Features 17 essays considering the text, interpretation and cultural context of Greek tragedy. This book includes studies of single plays, of major themes in each of the three tragedians, of modern approaches to tragic text and interpretation, and of the genre's social, political and religious background.

Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh) and Vayos Liapis (UniversitU de MontrUal), Introduction; Oliver Taplin (Magdalen College, Oxford), AeschylusAe Persai - the Entry of Tragedy into the Celebration Culture of the 470s?; A. J. Podlecki (University of British Columbia), aeGrandiloquus saepe usque ad vitiumAe: Aiskhylean aeBombastAe Reconsidered; Martin West (All Souls College, Oxford), King and Demons in Aeschylus; Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Christ Church, Oxford), Nineteen Notes on Aeschylus, Agamemnon; Christopher Collard (The QueenAes College, Oxford), Tragic Persons in Pieces, in Fragments at First, and Lastly in Choephori 211; Vittorio Citti (UniversitO degli studi di Trento), Some remarks on Methods of Critics and Editors of Aeschylus from the 17th to the 19th Century; Jean Bollack (UniversitU de Lille), Prometheus Bound: Drama and Enactment; Martin Hose (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitot, Munich), Vaticinium post eventum; Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh), Virtue and Vicissitude: the Paradoxes of the Ajax; P. E. Easterling (Newnham College, Cambridge), The Death of Oedipus, and What Happened Next; David B. Robinson (University of Edinburgh), Stars and Heroines in EuripidesAe Helen (Helen 375-85); Pierre Judet de La Combe (UniversitU de Lille), An Instance of Euripidean aeModernismAe: Orestes 1-3; Scott Scullion (Worcester College, Oxford), The Opening of EuripidesAe Archelaus; Vayos Liapis (UniversitU de MontrUal), aeGhosts, WandAering Here and ThereAe: Orestes the Revenant in Athens; Alan Sommerstein (University of Nottingham), Rape and Consent in Athenian Tragedy; Malcolm Heath (University of Leeds), The aeSocial FunctionAe of Tragedy: Clarifications and Questions; Elizabeth Craik (University of St Andrews), Tragedy as Treatment: Medical Analogies in AristotleAes Poetics.