Preface; List of illustrations; Bibliography of Pat Easterling; Introduction; Part I. Characters and Roles in Greek Tragedy: 1. Presentation of character in Aeschylus; 2. Character in sophocles; 3. Constructing character in Greek tragedy; 4. Reading minds in Greek tragedy (with Felix Budelmann); 5. Kings in Greek tragedy; 6. Women in tragic space; 7.

Gods on stage in Greek tragedy; 8. Some tragic newsbringers; Part II. Present and Past in Greek Tragedy: 9. The tragic homer; 10. The image of the polis in Greek tragedy; 11. Anachronism in Greek tragedy; 12. Constructing the heroic; 13. Euripides in the theatre; 14.

Narrative on the Greek tragic stage; 15. Authority without a name: a note on traditional wisdom in Greek tragedy; 16. Ancient plays for modern minds; Part III. Religion and Ritual in Greek Tragedy: 16. Tragedy and ritual; 17. Weeping, witnessing, and the tragic audience; 18. Now and forever in Greek drama and ritual; 19. Greek tragedy and the ethics of revenge; Part IV.

Language and Narrative in Greek Tragedy: 20. Repetition in Sophocles; 21. Plain words in Sophocles; 22. Naming and not naming in Sophocles; Part V. Reperformance and New Plays: 23. The end of an era? Tragedy in the early fourth century; 24. Euripides outside Athens: a speculative note; Part VI. Individual Tragedies: 25.

The second Stasimon of Antigone; 26. Sophocles, Trachiniae; 27. The end of the Trachiniae; 28. Philoctetes and modern criticism; 29. Oedipus and Polynices; 30. Oedipus at Colonus: characters and reception (translated by Fiona Macintosh); 31. The language of the Polis in Oedipus at Colonus; 32. The death of Oedipus and what happened next; 33.

Sophoclean journeys; 34. Getting to grips with oracles: Oedipus at Colonus; 35. Sophocles and the wisdom of Silenus: a reading of Oedipus at Colonus 1211-1248; 36. Theatrical furies: thoughts on Eumenides; 37. The infanticide in Euripides' Medea.