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A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS In A Companion to Aeschylus, a team of eminent Aeschyleans and brilliant younger scholars delivers an insightful and original multi-authored examination—the first comprehensive one in English—of the works of the earliest surviving Greek tragedian. This book explores Aeschylean drama, and its theatrical, historical, philosophical, religious, and socio-political contexts, as well as the receptions and influence of Aeschylus from antiquity to the present day. This companion offers readers thorough examinations of Aeschylus as a product of his time, including his place in the early years of the Athenian democracy and his immediate and ongoing impact on tragedy. It also provides comprehensive explorations of all the surviving plays, including Prometheus Bound, which many scholars have concluded is not by Aeschylus. A Companion to Aeschylus is an ideal resource for students encountering the work of Aeschylus for the first time as well as more advanced scholars seeking incisive treatment of his individual works, their cultural context and their enduring significance. Written in an accessible format, with the Greek translated into English and technical terminology avoided as much as possible, the book belongs in the library of anyone looking for a fresh and authoritative account of works of continuing interest and importance to readers and theatre-goers alike.

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List of Figures xii Preface and Acknowledgements xiii Notes on Contributors xiv Introduction: Aeschylus and His Place in History 1 Peter Burian Part I Aeschylus in His Time 13 1 Democracy's Age of Bronze: Aeschylus's Plays and Athenian History, 508/7–454 bce 15 Robert W. Wallace 2 Aeschylus, Lyric and Epic 27 P. J. Finglass 3 Tragedy before Aeschylus 40 P. J. Finglass 4 Aeschylean Drama and Intellectual History 47 Jacques A. Bromberg 5 Aeschylus in Sicily between Tyranny and Democracy 61 Malcolm Bell, III Part II Aeschylus as Playwright 75 6 Persians 77 A. F. Garvie 7 Seven against Thebes 88 Isabelle Torrance 8 Fear of Foreign Women in Aeschylus's Suppliants 99 Rebecca Futo Kennedy 9 Disorder, Resolution and Language: The Oresteia 114 David H. Porter 10 Eumenides: Justice, Gender, the Gods and the City 130 Peter Burian 11 Intertheatricality and Narrative Structure in the Electra Plays 145 Kirk Ormand 12 Prometheus Bound: The Principle of Hope 158 I. A. Ruffell 13 Slices from Aeschylus's Feast: The Fragmentary Works 171 Anthony Podlecki 14 Aeschylean Satyr Drama 185 Carl Shaw 15 The Tetralogy 201 Alan H. Sommerstein 16 Visualising the Stage 214 A. C. Duncan 17 The Choruses of Aeschylus 230 Eva Stehle 18 Music, Dance and Metre in Aeschylean Tragedy 242 Naomi Weiss 19 Aeschylus: Language and Style 254 R. B. Rutherford 20 The Long View in Aeschylus: Intergenerational Myth-Making through the "Other" 267 Arum Park Part III Aeschylus and Greek Society 281 21 Aeschylus and Subversion of Ritual 283 Richard Seaford 22 Ghosts, Demons and Gods: Supernatural Challenges 295 Amit Shilo 23 Inscribing Justice in Aeschylean Drama 310 Sarah Nooter 24 Race in Aeschylus's Suppliant Women and Persians 323 Sarah Derbew 25 Aeschylus's Persians and the "Just War" 334 Sydnor Roy 26 Aeschylus and History 346 Emily Baragwanath 27 Aeschylus and Athenian Law 361 F. S. Naiden 28 Aeschylus's Athens between Hegemony and Empire 373 David Rosenbloom Part IV The Influence of Aeschylus 389 29 Critical Approaches to Aeschylus, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present 391 Mark Griffith 30 The Reception of Aeschylus in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries 412 C. W. Marshall 31 The Transmission of Aeschylus: The Miracle of Survival 425 Marsh McCall 32 The Bow of Ulysses: Aeschylus and his Translators 437 Deborah H. Roberts 33 Variations on a Theme: Prometheus 455 Theodore Ziolkowski 34 Myth, History and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Reception of the Oresteia 467 Adam Lecznar 35 Three Landmarks in the Reception of the Oresteia in Twentieth-Century Drama 479 Vayos Liapis 36 Oresteia on Stage: Koun, Stein, Hall and Mnouchkine 491 Hallie Rebecca Marshall 37 Transforming Aeschylus on the Modern Stage 505 Helene P. Foley 38 Applied Aeschylus 518 Peter Meineck 39 Teaching the Oresteia as a Work for the Theatre 533 Robin Mitchell-Boyask Epilogue 544 Jacques A. Bromberg Index 558

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