5 Fragments of Attic iar．Corinth Museum T 114．Photo：American School of Classical Studies，Athens，Corinth Excavations 7 1
Part Ⅰ：Tragedy as an institution：the historical context 3
1‘Deep plays’：theatre as process in Greek civic life PAUL CARTLEDGE 3
ILLUSTRATIONS 7
1 Stēlē from Aixone，in honour of two cborēgoi．Photo：Epigraphical Museum，Athens；reproduced by courtesy of the Ministry of Culture and Science，Archaeological Receipts Fund，Athens 7
List ofillustrations 9
CONTENTS 9
2 Attic calyx-crater with aulos-player and chorus members or actors．Malibu，Collections ofthe J．Paul Getty Museum 82．AE．83 12
List ofcontributors 13
Preface 15
Plan ofthe city ofAthens 17
2 A show for Dionysus P．E．EASTERLING 36
3 Sculptured base from Delos．Photo：Wim Swaan 50
3 The audience of Athenian tragedy SIMON GOLDHILL 54
4 The pictorial record OLIVER TAPLIN 69
4 Attic crater with‘Basle Dancers'．Basle，Antikenmuseum und Skulptur-halle BS 415 70
6 Fifth-century representation of Aeschylus'Libation-Bearers．Copen-hagen，National Museum of Denmark，Department of Near Eastern and Classical Antiquities inv．no．597 72
7 The‘Pronomos Vase'，showing a team of tragic actors costumed for the satyr play．Naples，Museo Nazionale 3240 inv．no．81673．Photo：Fran？ois Lissarrague 73
9 Apulian vase with comic actors．New York，Fleischman Collection F56 75
8 Crater from Apulia，South Italy，probably depicting Dionysus．New York，Metropolitan Museum of Art L．1988．81．4，Collection of Jan Mitchell Sons 75
10 Fourth-century Attic vase with scene derived from Euripides'Iphigeneia among the Taurians．Ferrara，Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Spina T1145 inv．no．3032 77
11 Jar from Heraclea with Medea escaping in her dragon chariot．Policoro，Museo Nazionale Della Siritide 35302 78
12 Early fourth-century South Italian crater with a more elaborate repre-sentation of Medea's escape．Cleveland，Museum of Art，Leonard C．Hanna Jr Fund 91.1 79
13 Apulian volute-crater depicting a different version of the Medea story．Munich，Staatliche Antikensammungen und Glyptothek 3297 81
14 Vase with scene inspired by Euripides'Hippolytus．British Museum BM F279．Photo：copyright，British Museum 83
15 Apulian calyx-crater with scene inspired by Sophocles'Oedipus at Colonus．Melbourne，Geddes Collection A5：3．Photo：by courtesy of Graham Geddes 84
16 Apulian jug depicting blind man and king．Basle，Antikenmuseum und Skulpturhalle BS 473．Photo：Claire Niggli 86
17 Sicilian crater with scene inspired by Sophocles'Oedipus the King．Syracuse，MusArchReg 66557 87
5 The sociology of Athenian tragedy EDITH HALL 93
Part Ⅱ：The plays 93
6 The language of tragedy：rhetoric and communication SIMON GOLDHILL 127
7 Form and performance P．E．EASTERLING 151
8 Myth into muthos：the shaping of tragic plot PETER BURIAN 178
9 From repertoire to canon P．E．EASTERLING 211
Part Ⅲ：Reception 211
10 Tragedy adapted for stages and screens：the Renaissance to the present PETER BURIAN 228
18 Scene from the 1968 Santa Fe Opera production of Hans Werner Henze's opera The Bassarids．Photo：New York Public Library for the Performing Arts，Research Division；by courtesy of the Santa Fe Opera 270
19 Electra Catselli as Clytemnestra in Michael Cacoyannis'film Electra，1961．Photo：Museum of Modern Art，Film Stills Archive，New York 277
20 Melina Mercouri as Phaedra in Jules Dassin's film Phaedra，1961．Photo：Museum of Modern Art，Film Stills Archive，New York 278
21 Franco Citti as Oedipus in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Edipo Re，1967．Photo：Museum of Modern Art，Film Stills Archive，New York 280
11 Tragedy in performance：nineteenth-and twentieth-century productions FIONA MACINTOSH 284
22 Scene from Antigone at Covent Garden，1845．From The Illustrated London News，18 January 1845．Photo：by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library 287
23 Jean Mounet-Sully in Oedipus at the Comédie Fran？aise，1881 290
24 The chorus of Ajax，the first Cambridge Greek play，1882．From centenary programme，‘A hundred years of the Cambridge Greek play'，1983，reproduced by courtesy of the Cambridge Greek Play Committee 293
25 Helena in Troas at Hengler's Circus，London，1886．From The Graphic，5 June 1886．Photo：by permission of the Syndics of Cam-bridge University Library 295
26 Max Reinhardt's production of Oedipus Rex at Covent Garden，1912．Photo：from the Collections of the Theatre Museum，reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum 300
27 Lillah McCarthy as Iphigeneia at the Kingsway Theatre，London，1912．Photo：from the Collections of the Theatre Museum，reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum 303
28 Prometheus Bound at the Delphic Festival，1930．Photo：Athens，Benaki Museum，Photographic Archive 307
29 Laurence Olivier in the Old Vic production of Oedipus Rex，1945．Photo：John Vickers 310
30 Douglas Campbell in the Stratford（Ontario）Festival's production of Oedipus Rex，directed by Tyrone Guthrie，1955-Photo：McKague，Toronto 311
31 Tokusaburo Arashi playing the lead in Yukio Ninagawa's Medea，at the National Theatre，London，1987．Photo：John Haynes 314
32 Karolos Koun's production of the Oresteia，1982．Photo：Argyropoulos Photopress 315
33 The Furies from Peter Hall's production of the Oresteia at the National Theatre，London．Photo：Nobby Clark；from the Collections of the Theatre Museum，reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum 317
12 Modern critical approaches to Greek tragedy SIMON GOLDHILL 324
Glossary 348
Chronology 352
Texts，commentaries and translations 355
Works cited 359
Index 380