The Tangled Ways of Zeus

Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham.

• Introduction ; 1. The titles of Greek dramas ; 2. Violence in Greek drama ; 3. Adolescence, ephebeia, and Athenian drama ; 4. Sherlockismus and the study of fragmentary tragedies ; 5. The seniority of Polyneikes in Aeschylus' Seven ; 6. The beginning and the end of Aeschylus' Danaid trilogy ; 7. The theatre audience, the Demos, and the Suppliants of Aeschylus ; 8. Sleeping safe in our beds: stasis, assassination, and the Oresteia ; 9. The tangled ways of Zeus ; 10. The omen of Aulis or the omen of Argos? ; 11. Pathos and mathos before Zeus ; 12. Oresteia Act II: two misconceptions ; 13. Aeschylus' epitaph ; 14. Dearest Haimon ; 15. 'They all knew how it was going to end': tragedy, myth, and the spectator ; 16. Alternative scenarios in Sophocles' Electra ; 17. Sophocles' Palamedes and Nauplius plays: no trilogy here ; 18. 'The rugged Pyrrhus': the son of Achilles in tragedy ; 19. What ought the Thebans to have done?