There is much too commend in this volume... a significant contribution to an important and controversial topic.

• Introduction ; I. CONTEXT ; 1. The glue of democracy? Tragedy, structure and finance ; 2. Plato, drama, and rhetoric ; 3. Nothing to do with Athens? Tragedians at the courts of tyrants ; Response ; II. DISCOURSE ; 4. Athenian tragedy as democratic discourse ; 5. Euripidean euboulia and the problem of 'tragic politics' ; 6. 'Possessing an unbridled tongue': frank speech and speaking back in Euripides' Orestes ; Response ; III. FAMILIES ; 7. Extended families, marriage, and inter-city relations in (later) Athenian tragedy: Dynasts II ; 8. Inheritance and the Athenian nature of Sophoclean tragedy ; Response ; IV. CHORUSES ; 9. Choroi achoroi: the Athenian politics of tragic choral identity ; 10. Pity and panhellenic politics: choral emotion in Euripides' Hecuba and Trojan Women ; Response ; V. SUPPLIANTS ; 11. Supplication and empire in Athenian tragedy ; 12. Athens in Euripides' Suppliants: ritual, politics, and theatre ; Response ; VI. ATHENS AND GREECE ; 13. The panhellenism of Athenian tragedy ; 14. Hellenicity in later Euripidean tragedy ; Response

There is much too commend in this volume... a significant contribution to an important and controversial topic.

• Introduction ; I. CONTEXT ; 1. The glue of democracy? Tragedy, structure and finance ; 2. Plato, drama, and rhetoric ; 3. Nothing to do with Athens? Tragedians at the courts of tyrants ; Response ; II. DISCOURSE ; 4. Athenian tragedy as democratic discourse ; 5. Euripidean euboulia and the problem of 'tragic politics' ; 6. 'Possessing an unbridled tongue': frank speech and speaking back in Euripides' Orestes ; Response ; III. FAMILIES ; 7. Extended families, marriage, and inter-city relations in (later) Athenian tragedy: Dynasts II ; 8. Inheritance and the Athenian nature of Sophoclean tragedy ; Response ; IV. CHORUSES ; 9. Choroi achoroi: the Athenian politics of tragic choral identity ; 10. Pity and panhellenic politics: choral emotion in Euripides' Hecuba and Trojan Women ; Response ; V. SUPPLIANTS ; 11. Supplication and empire in Athenian tragedy ; 12. Athens in Euripides' Suppliants: ritual, politics, and theatre ; Response ; VI. ATHENS AND GREECE ; 13. The panhellenism of Athenian tragedy ; 14. Hellenicity in later Euripidean tragedy ; Response