James Barrett is Research Associate and Faculty Fellow in Classics at Colby College.

• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Aeschylus's Persians: The Messenger and Epic Narrative 2. The Literary Messenger, the Tragic Messenger 3. Euripides' Bacchae: The Spectator in the Text 4. Homer and the Art of Fiction in Sophocles' Electra 5. Rhesos and Poetic Tradition 6. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: Epistemology and Tragic Practice Appendix: Messengers in Greek Tragedy Works Cited Index

James Barrett is Research Associate and Faculty Fellow in Classics at Colby College.

• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Aeschylus's Persians: The Messenger and Epic Narrative 2. The Literary Messenger, the Tragic Messenger 3. Euripides' Bacchae: The Spectator in the Text 4. Homer and the Art of Fiction in Sophocles' Electra 5. Rhesos and Poetic Tradition 6. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: Epistemology and Tragic Practice Appendix: Messengers in Greek Tragedy Works Cited Index

James Barrett is Research Associate and Faculty Fellow in Classics at Colby College.

• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Aeschylus's Persians: The Messenger and Epic Narrative 2. The Literary Messenger, the Tragic Messenger 3. Euripides' Bacchae: The Spectator in the Text 4. Homer and the Art of Fiction in Sophocles' Electra 5. Rhesos and Poetic Tradition 6. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: Epistemology and Tragic Practice Appendix: Messengers in Greek Tragedy Works Cited Index