Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ;
Band 112
Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-216) and indexes
Narrative, myth, and religion: Introduction -- Tragic storytelling: form and content -- Tragic worlds: narrating the Athenian polis -- Euripides' Alcestis: narrative and interpretation -- Narrative: Introduction -- Death is death is death: narrating a world of perennial suffering -- Myth: Introduction -- Mythological intertextuality: Alcestis and Heracles -- Prophecy, theory, action: the making of a hero -- Religion: Introduction -- Death is death is life: Eleusinian Orphism and moral courage -- Death is death is life: Alcestis, Athens, and mystical salvation