Thomas M. Falkner is professor of classical studies and dean of the faculty at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. Nancy Felson is professor of classics at the University of Georgia in Athens. David Konstan is professor of classics and comparative literature at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

• Part 1 IdeologyChapter 2 Theorizing Athenian Imperialism and the Athenian StateChapter 3 Women and Democracy in Ancient GreeceChapter 4 Utopia and Myth in Aristophanes' EcclesiazousaeChapter 5 Body / Politics: Is There a History of Reading?Part 6 PerformanceChapter 7 Homer and Plato at the Panathenaia: Synchronic and Diachronic PerspectivesChapter 8 Sicilian Folktales, Cognitive Psychology, and Oral TheoryChapter 9 Madness Visible: Tragic Ideology and Poetic Authority in Sophocles' AjaxPart 10 DialogueChapter 11 Sophoklean DialoguesChapter 12 The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and ThucydidesChapter 13 Platonic MimesisPart 14 Contextualizing ClassicsChapter 15 Gender StudiesChapter 16 Cultural Studies and Classics: Contrasts and OpportunitiesChapter 17 From Film Analysis to Oral-Formulaic Theory: The Case of the Yellow OilskinsChapter 18 Mass Market RomansChapter 19 Arethusa and the Politics of Criticism

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