edited by Renaud Gagné and Marianne Govers Hopman
ix, 429 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-423) and index
The chorus in the middle / Renaud Gagné and Marianne Hopman -- Choral polyphony and the ritual functions of tragic songs / Claude Calame -- Chorus, conflict and closure in Aeschylus' Persians / Marianne Hopman -- Choral intertemporality in the Oresteia / Jonas Grethlein -- Choreography: the lyric voice of Sophoclean Tragedy / Simon Goldhill -- Conflicting identities in the Euripidean chorus / Laura A. Swift -- The choral plot of Euripides' Helen / Sheila Murnaghan -- Transcultural chorality: Iphigenia in Tauris and Athenian imperial economics in a polytheistic world / Barbara Kowalzig -- Maenadism as self-referential chorality in Euripides' Bacchae / Anton Bierl -- The Delian Maidens and their relevance to choral mimesis in classical drama / Gregory Nagy -- Choral persuasions in Plato's Laws / Lucia Prauscello -- The comic chorus and the demagogue / Jeffrey Henderson -- Dancing letters: the alphabetic Tragedy of Kallias / Renaud Gagné -- Choral dialectics: Hölderlin and Hegel / Joshua Billings -- Enter and exit the chorus: dance in Britain 1880 -- 1914 / Fiona Macintosh -- "The thorniest problem and the greatest opportunity": directors on directing the Greek chorus / Peter Meineck