Performance, iconography, reception : studies in honour of Oliver Taplin

Introduction PERFORMANCE: EXPLORATIONS 1. Generic Boundaries in Late Fifth-Century Athens 2. Audience and Emotion in the Reception of Greek Drama 3. Greek Middle-Brow Drama (Something to do with Aphrodite?) 4. Costing the Dionysia 5. Nothing to do with Demeter? Something to do with Sicily! Theatre and Society in the Early Fifth-Century West PERFORMANCE: EPIC 6. The Odyssey as Performance Poetry 7. Performance and Rivalry: Homer, Odysseus, and Hesiod 8. Performing the Will of Zeus: The Dios boule and the Scope of Early Greek Epic PERFORMANCE: TRAGEDY 9. Theatrical Furies: Thoughts on Eumenides 10. Aeschylus' Eumenides, Chronotopes, and the 'Aetiological Mode' 11. Star Choruses: Eleusis, Orphism, and New Musical Imagery and Dance 12. The Last Word: Ritual, Power, and Performance in Euripides' Hiketides 13. Intimate Relations: Children, Childbearing, and Parentage on the Euripidean Stage 14. Character and Characterization in Greek Tragedy PERFORMANCE: COMEDY 15. Scenes at the Door in Aristophanic Comedy 16. The Poetics of the Mask in Old Comedy PERFORMANCE: ICONOGRAPHY 17. Putting Performance into Focus 18. The Greek Gem: A Token of Recognition 19. Image and Representation in the Pottery of Magna Graecia PERFORMANCE: RECEPTION 20. Wagner's Greeks: The Politics of Hellenism 21. Resurrecting Ancient Greece in Nazi German: The Oresteia as Part of the Olympic Games in 1936 22. Can the Odyssey ever be Tragic? Historical Perspectives on the Theatrical Realization of Greek Epic 23. An Oedipus for our Times? Yeats's Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos