Why Athens?
A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics
Edited by D. M. Carter
Table of Contents
Introduction, Mark Griffith & D. M. Carter
I. Context
1. The glue of democracy? Tragedy, structure and finance, Peter Wilson
2. Plato, drama, and rhetoric, D. M. Carter
3. Nothing to do with Athens? Tragedians at the courts of tyrants, Anne Duncan
Response, Richard Seaford
II. Discourse
4. Athenian tragedy as democratic discourse, Peter Burian
5. Euripidean euboulia and the problem of 'tragic politics', Jon Hesk
6. 'Possessing an unbridled tongue': frank speech and speaking back in Euripides' Orestes, Elton T. E. Barker
Response, Malcolm Heath
III. Families Mark Griffith
7. Extended families, marriage, and inter-city relations in (later) Athenian tragedy: Dynasts II, Mark Griffith
8. Inheritance and the Athenian nature of Sophoclean tragedy, Eleanor OKell
Response, Peter Rhodes
IV. Choruses
9. Choroi achoroi: the Athenian politics of tragic choral identity, Sheila Murnaghan
10. Pity and panhellenic politics: choral emotion in Euripides' Hecuba and Trojan Women, Eirene Visvardi
Response, Ian Ruffell
V. Suppliants
11. Supplication and empire in Athenian tragedy, Angeliki Tzanetou
12. Athens in Euripides' Suppliants: ritual, politics, and theatre, Graziella Vinh
Response, Barbara Goff
VI. Athens and Greece
13. The panhellenism of Athenian tragedy, David Rosenbloom
14. Hellenicity in later Euripidean tragedy, John Gibert
Response, Anthony J. Podlecki
