Greek Tragedy

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, where she teaches tragedy, modern drama, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She is the author of Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women (1993), as well as the co-editor of Feminist Theory and the Classics (1993), Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World (2002), and Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (1998), for which she translated Euripides' Alcestis.

List of Figures. Preface. Introduction. Part I Tragedy in Its Athenian Context. 1 What Was Tragedy?. Definitions of Tragedy. What Did It Do?. Where Did It Come From?. How Were the Plays Performed?. 2 Tragedy and the Polis. Democracy. Empire and Hegemony. Performance Setting. Rhetoric. Referentiality. Ideology. Nothing to Do with the City?. 3 Tragedy and Greek Religion. Dionysos. Sacred Time and Space. Ritual Practices. Ritual Practice in Tragedy. Greek Gods and Mortals. Tragedy and Myth. Euripides' Bacchai. Part II Thematic Approaches. 4 War and Empire. Aeschylus' Persians. Aeschylus' Oresteia. Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis. 5 Family Romance and Revenge in the House of Atreus. Euripides' Elektra. Sophocles' Elektra. 6 Victims and Victimizers. Euripides' Trojan Women. Euripides' Hekabe. Euripides' Medea. 7 The King and I. Sophocles' Antigone. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos. 8 Epilogue: Modern Performances (with Sue Blundell). References. Index