Part I. The Iliad and Early Greek Literature: 1. Agamemnon's skeptron in the Iliad; 2. Men's and women's : female voices in the Iliad; 3. Holy thebe; 4. Alcman 58 and Simonides 37; 5. Looking for Omphale; 6. Friendship and the Greeks; Part II.

Actors: 7. Actors and voices: reading between the lines in Aeschines and Demosthenes'; 8. Actor as icon; Part III. Manuscripts and Transmission: 9. From Britain to Byzantium: the study of Greek manuscripts; Before palaeography: notes on early descriptions and datings of Greek manuscripts; 10. Menander - loss and survival; 11. Fata libellorum: Hyperides and the transmission of Attic oratory; Part IV. Scholia: 12.

Notes on notes: The ancient scholia on Sophocles; 13. The Chorus in Greek tragedy according to the ancient commentaries (translated by Laura Slatkin); 14. and its cognates in the Sophoclean scholia; 15. Space in the tragic scholia; 16. Sophocles and the Byzantine student; 17. Reading Sophocles with Manuel Moschopoulos; Part V. Reception and History of Scholarship: 18. Agamemnon for the ancients dramatic identities: Tragedy in late antiquity (with Richard Miles); 19.

George Eliot and Greek tragedy; 20. Richard Jebb: general introduction; 21. 'The speaking page': reading Sophocles with Richard Jebb; 22. The early years of the Cambridge Greek play: 1882-1912; 23. Gibert Murray's reading of Euripides; 24. Sophocles: the first thousand years; 25. The survival of Greek; 26. A taste for the classics; Works cited; Index locorum; General index.