The Retrospective Muse

Froma I. Zeitlin is Ewing Professor Emeritus of Greek Language and Literature and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She is the author of several books including Under the Sign of the Shield and Playing the Other and coeditor of Before Sexuality and Nothing to Do with Dionysos?

Introduction

Part 1:: Erotics, Myth, Gender

1. Eros Tyrannos

2. Configurations of Rape in Greek Myth

3. Religion and Erotics in the Ancient Novel

4. Gendered Ambiguities, Hybrid Formations, and theImaginary of the Body in Achilles Tatius

Part II: Encounters with the Divine

5. Apollo and Dionysus: Starting from Birth

6. Cultic Models of the Female: Rites of Dionysus and Demeter

7. Sacrifices Holy and Unholy in Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris

Part III: Urban Mythographies Cities on Stage

8. Staging Dionysus Between Thebes and Athens

9. Patterns of Gender in Aeschylean Drama: Seven Against Thebes and the Danaid Trilogy in Argos

10. Troy and Tragedy: The Conscience of Hellas

11. Aristophanes: The Performance of Utopia in the Ecclesiazousae

Part IV: Reception: Later Echoes

12. Radical Theater: Richard Schechner's Dionysus in 69