Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond

Bartłomiej Bednarek, Ph.D. (2015), is a post-doc fellow at the University of Warsaw. He has published books and articles on religion and mythology, literature and theatre, gender and sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroductionShape of This Book1 The Lycurgus Myth before Theatre1.1 Iliad 6.130–140: Who Are You, My Dear?1.2 Eumelus and the Early Dionysian Saga1.3 Presuppositions of the Homeric Passage: All that We Will Never Know about Life, Death, and Lycurgus1.4 Stesichorus’ fr. 276 (Finglass): The Gift of Dionysus1.5 Conclusions2 Aeschylus’ Lycurgeia2.1 Introduction2.2 Tragic Trilogy2.3 The End of Lycurgus in Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Related Texts2.4 Orpheus in Fabula2.5 Reconstruction of the Lycurgeia2.6 Lycurgus satyricus2.7 Appendix I: Euripides’ Bacchae and Its Role in Dionysian Imagery2.8 Appendix II: Between Lycurgus’ and Pentheus’ Iconography3 Naevius’ Lycurgus3.1 Fragments3.2 Beyond Fragments3.3 An Outline of the Plot3.4 The Readership of Naevius4 Lost in Translation: Lycurgus between Aeschylus, Naevius, Poetry, and the Visual Arts4.1 From Aeschylus to Naevius4.2 Aeschylus’ Afterlife4.3 Plays with Lycurgus in the Title4.4 Iconography4.5 Instead of Conclusions4.6 Appendix: The Location of Lycurgus’ Kingdom and the Chronology of His Myth5 Lycurgus monocrepis5.1 Introduction5.2 Lycurgus’ Self-Mutilation in Greek Texts5.3 Lycurgus’ Self-Mutilation in Latin Texts5.4 The Iconography of Lycurgus monocrepis5.5 The History of Research5.6 ConclusionsGeneral ConclusionsBibliographyIndex