Ian C. Storey is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Trent University, Canada. The author of Eupolis: Poet of Old Comedy (2003), Euripides' Suppliant Women (2008), and The Fragments of Old Comedy (2011), he has published numerous papers on Euripides, Old Comedy, and the fiction of C. S. Lewis.

Arlene Allan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Otago University, New Zealand, where she teaches ancient Greek literature and mythology, as well as ancient Greek and Latin.

Preface x

List of Figures xii

List of Maps xiii

Abbreviations and Signs xiv

1 Aspects of Ancient Greek Drama 1

Drama 1

The Dramatic Festivals 14

Drama and Dionysos 24

The Theatrical Space 34

The Performance 46

Drama and the Polis 61

2 Greek Tragedy 72

On the Nature of Greek Tragedy 77

Aeschylus 93

Sophokles [...]ipides 131

The Other Tragedians 151

3 The Satyr-Play 156

4 Greek Comedy 169

Origins 169

Old Comedy 173

The Generations of Old Comedy 195

Aristophanes 208

Middle Comedy 217

Menander and New Comedy 221

5 Approaching Greek Drama 230

Textual Criticism and Commentary 230

New Criticism 231

Structuralism 232

Myth and "Version" 233

Ritual and Drama 235

Psychoanalytic Approaches 236

Gender Studies 237

Performance Criticism 238

6 Play Synopses 241

Aeschylus' Persians (Persae, Persai ) 243

Aeschylus' Seven (Seven against Thebes) 244

Aeschylus' Suppliants (Suppliant Women, Hiketides) 245

Aeschylus' Oresteia 246

Aeschylus' Agamemnon 247

Aeschylus' Libation-Bearers (Choephoroe) 248

Aeschylus' Eumenides (Furies) 249

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (Prometheus Vinctus, Prometheus Desmotes) 250

Sophokles' Ajax (Aias) 251

Sophokles' Antigone 252

Sophokles' Trachinian Women (Trachiniai, Women of Trachis) 253

Sophokles' Oedipus Tyrannos (King Oedipus, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus the King) 254

Sophokles' Elektra (Electra) 255

Sophokles' Philoktetes (Philoctetes) 256

Sophokles' Oedipus at Kolonos (Colonus) [...]ipides' Alkestis (Alcestis) [...]ipides' Medea [...]ipides' Children of Herakles (Heraclidae, Herakleidai ) [...]ipides' Hippolytos [...]ipides' Andromache [...]ipides' Hecuba (Hekabe) [...]ipides' Suppliant Women (Suppliants, Hiketides) [...]ipides' Elektra (Electra) [...]ipides' Herakles (Hercules Furens, The Madness of Herakles) [...]ipides' Trojan Women (Troades) [...]ipides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians (Iphigeneia in Tauris) [...]ipides' Ion [...]ipides' Helen [...]ipides' Phoenician Women (Phoinissai ) [...]ipides' Orestes [...]ipides' Iphigeneia at Aulis [...]ipides' Bacchae (Bacchants) [...]ipides' Cyclops 275

[Euripides'] Rhesos 276

Aristophanes' Acharnians 277

Aristophanes' Knights (Hippeis, Equites, Horsemen) 278

Aristophanes' Wasps (Sphekes, Vespae) 279

Aristophanes' Peace (Pax, Eirene) 280

Aristophanes' Clouds (Nubes, Nephelai) 281

Aristophanes' Birds (Ornithes, Aves) 282

Aristophanes' Lysistrate 283

Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria (Thesmophoriazousai ) 284

Aristophanes' Frogs (Ranae, Batrachoi ) 285

Aristophanes' Assembly-Women (Ekklesiazousai ) 286

Aristophanes' Wealth (Ploutos) 287

Menander's The Grouch (Old Cantankerous, Dyskolos) 288

Menander's Samian Woman (Samia) or Marriage-contract 289

A Note on Meter 290

Glossary of Names and Terms 293

Further Reading 296

Index 305