Queer Euripides

Sarah Olsen is Assistant Professor of Classics at Williams College, USA.Mario Telò is Professor of Classics and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsQueer Euripides: An Introduction (Sarah Olsen, Williams College, USA and Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA)Part I. Temporalities1. Hippolytus: Euripides and Queer Theory at the Fin de Siècle and Now (Daniel Orrells, King’s College, London, UK)2. Rhesus: Tragic Wilderness in Queer Time (Oliver Baldwin, University of Reading, UK)3. Trojan Women: No Futures (Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)Part II. Escape/Refusal4. Iphigenia in Aulis: Perhaps (Not) (Ella Haselswerdt, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)5. Helen: Queering the Barbarian (Patrice Rankine, University of Richmond, USA)6. Children of Heracles: Queer Kinship: Profit, Vivisection, Kitsch (Ben Radcliffe, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)7. Suppliant Women: Adrastus’s Cute Lesbianism: Labor Irony Adhesion (Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA)Part III: Failure8. Medea: Failure and the Queer Escape (Sarah Nooter, University of Chicago, USA)9. Alcestis: Impossible Performance (Sean Gurd, University of Missouri, USA)10. Ion: Into the Queer Ionisphere (Kirk Ormand, Oberlin College, USA)Part IV: Relations 11. Heracles: Homosexual Panic and Irresponsible Reading (Alastair Blanshard, University of Queensland, Australia)12. Andromache: Catfight in Phthia (Sarah Olsen, Williams College, USA)13. Orestes: Polymorphously Per-verse: On Queer Metrology (David Youd, University of California, Berkeley, USA)Part V. Reproduction14. Hecuba: The Dead Child or Queer for a Day (Karen Bassi, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)15. Phoenician Women: “Deviant” Thebans Out of Time (Rosa Andújar, Kings’ College, London, UK)16. Electra: Parapoetics and Paraontology (Melissa Mueller, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)Part VI: Encounters17. Iphigenia in Tauris: Iphigenia and Artemis? Reading Queer/Performing Queer (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton College, USA and David Bullen, Royal Holloway, UK)18. Cyclops: A Philosopher Walks into a Satyr Play (Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley, USA)Part VII: Transitions19. Hippolytus: Queer Crossings: Following Anne Carson (Jonathan Goldberg, Emory University, USA)20. Aristophanes’ Women at the Thesmophoria: Reality and the Egg: An Oviparody of Euripides (L. Deihr, UC, Berkeley, USA)21. Bacchae: “An Excessively High Price to Pay for Being Reluctant to Emerge from the Closet?” (Isabel Ruffell, University of Glasgow, UK)NotesBibliographyIndex

Reading Queer Euripides from start to finish feels like receiving an invitation to a conversation, a collective, an in-crowd, a protest, a manifesto for change ... I feel deeply grateful to the editors of Queer Euripides and to its contributors for this volume that in its reckoning with the failures of Classics is no less full to the brim with ‘weedy hope’. I am trying to imagine the landscapes that will grow from such endings.