I The Greek Theatre

Aristotle, Poetics

A. W. Pickard-Cambridge, Dithyramb, Tragedy, and Comedy, Oxford, 1927.

_______________ The Dramatic Festivals of Athens, Oxford, 1968

Gerald Else, The Origin and Early Form of Greek Tragedy, Cambridge, 1965

Francisco Adrados, Festival, Comedy, and Tragedy, Leiden, 1975.

Margarete Bieber, The History of the Greek and Roman Theatre, Princeton, 1961.

A. L. H. Robkin, "That Magnificent Flying Machine: On the Nature of the Mechane of the Theatre of Dionysos at Athens," Archaeological News 8 (1979):1-6.

Oliver Taplin, Greek Tragedy in Action, Berkeley, 1978.

W Donlan (ed), The Classical World Bibliography of Greek Drama and Poetry, New York, 1978

J. Michael Walton, Greek Theatre Practice

H. C. Baldry, The Greek Tragic Theatre, London, 1971

Peter Arnott, An Introduction to the Greek Theatre

_______________ Greek Scenic Conventions in the 5th Century B.C., Oxford, 1962

T. B. L. Webster, The Greek Chorus

_______________ Greek Theatre Production, London (Methuen) 1970

A. D. Trendall and T. B. L. Webster, Illustrations of Greek Drama, London: Phaidon 1971

Erika Simon, The Ancient Theatre, London, 1982

Peter Walcot, Greek Drama in its Theatrical and Social Context, Cardiff, 1976

Lillian B. Lawler, The Dance of the Ancient Greek Theatre, Iowa City, 1964

Iris Brooke, Costume in Greek Classic Drama, London, 1962

David Wiles, Tragedy in Athens, Cambridge, 1997 (1999).

II General Literary Studies

P. E. Easterling (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, Cambridge 1997.

John Jones, On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy, London, 1962

H. D. F. Kitto, Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study, New York, 1939

_______________ Form and Meaning in Drama, London, 1956

_______________ Poiesis: Structure and Thought, Berkeley, 1966

Bernard Knox, Word and Action, London, 1979

Richmond Lattimore, The Poetry of Greek Tragedy, Baltimore, 1958

_______________ Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy, London, 1964

Albin Lesky, Greek Tragedy, London, 1967

_______________ Greek Tragic Poetry (1972), tr. M. Dillon, Yale, 1983

Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, The Masks of Tragedy, Austin, 1963

Simon Goldhill, Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia, Cambridge, 1984.

_________, Reading Greek Tragedy, Cambridge, 1986.

Charles Segal, Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text, Cornell University Press, 1986.

Erich Segal (ed.), Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy, Oxford University Press, 1983.

Hans Oranje, Euripides' Bacchae: The play and its audience, E.J.Brill, Leiden, 1984.

Leo Aylen, The Greek Theatre, Fairleigh Dickinson, 1985.

W.B. Stanford, Greek Tragedy and the Emotions, Routledge

M. Alexiou, The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, Cambridge, 1974.

R. Buxton, Persuasion in Greek Tragedy, Cambridge, 1976.

Brooks Otis, Cosmos and Tragedy, Chapel Hill, 1981.

Andrew, Brown, A New Companion to Greek Tragedy, B.& N., 1983.

M. Cropp, S. Scully, E. Fantham, Greek Tragedy and its Legacy, 1986.

Arnott, Peter D., Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre, London and New York, 1989.

Bernand, Andre, La Carte du Tragique: La geographie dans la tragedie greque, Paris, 1985.

Bremer, Jan M., "Why messenger speeches?," Miscellanea Tragica in honorem J. C. Kamerbeek, Amsterdam, 1976: 29-48.

Buxton, R. G. A., Persuasion in Greek Tragedy, Cambridge, 1982.

Flint, William W., Jr., The Use of Myth to Create Suspense in Extant Greek Tragedy, New York (Haskell House), 1966.

Friis-Johansen, Holger, General Reflection in Tragic Rhesis, Copenhagen, 1959.

Garner, Richard, From Homer to Tragedy: The Art Of Allusion in Greek Poetry, Routledge, London and New York, 1990. PA 3136 G37 1990.

Gredley, Bernard (ed.), Essays on Greek Drama, BICS 34 (1987).

Guepin, J.-P., The Tragic Paradox: Myth and Ritual in Greek Tragedy, Amsterdam, 1968.

Heath, Malcolm, The Poetics of Greek Tragedy, Stanford University Press, 1987. PA 3131 H43 1987

Kott, Jan, The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy (translated by B. Taborski and E. J. Czerwinski), London, 1970.

Lefkowitz, Mary R., The Lives of the Greek Poets, Hopkins, Baltimore, 1981.

Luce, T. James, Ancient Writers, Greece and Rome, New York, 1982.

Rehm, Rush, Greek Tragic Theatre, London (Routledge), 1992.

Sutton, Dana Ferrin, The Greek Satyr Play, Meisenheim am Glan, 1980.

Sutton, Dana Ferrin, "The Relation between Tragedies and Fourth Place Plays in three Instances," Arethusa 4 (1971): 55-73.

Vickers, Brian, Towards Greek Tragedy, London, 1973.

Winkler, John J. and Froma I. Zeitlin, Nothing to Do with Dionysos?, Princeton, 1990.

Zimmermann, Bernhard, Greek Tragedy: An Introduction, (tr. Marier), Baltimore: 1991 (1986).

Aeschylus

Dawe, R. D., "Inconsistency of Plot and Character in Aeschylus" PCSP 9 (1963): 21-62.

Richard Kuhns, The House, the City, and the Judge

Anne Lebeck, The Oresteia, Cambridge, 1971

Marsh McCall (editor), Aeschylus: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs, 1972

Brooks Otis, Cosmos and Tragedy, Chapel Hill, 1983

A. J. Podlecki, The Political Background of Aeschylean Tragedy, Ann Arbor, 1966

Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, The Art of Aeschylus, Berkeley, 1982

Oliver Taplin, The Stagecraft of Aeschylus, Oxford 1977

W. Whallon, Problem and Spectacle: Studies in the Oresteia

Sophocles

J. Alister Cameron, The Identity of Oedipus the King, New York, 1966

G. Gellie, Sophocles: A Reading, Carlton, Australia, 1972

R. Goheen, The Imagery of Sophocles' Antigone, Princeton, 1951

Bernard Knox, Oedipus at Thebes, New Haven, 1957

_____________ The Heroic Temper, Berkeley, 1964

K. Reinhardt, Sophocles, Oxford, 1979

David Seale, Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles, Chicago, 1982

Charles Segal, Tragedy and Civilization, Cambridge, MA, 1981

Cedric Whitman, Sophocles: A Study in Heroic Humanism, Cambridge, MA, 1951

R. P. Winnington-Ingram, Sophocles: An Interpretation, Cambridge, 1980

Euripides

Allen, Don Cameron and Henry T. Rowell, The Poetic Tradition: Essays on Greek, Latin, and English Poetry, Baltimore, 1968 (includes T. B. L. Webster, "Euripides: Traditionalist and Innovator," 27-45.

William Arrowsmith, "A Greek Theatre of Ideas," Arion 2 (1963)

D. J. Conacher, Euripidean Drama: Myth, Theme, and Structure, Toronto, 1967

G. M. A. Grube, The Drama of Euripides, London, 1941

Jens, Walter, Bauformen der griechischen Tragodie, Munchen, 1971.

Fitzgerald, G. J., "The Euripidean Heracles: An Intellectual and a Coward?," Mnemosyne 44 (1991): 85-95.

Burgess, Dana L., Late Euripidean Narrative, Bryn Mawr, 1984 (Univ. Microfilms 8419984).

Calder, William III (ed.), The Nineteenth Century Rediscovery of Euripides, GRBS 27.4 (1986)

Goff, Barbara E. The Noose of Words: Readings of desire, violence and language in Euripides' Hippolytus, Cambridge, 1990

Goldhill, Simon, "Rhetoric and Relevance: Interpolation in Euripides Electra," GRBS 27 (1987): 157-171

Hamilton, Richard, "Prologue Prophecy and Plot in Four Plays of Euripides, AJP 99 (1978): 277-302.

Hourmouziades, Nicolaos C., Production and Imagination in Euripides: Form and Function of the Scenic Space, Athens, 1965.

de Jong, Irene J. F., "Three Off-Stage Characters in Euripides," Mnemosyne 43 (1990): 1-21.

Kovacs, David, The Heroic Muse: Studies in the Hippolytus and Hecuba of Euripides, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1987. PA 3973 H7K68 1987

Meagher, Robert Emmet, Mortal Vision: The Wisdom of Euripides, New York, 1989.

Mills, Suzanne P., Euripides' Medeia: A Study in Dramatic Mythopoeia, Stanford diss., 1976 (Univ. Microfilms 77-7133).

Rehm, Rush, The AGON and the Audience: A Study of Euripides' Medea, Heracles, and Ion, Stanford Diss., 1985 (Univ. Microfilms 8602530).

Ohlander, Stephen, Dramatic Suspense in Euripides' and Seneca's Medea, New York, 1990.

Powell, Anton, Euripides, Women, and Sexuality, London and New York, 1990.

Stinton, T. C. W., "'Si Credere dignum est': Some Expressions of Disbelief in Euripides and Others," PCPhS 22 (1976): 60-89.

T. B. L. Webster, The Tragedies of Euripides, London, 1967

Wolff, Christian, Aspects of the Later Plays of Euripides, HSCP 69 (1965): 353-6 (summary).

Zeitlin, Froma I., "The Closet of Masks: Role-Playing and Myth-Making in the Orestes of Euripides," Ramus 9 (1980): 55-77.

Religion, Mythopoieia

Alexiou, Margaret, The Ritual Lament in the Greek Tradition, Cambridge, 1974.

Baldry, H. C., "The Dramatization of the Theban Legend," G&R 3 (1956): 24-37.

Robert Eisner, "Euripides' Use of Myth" Arethusa 12 (1979) pp.153-74.

Andre-Jean Festugiere, Personal Religion among the Greeks, Berkeley, 1960.

W. K. C. Guthrie, The Greeks and their Gods.

Hugh Lloyd-Jones, The Justice of Zeus, Berkeley, 1971.

William Sale, Existentialism and Euripides, Melborne, 1977.

R. P. Winnington-Ingram, Euripides and Dionysus, Amsterdam, 1969.

Walter Burkert, Greek Religion [tr. John Raffan], Harvard University Press, 1985. [with bibliography]

___________, Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual, California, 1980.

Joseph Fontenrose, The Delphic Oracle, California

____________, Python, California

Robert Parker, Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion, Oxford, 1983.

Emily Vermeule, Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry, California, 1979

Jean-Pierre Vernant & Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece [tr. Janet Lloyd], Humanities Press, 1981

Robert Garland, The Greek Way of Death

Edmunds, Lowell, Approaches to Greek Myth, Baltimore, 1990.

March, Jennifer R., The Creative Poet: Studies on the Treatment of Myths in Greek Poetry, University of London Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin Supplement 49 (1987).

Roberts, Deborah H., Apollo and his Oracle in the Oresteia, Gottingen, 1984, Hypomnemata 78.

Silk, Michael S., "Heracles and Greek Tragedy," G&R 32 (1985): 1-22.

Intellectual Environment

Claus, D. B., Toward the Soul: An Inquiry into the Meaning of 'Psyche' before Plato, New Haven, 1981.

Davies, J. K., Democracy and Classical Greece, Humanities Press, Hassocks, Sussex, 1978. DF 214 D37 1978

John Finley, Four Stages of Greek Thought, Stanford, 1966.

__________ "Euripides and Thucydides" in Three Essays on Thucydides, Cambridge, MA, 1967.

Christopher Gill, Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy, Oxford, 1996.

Golden, Mark, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens, Baltimore, 1990

W. K. C. Guthrie, The History of Greek Philosophy

__________ In the Beginning, Cornell, 1957.

Hall, Edith, Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy, Oxford 1989.

G. B. Kerferd, The Sophistic Movement, Cambridge 1981.

Pietro Pucci, The Violence of Pity in Euripides' Medea, Cornell, 1980.

P. W. Rose, "Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Teachings of the Sophists" HSCP 80 (1976), pp. 49-105.

Friedrich Solmsen, Intellectual Experiments of the Greek Enlightenment, Princeton, 1975.

Mario Untersteiner, The Sophists (1948), tr. by K. Freeman (1954).

R. K. Sprague, The Older Sophists.

G. E. R. Lloyd, Polarity and Analogy, Cambridge, 1966.

W. K. C. Guthrie, In the Beginning, London, 1957.

Havelock, Eric A., "The Socratic Self as it is parodied in Aristophanes' Clouds," YCS 22 (1972): 1-18.

Nussbaum, Martha, The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1986. BJ 192 N87 1986

Webster, T. B. L, "Some Psychological Terms in Greek Tragedy," JHS 77 (1957): 149-154.

Society, Politics, History

Bauman, Richard A., Political Trials in Ancient Greece, London, 1990.

Beck, Frederick, Album of Greek Education: The Greeks at School and at Play, Sydney, 1975.

K. J. Dover, Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle, Oxford, 1974.

V. H. Erhenberg, Sophocles and Pericles, Oxford, 1954.

A. W. Gomme (etc.), A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, 1945-1970.

R. Meiggs, The Athenian Empire, Oxford, 1972.

G. Zuntz, The Political Plays of Euripides

Mary Lefkowitz and Maureen Fant, Women's Life in Greece and Rome, Baltimore, 1982.

S. Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves, New York, 1975.

J. Peter Euben, Greek Tragedy and Political Theory, California, 1987.

Marilyn Arthur,"Early Greece: The origins of Western attitudes towards women" Arethusa 6, pp 7-58, 1973.

Anne Bergren, "Language and the female in early Greek thought," Arethusa 16, 69-95, 1983.

des Bouvrie, Synnove, Women in Greek Tragedy: An Anthropological Approach, Symbolae Osloenses suppl. 27 (1990).

D. Richter, "The position of women in classical Athens," CJ 67 (1971) pp. 1-8.

Loraux, Nicole, Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman, Harvard, 1987.

Jenkins, Ian, "Is there Life after Marriage? A Study of the Abduction motif in Vase Paintings of the Athenian Wedding Ceremony," BICS 30 (1983): 137-145.

Murray, Oswyn and Simon Price, The Greek City from Homer to Alexander, Oxford, 1990.

Neuberg, Matt, "How Like a Woman: Antigone's 'Inconsistency'," CQ 40 (1990): 54-76.

Padel, Ruth, "Women: Model for Possession by Greek Daemons," 3-19 of Images of Women in Antiquity, ed by Averil Cameron and Amelie Kuhrt, Detroit, 1983.

Seaford, Richard, "The Tragic Wedding," JHS 107 (1987): 106-130.

Seaford, Richard, "The Imprisonment of Women in Greek Tragedy," JHS 110 (1990): 76-90.

Quincey, J. H., "Greek Expressions of Thanks," JHS 86 (1966): 133-158.

Stanton, G. R. Athenian Politics 800-500 B.C.: A Sourcebook, London, 1990.

N. T. Croally, Euripidean Polemic:The Trojan Women and the function of tragedy, Cambridge, 1994.

Yvon Garlan, Slavery in Ancient Greece, 1982 (tran. Janet Lloyd) Ithaca, 1988.

Peter Garnsey, Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine, Cambridge, 1996.

Christopher Gill, Personality in Greek Epic,Tragedy, and Philosophy, Oxford, 1996.

Orlando Patterson, Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, New York, 1991, "A Woman’s Song: The Female Force and the Ideology of Freedom in Greek Tragedy and Society," 107-132.

Joseph Vogt, Ancient Slavery and the Ideal of Man, Oxford, 1974 (tr. T. Wiedemann).

T. E. J. Wiedemann, Slavery, Greece and Rome: New Surveys in the Classics, 19, Oxford 1987.

Synodinou, Katerina, On the Concept of Slavery in Euripides, Ioannina, 1977.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War.

The Arts and Archaeology

A. M. Dale, The Lyric Metres of Greek Drama, Cambridge, 1968.

Hugh Parry, The Lyric Poems of Greek Tragedy, Toronto, 1979.

William C. Scott, Musical Design in Aeschylean Theatre, Dartmouth, 1984.

J. J. Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, Cambridge University Press, 1972.

John M. Camp, The Athenian Agora, Thames and Hudson, 1986.

A. J. N. W. Prag, The Oresteia: Iconographic and Narrative Tradition, Bolchazy-Carducci, 1985.

Jeffrey M. Hurwit, The Art and Culture of Early Greece, Cornell, 1985.

Osburne, Robin, Classical Landscape with Figures, Sheridan, 1987.

Irwin, Eleanor, Colour Terms in Greek Poetry, Toronto, 1977.

See also the work of Trendall and Webster listed above (under Greek Theatre).

Nachleben (afterlife of myths)

James J. Clauss and Sarah Iles Johnston, Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy and Art, Princeton, 1997.

George Steiner, Antigones: How the Antigone legend has endured in Western literature, art and thought, Oxford, 1986

Katherine Callen King, Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages, California, 1987

Lowell Edmunds, Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook, Garland. 1984.

Winkler, Martin M. Classics and Cinema, Bucknell Review 35.1, Lewisburg, 1991 (Marianne McDonald, "Cacoyannis's and Euripides' Iphigenia: The Dialectic of Power")

Other Bibliographies

    Medea

    Alcestis 

    Fuller Alcestis Bibliography

    Additions to the Bibliography