Companion to Aeschylus

Jacques A. Bromberg is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published essays on Greek literature, classical receptions in Latin America, global studies and historical globalization, and the history and philosophy of sport.Peter Burian is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Duke University. He has published essays on and translations of ancient Greek texts and the reception of classical culture in the modern world.

• List of Figures xiiPreface and Acknowledgements xiiiNotes on Contributors xivIntroduction: Aeschylus and His Place in History 1Peter BurianPart I Aeschylus in His Time 131 Democracy's Age of Bronze: Aeschylus's Plays and Athenian History, 508/7–454 bce 15Robert W. Wallace2 Aeschylus, Lyric and Epic 27P. J. Finglass3 Tragedy before Aeschylus 40P. J. Finglass4 Aeschylean Drama and Intellectual History 47Jacques A. Bromberg5 Aeschylus in Sicily between Tyranny and Democracy 61Malcolm Bell, IIIPart II Aeschylus as Playwright 756 Persians 77A. F. Garvie7 Seven against Thebes 88Isabelle Torrance8 Fear of Foreign Women in Aeschylus's Suppliants 99Rebecca Futo Kennedy9 Disorder, Resolution and Language: The Oresteia 114David H. Porter10 Eumenides: Justice, Gender, the Gods and the City 130Peter Burian11 Intertheatricality and Narrative Structure in the Electra Plays 145Kirk Ormand12 Prometheus Bound: The Principle of Hope 158I. A. Ruffell13 Slices from Aeschylus's Feast: The Fragmentary Works 171Anthony Podlecki14 Aeschylean Satyr Drama 185Carl Shaw15 The Tetralogy 201Alan H. Sommerstein16 Visualising the Stage 214A. C. Duncan17 The Choruses of Aeschylus 230Eva Stehle18 Music, Dance and Metre in Aeschylean Tragedy 242Naomi Weiss19 Aeschylus: Language and Style 254R. B. Rutherford20 The Long View in Aeschylus: Intergenerational Myth-Making through the "Other" 267Arum ParkPart III Aeschylus and Greek Society 28121 Aeschylus and Subversion of Ritual 283Richard Seaford22 Ghosts, Demons and Gods: Supernatural Challenges 295Amit Shilo23 Inscribing Justice in Aeschylean Drama 310Sarah Nooter24 Race in Aeschylus's Suppliant Women and Persians 323Sarah Derbew25 Aeschylus's Persians and the "Just War" 334Sydnor Roy26 Aeschylus and History 346Emily Baragwanath27 Aeschylus and Athenian Law 361F. S. Naiden28 Aeschylus's Athens between Hegemony and Empire 373David RosenbloomPart IV The Influence of Aeschylus 38929 Critical Approaches to Aeschylus, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present 391Mark Griffith30 The Reception of Aeschylus in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries 412C. W. Marshall31 The Transmission of Aeschylus: The Miracle of Survival 425Marsh McCall32 The Bow of Ulysses: Aeschylus and his Translators 437Deborah H. Roberts33 Variations on a Theme: Prometheus 455Theodore Ziolkowski34 Myth, History and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Reception of the Oresteia 467Adam Lecznar35 Three Landmarks in the Reception of the Oresteia in Twentieth-Century Drama 479Vayos Liapis36 Oresteia on Stage: Koun, Stein, Hall and Mnouchkine 491Hallie Rebecca Marshall37 Transforming Aeschylus on the Modern Stage 505Helene P. Foley38 Applied Aeschylus 518Peter Meineck39 Teaching the Oresteia as a Work for the Theatre 533Robin Mitchell-BoyaskEpilogue 544Jacques A. BrombergIndex 558