The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. List of Illustrations x Note on Contributors xi Preface and Acknowledgments xvi Abbreviations and Editions xvii Part I Contexts 1(118) Fifth-Century Athenian History and Tragedy 3(20) Paula Debnar Tragedy and Religion: The Problem of Origins 23(15) Scott Scullion Dithyramb, Comedy, and Satyr-Play 38(17) Bernd Seidensticker Tragedy's Teaching 55(16) Neil Croally Tragedy and the Early Greek Philosophical Tradition 71(12) William Allan Tragedy, Rhetoric, and Performance Culture 83(20) Christopher Pelling Pictures of Tragedy? 103(16) Jocelyn Penny Small Part II Elements 119(94) Myth 121(15) Michael J. Anderson Beginnings and Endings 136(13) Deborah H. Roberts Lyric 149(18) Luigi Battezzato Episodes 167(16) Michael R. Halleran Music 183(11) Peter Wilson Theatrical Production 194(19) John Davidson Part III Approaches 213(164) Aeschylean Tragedy 215(18) Suzanne Said Sophoclean Tragedy 233(18) Ruth Scodel Euripidean Tragedy 251(20) Justina Gregory Lost Tragedies: A Survey 271(22) Martin Cropp Tragedy and Anthropology 293(12) Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood Values 305(16) Douglas Cairns The Gods 321(12) Donald Mastronarde Authority Figures 333(19) Mark Griffith Women's Voices 352(14) Judith Mossman Marginal Figures 366(11) Mary Ebbott Part IV Reception 377(128) Text and Transmission 379(15) David Kovacs Learning from Suffering: Ancient Responses to Tragedy 394(19) Stephen Halliwell Polis and Empire: Greek Tragedy in Rome 413(15) Vassiliki Panoussi Italian Reception of Greek Tragedy 428(16) Salvatore Di Maria Nietzsche on Greek Tragedy and the Tragic 444(15) Albert Henrichs Greek Tragedy and Western Perceptions of Actors and Acting 459(13) Ismene Lada-Richards The Theater of Innumerable Faces 472(18) Herman Altena Justice in Translation: Rendering Ancient Greek Tragedy 490(15) Paul Woodruff Bibliography 505(36) Index 541