Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus

Rebecca Futo Kennedy, PhD (2003), Denison University, is Associate Professor of Classical Studies. She has published on Greek tragedy, especially Aeschylus, the lives of women immigrants in classical Athens, and theories of ethnicity and human difference in the ancient world.Contributors are: Larissa Atkison, Geoffrey Bakewell, Ryan K. Balot, Jacques Bromberg, Stratos Constantinidis, Fabien Desset, Michael Ewans, Ana Gonzalez-Rivas Fernandez, George Harrison, Tom Hawkins , Marianne McDonald, Dana Lacourse Munteanu, Patrick J. Murphy, Sebastiana Nervegna, Fredrick Porcheddu, Brett M. Rogers, David Rosenbloom, Arlene Saxonhouse, Richard Seaford, Gabrielle Sevilla, Christos Simelidis, David G. Smith, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Barbara Witucki, Amanda Wrigley, Gonda Van Steen, Theodore Ziolkowski.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsAuthor BiographiesIntroduction: The Reception of AeschylusRebecca Futo KennedyPart 1: Pre-Modern Receptions1 The Reception of Aeschylus in SicilyDavid G. Smith2 The Comedians’ AeschylusDavid Rosenbloom3 Aristotle’s Reception of Aeschylus: Reserved Without MaliceDana Lacourse Munteanu4 Aeschylus in the Hellenistic PeriodSebastiana Nervegna5 Aeschylus in the Roman EmpireGeorge W. M. Harrison6 Aeschylus in ByzantiumChristos SimelidisPart 2: Modern Receptions7 Aeschylus and OperaMichael Ewans8 Aeschylus in GermanyTheodore Ziolkowski9 Inglorious Barbarians: Court Intrigue and Military Disaster Strike Xerxes, “The Sick Man of Europe”Gonda Van Steen10 Transtextual Transformations of Prometheus Bound in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound: Prometheus’ Gifts to HumankindFabien Desset11 Aeschylus and Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary ShelleyAna González-Rivas Fernández12 An Aeschylean Waterloo: Responding to War from the Oresteia to Vanity FairBarbara Witucki13 Form and Money in Wagner’s Ring and Aeschylean TragedyRichard Seaford14 Eumenides and Newmenides: Academic Furies in Edwardian CambridgePatrick J. Murphy and Fredrick Porcheddu15 The Broadhead Hypothesis: Did Aeschylus Perform Word Repetition in Persians?Stratos E. Constantinidis16 Persians On French Television: An Opera—Oratorio Echoing the Algerian WarGabriel Sevilla17 Aeschylus’ Oresteia on British TelevisionAmanda Wrigley18 Orestes On Trial in Africa: Pasolini’s Appunti Per un’Orestiade Africana and Sissako’s BamakoTom Hawkins19 Reception of the Plays of Aeschylus in AfricaKevin J. Wetmore, Jr.20 In Search of Prometheus: Aeschylean Wanderings in Latin AmericaJacques A. Bromberg21 Avatars of Aeschylus: O’Neill to Herzog/GolderMarianne McDonald22 The Overlooked οἰκονομία of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Stanley Kubrick’s The ShiningGeoffrey Bakewell23 “Now Harkonnen Shall Kill Harkonnen”: Aeschylus, Dynastic Violence, and Twofold Tragedies in Frank Herbert’s DuneBrett M. Rogers24 “Save Our City”: The Curious Absence of Aeschylus in Modern Political ThoughtArlene W. Saxonhouse25 Political Theory in Aeschylean Drama: Ancient Themes and their Contemporary ReceptionLarissa Atkison and Ryan K. BalotIndex

''Although, as Kennedy (Denison Univ.) states, this is not a comprehensive volume, it certainly lives up to her hope, which is that readers “come away with some sense of the scope of Aeschylus’ influence in the world."'' - H.M. Roisman, in: Choice 2018.55.10"Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus is bold in charting new territories of reception and questioning what we think we know about the process of reception itself." - D.R. Alley, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.01.10"[A]ltogether, the book is a thoroughly satisfying read.(...) Special mention should also go to the stimulating pair of chapters that conclude the volume (...). These contributions not only point to where fertile soil has been found, but, gratifyingly for any classicist, also illustrate how these ancient texts may have more to offer in new fields, suggesting new questions for the study of the humanities at large." - Lucy Jackson, in: Translation and Literature 28 (2019)"This valuable contribution to the burgeoning library on the receptions of Greek literature is the second Brill collection on the afterlife of Aeschylus, providing both a useful adjunct to that book[1] and an interesting take on the current state of reception studies in the English-speaking world (where all but four of its twenty-eight contributors teach). Its range is vast." - Peter Burian, Duke University, in: CJ-Online 2021.03.02.