Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy

Contents

• 1. Introduction: the chorus in the middle Renaud Gagné and Marianne Hopman;
• 2. Choral polyphony and the ritual functions of tragic songs Claude Calame;
• 3. Chorus, conflict, closure in Aeschylus' Persians Marianne Hopman;
• 4. Choral intertemporality in the Oresteia Jonas Grethlein;
• 5. Choreography: the lyric voice of Sophoclean tragedy Simon Goldhill;
• 6. Conflicting identities in the Euripidean chorus Laura Swift;
• 7. The choral plot of Euripides' Helen Sheila Murnaghan;
• 8. Transcultural chorality: Iphigenia in Tauris and Athenian imperial economics Barbara Kowalzig;
• 9. Maenadism as self-referential chorality in Euripides' Bacchae Anton Bierl;
• 10. The Delian maidens and their relevance to choral mimesis in Classical drama Gregory Nagy;
• 11. Choral persuasions in Plato's Laws Lucia Prauscello;
• 12. The comic chorus and the demagogue Jeffrey Henderson;
• 13. Dancing letters: the Alphabetic Tragedy of Kallias Renaud Gagné;
• 14. Choral dialectics: Hölderlin and Hegel Joshua Billings;
• 15. Enter and exit the chorus: dance in Britain, 1880–1914 Fiona Macintosh;
• 16. 'The thorniest problem and the greatest opportunity': directors on directing the Greek chorus Peter Meineck.