersections between Greek drama and other art forms, concentrating on ritual, performance, and art