A Companion to Greek Tragedy

Justina Gregory is Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at Smith College. Her books include Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians (1991), a commentary on Euripides’ Hecuba (1999), and a translation of Aesop’s Fables (1975).

List of Illustrations x

Note on Contributors xi

Preface and Acknowledgments xvi

Abbreviations and Editions xvii

Part I Contexts 1

1 Fifth-Century Athenian History and Tragedy 3
Paula Debnar

2 Tragedy and Religion: The Problem of Origins 23
Scott Scullion

3 Dithyramb, Comedy, and Satyr-Play 38
Bernd Seidensticker

4 Tragedy’s Teaching 55
Neil Croally

5 Tragedy and the Early Greek Philosophical Tradition 71
William Allan

6 Tragedy, Rhetoric, and Performance Culture 83
Christopher Pelling

7 Pictures of Tragedy? 103
Jocelyn Penny Small

Part II Elements 119

8 Myth 121
Michael J. Anderson

9 Beginnings and Endings 136
Deborah H. Roberts

10 Lyric 149
Luigi Battezzato

11 Episodes 167
Michael R. Halleran

12 Music 183
Peter Wilson

13 Theatrical Production 194
John Davidson

Part III Approaches 213

14 Aeschylean Tragedy 215
Suzanne Saïd

15 Sophoclean Tragedy 233
Ruth Scodel

16 Euripidean Tragedy 251
Justina Gregory

17 Lost Tragedies: A Survey 271
Martin Cropp

18 Tragedy and Anthropology 293
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood

19 Values 305
Douglas Cairns

20 The Gods 321
Donald Mastronarde

21 Authority Figures 333
Mark Griffith

22 Women’s Voices 352
Judith Mossman

23 Marginal Figures 366
Mary Ebbott

Part IV Reception 377

24 Text and Transmission 379
David Kovacs

25 Learning from Suffering: Ancient Responses to Tragedy 394
Stephen Halliwell

26 Polis and Empire: Greek Tragedy in Rome 413
Vassiliki Panoussi

27 Italian Reception of Greek Tragedy 428
Salvatore Di Maria

28 Nietzsche on Greek Tragedy and the Tragic 444
Albert Henrichs

29 Greek Tragedy and Western Perceptions of Actors and Acting 459
Ismene Lada-Richards

30 The Theater of Innumerable Faces 472
Herman Altena

31 Justice in Translation: Rendering Ancient Greek Tragedy 490
Paul Woodruff

Bibliography 505

Index 541

Contents ix