Editors' Acknowledgements Contributors A Note on the Text Preface, Mary C. English and Dustin W. Dixon 1. Female Genitalia Onstage in Aristophanes, Amy Richlin 2. 'Let Loose the Melodies of Holy Hymns': Voice, Agency and Gender in Aristophanes' Birds, Daniel Libatique 3. Performing Ritual Sacrifice in Aristophanes' Peace and Birds, Mary C. English 4. Political Ambition and Poetry in Aristophanes' Birds and Plato's Aristophanes, I-Kai Jeng 5.
Sophocles and Happy Endings, Anne Mahoney 6. Heroism in the Middle in Sophocles' Philoctetes, Emily Austin 7. διδαγμÏÏν διÏÏον: Storytelling and the Origin of Religion in the Sisyphus Fragment (43 Fr. 19 TrGF ), Andrew Ford 8. The Whetstone of Love: Helen's Blemished Beauty, Dustin W. Dixon 9. Virginity and the Postmortem State of the Body: Reading Mary and Hippolytus in Dialogue, Chris Synodinos 10. Literal Truth, Mythic Truth and Narrative in Longus's Daphnis and Chloe, William Owens 11.
The Body's Borders: Violation and the Visual in the Carmina Priapea, Tyler T. Travillian 12. What Are the Goals of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura ?, James J. O'Hara 13. Not So Funny After All: On Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Text of Petronius, John P. Bodel Index.