Why Athens?. A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - slightly rubbed and scuffed otherwise perfect condition - This collection of fourteen essays and six short responses reconsiders Greek tragedy as a reflection of Athenian political culture. The contributors try to avoid making the controversial assumption that the politics of tragedy were of simple relevance to the Athenian democracy. Instead, they look for other ways to explain the Athenianness of tragedy. These include: the polyphonic discourse of tragedy; the presentation of Athens in some plays (and the representation of foreigners too); tragedy as an Athenian form of choral performance; and the ways in which family matters are presented, for example marriage alliances or inheritance law. Why Athens? opens up important new ways of considering tragedy as a political art form. - Introduction, Mark Griffith & D. M. Carter -- The glue of democracy? Tragedy, structure and finance, Peter Wilson -- Plato, drama, and rhetoric, D. M. Carter -- Nothing to do with Athens? Tragedians at the courts of tyrants, Anne Duncan -- Response, Richard Seaford -- Discourse -- Athenian tragedy as democratic discourse, Peter Burian -- Euripidean euboulia and the problem of 'tragic politics', Jon Hesk -- 'Possessing an unbridled tongue': frank speech and speaking back in Euripides' Orestes, Elton T. E. Barker -- Response, Malcolm Heath -- Families, Mark Griffith -- Extended families, marriage, and inter-city relations in (later) Athenian tragedy: Dynasts II, Mark Griffith -- Inheritance and the Athenian nature of Sophoclean tragedy, Eleanor OKell -- Response, Peter Rhodes -- Choruses -- Choroi achoroi: the Athenian politics of tragic choral identity, Sheila Murnaghan -- Pity and panhellenic politics: choral emotion in Euripides' Hecuba and Trojan Women, Eirene -- Visvardi -- Response, Ian Ruffell -- Suppliants -- Supplication and empire in Athenian tragedy, Angeliki Tzanetou -- Athens in Euripides' Suppliants: ritual, politics, and theatre, Graziella Vinh -- Response, Barbara Goff -- Athens and Greece -- The panhellenism of Athenian tragedy, David Rosenbloom -- Hellenicity in later Euripidean tragedy, John Gibert -- Response, Anthony J. Podlecki. ISBN 9780199562329