Nancy Worman is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University, New York, USA. She is the author of articles and books on style, performance, and the body in Greek literature and culture. Her books include Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) and Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism (2015).

This book is a sophisticated, informed, path-breaking reading of the semiotics of ancient Greek tragedy and aesthesis.

• Prologue. Skin to Skin in Greek TragedyChapter 1. Touching Oedipus: Proximities, Contact, and Affective IntimaciesChapter 2. The Sibling Hand: Manual Erotics and Violence Chapter 3. Familial Coverings: Skin, Cloaks, and Other OuterwearChapter 4. Strange Containers: Bodies and Other Tragic Vessels Chapter 5. Bodily Alterations: Undress, Prosthesis, and AssemblageChapter 6. Mysterious Objects: Corpses, Ghosts, StatuesFinal Scenes. Beyond the HumanNotesBibliographyIndex

Nancy Worman is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University, New York, USA. She is the author of articles and books on style, performance, and the body in Greek literature and culture. Her books include Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) and Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism (2015).

This book is a sophisticated, informed, path-breaking reading of the semiotics of ancient Greek tragedy and aesthesis.

• Prologue. Skin to Skin in Greek TragedyChapter 1. Touching Oedipus: Proximities, Contact, and Affective IntimaciesChapter 2. The Sibling Hand: Manual Erotics and Violence Chapter 3. Familial Coverings: Skin, Cloaks, and Other OuterwearChapter 4. Strange Containers: Bodies and Other Tragic Vessels Chapter 5. Bodily Alterations: Undress, Prosthesis, and AssemblageChapter 6. Mysterious Objects: Corpses, Ghosts, StatuesFinal Scenes. Beyond the HumanNotesBibliographyIndex

Nancy Worman is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University, New York, USA. She is the author of articles and books on style, performance, and the body in Greek literature and culture. Her books include Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) and Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism (2015).

This book is a sophisticated, informed, path-breaking reading of the semiotics of ancient Greek tragedy and aesthesis.

• Prologue. Skin to Skin in Greek TragedyChapter 1. Touching Oedipus: Proximities, Contact, and Affective IntimaciesChapter 2. The Sibling Hand: Manual Erotics and Violence Chapter 3. Familial Coverings: Skin, Cloaks, and Other OuterwearChapter 4. Strange Containers: Bodies and Other Tragic Vessels Chapter 5. Bodily Alterations: Undress, Prosthesis, and AssemblageChapter 6. Mysterious Objects: Corpses, Ghosts, StatuesFinal Scenes. Beyond the HumanNotesBibliographyIndex