Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 384
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-9732-8 • Hardback • November 1999 • $158.00 • (£123.00)
978-0-8476-9733-5 • Paperback • November 1999 • $84.00 • (£65.00)
Thomas M. Falkner is professor of classical studies and dean of the faculty at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. Nancy Felson is professor of classics at the University of Georgia in Athens. David Konstan is professor of classics and comparative literature at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Part 1 Ideology
Chapter 2 Theorizing Athenian Imperialism and the Athenian State
Chapter 3 Women and Democracy in Ancient Greece
Chapter 4 Utopia and Myth in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazousae
Chapter 5 Body / Politics: Is There a History of Reading?
Part 6 Performance
Chapter 7 Homer and Plato at the Panathenaia: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
Chapter 8 Sicilian Folktales, Cognitive Psychology, and Oral Theory
Chapter 9 Madness Visible: Tragic Ideology and Poetic Authority in Sophocles' Ajax
Part 10 Dialogue
Chapter 11 Sophoklean Dialogues
Chapter 12 The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides
Chapter 13 Platonic Mimesis
Part 14 Contextualizing Classics
Chapter 15 Gender Studies
Chapter 16 Cultural Studies and Classics: Contrasts and Opportunities
Chapter 17 From Film Analysis to Oral-Formulaic Theory: The Case of the Yellow Oilskins
Chapter 18 Mass Market Romans
Chapter 19 Arethusa and the Politics of Criticism
This volume boasts a star cast of contributors and the direction of a high-powered team of editors.
— Phoenix