P. J. Finglass is Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek and Head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol. He has published Sophocles (2019) in the series Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics, as well as editions of Sophocles' Oedipus the King (2018), Ajax (2011), and Electra (2007), of Stesichorus (2014), and of Pindar's Pythian Eleven (2007) in the series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; edited The Cambridge Companion to Sappho (with Adrian Kelly, 2019) and Stesichorus in Context (Cambridge, 2015); and edits the journal Classical Quarterly. Lyndsay Coo is Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on lost and fragmentary ancient Greek tragedy and satyr play. She is writing a commentary on Sophocles' fragmentary Trojan plays, and is co-editor (with Anna Uhlig) of Aeschylus at Play: Studies in Aeschylean Satyr Drama (2019).

• Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction Lyndsay Coo and P. J. Finglass; Part I. Themes: 2. Female violence towards women and girls in Greek tragedy Fiona McHardy; 3. Greek tragedy and the theatre of sisterhood Lyndsay Coo; 4. Women in love in the fragmentary plays of Sophocles Alan H. Sommerstein; 5. Heterosexual bonding in the fragments of Euripides Helene P. Foley; 6. Suffering in silence: victims of rape on the tragic stage P. J. Finglass; Part II. Plays: 7. Dancing on the plain of the sea: gender and theatrical space in Aeschylus' Achilles trilogy Anna Uhlig; 8. Europe revisited: an experiment in characterisation Niall W. Slater; 9. When mothers turn bad: the perversion of the maternal ideal in Sophocles' Eurypylus Robert Cowan; 10. The music one desires: Hypsipyle and Aristophanes' 'muse of Euripides' Caleb Simone; 11. Fragmented self and fragmented responsibility: Pasiphae in Euripides' Cretans Luigi Battezzato; 12. Female agency in Euripides' Hypsipyle James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard; 13. Making Medea Medea Matthew Wright; Bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of Greek; Index of passages discussed.

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P. J. Finglass is Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek and Head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol. He has published Sophocles (2019) in the series Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics, as well as editions of Sophocles' Oedipus the King (2018), Ajax (2011), and Electra (2007), of Stesichorus (2014), and of Pindar's Pythian Eleven (2007) in the series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; edited The Cambridge Companion to Sappho (with Adrian Kelly, 2019) and Stesichorus in Context (Cambridge, 2015); and edits the journal Classical Quarterly. Lyndsay Coo is Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on lost and fragmentary ancient Greek tragedy and satyr play. She is writing a commentary on Sophocles' fragmentary Trojan plays, and is co-editor (with Anna Uhlig) of Aeschylus at Play: Studies in Aeschylean Satyr Drama (2019).

• Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction Lyndsay Coo and P. J. Finglass; Part I. Themes: 2. Female violence towards women and girls in Greek tragedy Fiona McHardy; 3. Greek tragedy and the theatre of sisterhood Lyndsay Coo; 4. Women in love in the fragmentary plays of Sophocles Alan H. Sommerstein; 5. Heterosexual bonding in the fragments of Euripides Helene P. Foley; 6. Suffering in silence: victims of rape on the tragic stage P. J. Finglass; Part II. Plays: 7. Dancing on the plain of the sea: gender and theatrical space in Aeschylus' Achilles trilogy Anna Uhlig; 8. Europe revisited: an experiment in characterisation Niall W. Slater; 9. When mothers turn bad: the perversion of the maternal ideal in Sophocles' Eurypylus Robert Cowan; 10. The music one desires: Hypsipyle and Aristophanes' 'muse of Euripides' Caleb Simone; 11. Fragmented self and fragmented responsibility: Pasiphae in Euripides' Cretans Luigi Battezzato; 12. Female agency in Euripides' Hypsipyle James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard; 13. Making Medea Medea Matthew Wright; Bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of Greek; Index of passages discussed.

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P. J. Finglass is Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek and Head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol. He has published Sophocles (2019) in the series Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics, as well as editions of Sophocles' Oedipus the King (2018), Ajax (2011), and Electra (2007), of Stesichorus (2014), and of Pindar's Pythian Eleven (2007) in the series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; edited The Cambridge Companion to Sappho (with Adrian Kelly, 2019) and Stesichorus in Context (Cambridge, 2015); and edits the journal Classical Quarterly. Lyndsay Coo is Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on lost and fragmentary ancient Greek tragedy and satyr play. She is writing a commentary on Sophocles' fragmentary Trojan plays, and is co-editor (with Anna Uhlig) of Aeschylus at Play: Studies in Aeschylean Satyr Drama (2019).

• Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction Lyndsay Coo and P. J. Finglass; Part I. Themes: 2. Female violence towards women and girls in Greek tragedy Fiona McHardy; 3. Greek tragedy and the theatre of sisterhood Lyndsay Coo; 4. Women in love in the fragmentary plays of Sophocles Alan H. Sommerstein; 5. Heterosexual bonding in the fragments of Euripides Helene P. Foley; 6. Suffering in silence: victims of rape on the tragic stage P. J. Finglass; Part II. Plays: 7. Dancing on the plain of the sea: gender and theatrical space in Aeschylus' Achilles trilogy Anna Uhlig; 8. Europe revisited: an experiment in characterisation Niall W. Slater; 9. When mothers turn bad: the perversion of the maternal ideal in Sophocles' Eurypylus Robert Cowan; 10. The music one desires: Hypsipyle and Aristophanes' 'muse of Euripides' Caleb Simone; 11. Fragmented self and fragmented responsibility: Pasiphae in Euripides' Cretans Luigi Battezzato; 12. Female agency in Euripides' Hypsipyle James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard; 13. Making Medea Medea Matthew Wright; Bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of Greek; Index of passages discussed.

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