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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Jacques A. Bromberg is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published essays on Greek literature, classical receptions in Latin America, global studies and historical globalization, and the history and philosophy of sport.
Peter Burian is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Duke University. He has published essays on and translations of ancient Greek texts and the reception of classical culture in the modern world.
Summary
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.
