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Set Texts for Purchase (2 items)
Persians - Edith Hall, Aeschylus, 1996
Book | Suggested for student purchase
Ajax - A. F. Garvie, Sophocles, c1998
Book | Suggested for student purchase
Other Helpful Editions and Translations (8 items)
Persians: Seven against Thebes ; The suppliants ; Prometheus bound - Alan H.
Sommerstein, Aeschylus, 2008
Book | Optional | Loeb edition
Persae - A. F. Garvie, Aeschylus, 2009
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Good introduction and detailed linguistic help.
The Persae of Aeschylus - Henry Dan Broadhead, Aeschylus, 1960
Book | Optional
Ajax - Patrick Finglass, Sophocles, 2011
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Detailed linguistic help.
Ajax - William Bedell Stanford, Sophocles, 1963
Book | Recommended | Short Loan
Persians and other plays (translation with introduction and notes) - C. Collard, Aeschylus,
2009
Book
Sophocles - Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Sophocles, 1994
Book | Optional | Loeb edition
Sophocles: Four Tragedies: Hardback: Oliver Taplin (verse translation with intro. and
notes) - Oxford University Press
Book | Recommended
1. General Books on Greek Tragedy, Reference Works and Essay
Collections (13 items)
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The context of ancient drama - Eric Csapo, William J. Slater, c1995
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Good source-book and overviews on contexts of
performance, staging, audience etc.
The Cambridge companion to Greek tragedy - P. E. Easterling, c2006
Book | Recommended
History, tragedy, theory: dialogues on Athenian drama - Barbara E. Goff, 1995
Book | Recommended | Multiple Copies. See especially the chapters of Rosenbloom (for
Persians) and Rose (for Ajax)
Reading Greek Tragedy - Simon Goldhill, 1986
Book | Recommended | A classic but often criticized. Good chapter on Ajax.
A companion to Greek tragedy - Justina Gregory, 2005
Book | Recommended | Lots of relevant chapters and good for orientation.
Greek tragedy: suffering under the sun - Edith Hall, 2010
Book | Recommended | Excellent and fresh. Also good for orientation.
The poetics of Greek tragedy - Malcolm Heath, 1987
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Contrast his approach with Hall and Goldhill. Good
chapter on Ajax.
The Cambridge companion to Greek and Roman theatre - Marianne McDonald, J. Michael
Walton, c2009
Book | Recommended
Greek tragic theatre - Rush Rehm, 1992
Book | Recommended
Tragedy and the tragic: Greek theatre and beyond - M. S. Silk, 1996
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Interesting essays (e.g.) by Gould, Goldhill, Hall and
Seaford.
Greek tragedy in action - Oliver Taplin, 2003
Book | Recommended | Classic work on importance of staging and dramaturgy. Good
material on Ajax.
Tragedy in Athens: Performance Space and Theatrical Meaning - David Wiles, 1997
Book | Optional
Nothing to do with Dionysos?: Athenian drama in its social context - John J. Winkler, Froma
I. Zeitlin, c1990
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Classic and important sociological collection of
essays.
2. Festivals, Theatre, Staging and Performance (20 items)
'Performative aspects of the choral voice in Greek tragedy: civic identity in performance' in
S. Goldhill and R. Osborne (eds.), Performance culture and Athenian democracy, pp.
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125-153. - Claude Calame, 1999
Chapter | Recommended
'Procession and Celebration at the Dionysia', in R. Scodel (ed.),Theater and society in the
classical world, pp. 25-38. - Ruth Scodel, c1993
Chapter | Recommended
Actors and icons of the ancient theater - Eric Csapo, 2010
Book | Recommended | Reflects latest research on deme theatres, the spread of
tragedy and the ‘new music’
The context of ancient drama - Eric Csapo, William J. Slater, c1995
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Useful collection of sources for Attic theatre and
tragedy plus interpretative essays.
'The audience of Greek Tragedy' in P. Easterling (ed) The Cambridge companion to Greek
tragedy, pp.54-68 - Simon Goldhill, c2006
Book
The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology - Simon Goldhill, 1987
Article | Recommended | Important and relevant to set texts.
Civic Ideology and the Problem of Difference: The Politics of Aeschylean Tragedy, Once
again - Simon Goldhill, 2000
Article | Recommended | update on 1987 article in response to criticisms
Carcinus and the Temple: a Lesson in the Staging of Tragedy - Green, J R, Fall 1990
Article | Optional | indirectly relevant to staging issues in Persians and Ajax
On Seeing and Depicting the Theatre in Classical Athens - Green, J R, Spring 1991
Article | Optional | Interesting remarks on vase evidence (section II is on tragedy)
Images of the Greek theatre - J. R. Green, E. W. Handley, 1995
Book | Optional
The theatrical cast of Athens: interactions between Ancient Greek drama and society Edith Hall, 2006
Book | Optional | Interesting introduction and chapters on acting, masks and actor's
song.
'Emotion and Meaning in Tragic Performance', in M.S. Silk (ed.), Tragedy and the Tragic
(Oxford 1996), pp. 397-413 - I. Lada, 1996
Book | Recommended | Short Loan
Judging Athenian Dramatic Competitions - C. W. Marshall and Stephanie van Willigenburg,
2004
Article | Recommended | Persuasive account of how plays were judged.
Actors on High: The Skene Roof, the Crane, and the Gods in Attic Drama - Donald J.
Mastronarde, 1990
Article | Optional | Thorough study of 'on-high' appearances ('ex machina'), possible use
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of crane etc.
The Competence of Theatre Audiences in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Athens - Martin
Revermann, 2006
Article | Recommended | Very important article on audience competence derived from
choral participation.
The stagecraft of Aeschylus: the dramatic use of exits and entrances in Greek tragedy Oliver Taplin, 1977
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Important chapter on Persians
Greek tragedy in action - Oliver Taplin, 2003
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Has good material on staging and sigificant action
in Ajax.
'The pictorial record', in P.E. Easterling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
(Cambridge 1997), pp. 69-90 - O. Taplin, c2006
Book | Optional
The Athenian institution of the 'khoregia': the chorus, the city, and the stage - Peter Wilson
, 2000
Book | Optional | Fascinating study of the elite choregoi who funded productions as a
form of taxation and gained social-political recognition in return.
The Greek theatre and festivals: documentary studies - Peter Wilson, 2007
Book | Recommended | Latest research based on recent archaeology and inscriptional
finds. See (esp.) chapter 4 by Csapo and Goette on seating, theoric fund and rectilinear
shape of Theatre of Dionysus.
3. Form, Genre and Convention (12 items)
Actors & audience: a study of asides and related conventions in Greek drama - David Bain,
1977
Book | Optional
'Myth into muthos: the shaping of tragic plot', pp. 178-208 in P.E. Easterling (ed.) The
Cambridge companion to Greek tragedy - P. Burian, c2006
Chapter | Recommended | excellent
Anachronism in Greek Tragedy - P. E. Easterling, 1985
Article | Recommended | Very good
'Constructing character in Greek Tragedy', pp. 83-99 in C. B. R. Pelling (ed.)
Characterization and individuality in Greek literature - P. E. Easterling, 1990
Chapter | Optional | excellent
'Form and performance', pp. 151-177 in P.E. Easterling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion
to Greek Tragedy - P. E. Easterling, c2006
Chapter | Recommended | excellent
'Collectivity and Otherness - The Authority of the Tragic Chorus: Response to Gould', pp.
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244-56 in M.S. Silk (ed.), Tragedy and the tragic: Greek theatre and beyond - S. Goldhill,
1996
Chapter | Recommended | Read with Gould 1996 below
'Dramatic character and "human intelligibility" in Greek tragedy', Proceedings of the
Cambridge Philological Society 24 (1978) 43-67 - J. Gould, 1882-2004
Article | Recommended
'Tragedy and Collective Experience', pp. 217-43 in M.S. Silk (ed.), Tragedy and the tragic:
Greek theatre and beyond - J. Gould, 1996
Chapter | Recommended | Good on Chorus.
Poetry into drama: early tragedy and the Greek poetic tradition - John Herington, c1985
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. See especially chapter 6.
The poetics of Greek tragedy - Malcolm Heath, 1987
Book | Recommended | Short Loan
Fifth-Century Tragedy and Comedy: A Synkrisis - Oliver Taplin, 1986
Article | Recommended | Srimulating
'Comedy and the Tragic', pp. 188-202 in M.S. Silk (ed.), Tragedy and the tragic: Greek
theatre and beyond - O. Taplin, 1996
Chapter | Recommended | Stimulating update to Taplin 1986 above.
4. Tragic Language and Concepts of 'Mind', 'Self' and 'Other'. (9 items)
Persuasion in Greek tragedy: a study of peitho - R. G. A. Buxton, 1982
Book | Optional
'Constructing the Heroic', pp. 21-37 in C.B.R. Pelling (ed.), Greek Tragedy and the Historian
Greek tragedy and the historian - P. Easterling, 1997
Chapter | Recommended | Short Loan. Interesting concept of 'heroic vagueness'
'The language of tragedy: rhetoric and communication', in P.E. Easterling The Cambridge
Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge 1997), 127-150 - S Goldhill, c2006
Book
Reading Greek Tragedy - Simon Goldhill, 1986
Book
Inventing the barbarian: Greek self-definition through tragedy - Edith Hall, 1989
Book | Essential | Short Loan
In and out of the mind: Greek images of the tragic self - Ruth Padel, 1992
Book
Whom gods destroy: elements of Greek and tragic madness - Ruth Padel, c1995
Book
Tragedy and the tragic: Greek theatre and beyond - M. S. Silk, 1996
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| Short Loan. See essays by Rosenmeyer and Silk
' Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama', in F. Zeitlin
Playing the other: gender and society in classical Greek literature, pp. 341-74 - Froma I.
Zeitlin, 1996
Chapter | Recommended
5. Tragedy, Ritual, Religion, Gods (13 items)
Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual - Walter Burkert, 1966
Article
Dionysian imagery in fifth century Athens - Thomas H. Carpenter, 1997
Book
'Procession and Celebration at the Dionysia', in R. Scodel (ed.), Theater and Society in the
Classical World (Ann Arbor 1993), pp. 25-38 - S. Cole, c1993
Book
'Tragedy and Ritual', in R. Scodel (ed.), Theater and Society in the Classical World (Ann
Arbor 1993), pp. 7-23 - P. E. Easterling, c1993
Book
'A show for Dionysus', in P.E. Easterling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
(Cambridge 1997), pp. 36-53 - P. E. Easterling, c2006
Book | Recommended
The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology - Simon Goldhill, 1987
Article | Recommended
Honor thy gods: popular religion in Greek tragedy - Jon D. Mikalson, c1991
Book
'The Ecstasy and the Tragedy: Varieties of Religious Experience in Art, Drama and Society',
in C.B.R. Pelling (ed.), Greek Tragedy and the Historian (Oxford 1997), pp. 187-211 - R.
Osborne, 1997
Chapter | Short Loan
''Gods Cruel and Kind: Tragic and Civic Theology', in C.B.R. Pelling (ed.), Greek Tragedy
and the Historian (Oxford 1997), pp. 143-160. - R. Parker, 1997
Chapter | Recommended | Short Loan
Reciprocity and ritual: Homer and tragedy in the developing city-state - Richard Seaford,
1994
Book | Recommended | Multiple copy. A complete theory of tragedy based on its
relation to hero cult and Dionysiac religion.
'Something to Do with Dionysus - Tragedy and the Dionysiac: Response to Friedrich', in
M.S. Silk (ed.), Tragedy and the Tragic (Oxford 1996), pp. 284-294. - R. Seaford, 1996
Book | Recommended | Short Loan
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'Something to do with Athens: Tragedy and Ritual', in R. Osborne and S. Hornblower (eds.),
Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts presented to David Lewis (Oxford
1994), pp. 269-289. - C. Sourvinou-Inwood, American Council of Learned Societies,
International Conference on "The History and Archaeology of Athenian Democracy", 1994
Book | Recommended
'Tragedy and Religion: Constructs and Readings', in C.B.R. Pelling (ed.), Greek Tragedy and
the Historian (Oxford 1997), pp. 161-186 - C. Sourvinou-Inwood, 1997
Chapter | Recommended | Short Loan
6. Tragedy, the polis and the question of 'politics' (20 items)
The Cambridge companion to Greek tragedy - P. E. Easterling, c2006
Book | Recommended | See essays by Cartledge, Goldhill on 'audience' and Hall on
'sociology'
The context of ancient drama - Eric Csapo, William J. Slater, c1995
Book
The politics of Greek tragedy - D. M. Carter, 2007
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Good introduction to the issues.
Why Athens?: a reappraisal of tragic politics - D. M. Carter, 2011
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. I recommend the essays of Wilson, Carter, Griffith,
Rhodes, Burian, Heath, Seaford and Rosenbloom.
The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology - Simon Goldhill, 1987
Article | Essential
Representing democracy: women at the Great Dionysia - S. Goldhill
Chapter | Essential
Civic Ideology and the Problem of Difference: The Politics of Aeschylean Tragedy, Once
again - Simon Goldhill, 2000
Article | contains acrique of Griffin below
The Social Function of Attic Tragedy - Jasper Griffin, 1998
Article | Recommended | Important attack on sociological and political approaches
Lawcourt Dramas: The Power of Performance in Greek Forensic Oratory - E. Hall, 1995
Article | good for thin king about rhetoric in tragedy
'Between Public and Private: Tragedy and Athenian Experience of Rhetoric', in C. Pelling
(ed.), Greek Tragedy and the Historian (Oxford 1997), pp. 121-141 - F. S. Halliwell, 1997
Chapter
‘The “social function” of tragedy: clarifications and questions’, in D.L. Cairns and V. Liapis
(ed.), Dionysalexandros: essays on Aeschylus and his fellow tragedians in honour of A.F.
Garvie (Swansea 2006), 253-81. - M. Heath, Vaios Liapēs, Jean Bollack, A. F. Garvie
, 2006
Chapter | Recommended | Important critique
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Should There Have Been a Polis in Aristotle's "Poetics"? - Malcolm Heath, 2009
Article
‘The Socio-Political Dimension of Ancient Tragedy’, pp. 72-91 in M. McDonald and J. M.
Walton eds., The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre (Cambridge 2007). Marianne McDonald, J. Michael Walton, c2009
Book | Basic overview of the issues
'Drama, political rhetoric, and the discourse of Athenian democracy', in J.J. Winkler and F.I.
Zeitlin (eds.), Nothing to do with Dionysus? (Princeton 1990), pp. 237-270. - J. Ober, B
Strauss, c1990
Chapter
A companion to Sophocles - Kirk Ormand, 2012
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Esp. essays by Rose, Osborne and Hall in Part IV.
The Competence of Theatre Audiences in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Athens - Martin
Revermann, 2006
Article | V. significant
Nothing to Do with Democracy: Athenian Drama and the Polis - P. J. Rhodes, 2003
Article | Essential | Important
The Athenian institution of the 'khoregia': the chorus, the city, and the stage - Peter Wilson
, 2000
Book
Nothing to do with Dionysos?: Athenian drama in its social context - John J. Winkler, Froma
I. Zeitlin, c1990
Book | See Winker's essay 'The ephebes' song'. Not proven but satill full of insight.
Nothing to do with Dionysos?: Athenian drama in its social context - John J. Winkler, Froma
I. Zeitlin, c1990
Book | See Zeitlin 'Thebes: theater of self and society in Athenian drama'
7. Gender, gender politics and sexuality (11 items)
'The conception of women in Athenian drama', in H.P. Foley (ed.) Reflections of Women in
Antiquity (New York, London and Paris 1981), pp. 127-168. - Helene P. Foley, Ebooks
Corporation, c1981
Chapter
Female acts in Greek tragedy - Helene P Foley, c2001
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Stimulating and Good
Representing democracy: women at the Great Dionysia - S. Goldhill
Chapter | Recommended | Survey of the 'were there women in the audience?' question.
Law, Custom and Myth: Aspects of the Social Position of Women in Classical Athens - John
Gould, 1980
Article
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Women and the Athenian Dramatic Festivals - Jeffrey Henderson, 1991
Article | Survey of the 'were there women in the audience?' question. Compare with
Goldhill above.
Women in Athenian law and life - Roger Just, 1989
Book | Multiple copies. See esp. chapters 9 and 10
The Character of Tragedy: Women and the Greek Imagination - Marilyn A Katz, 1994
Article
Tragic ways of killing a woman - Nicole Loraux, Anthony Forster, 1987
Book
Greek tragedy - Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, 2008
Book
Pornography and representation in Greece and Rome - Amy Richlin, 1992
Book | Essay by Rabinowitz
' Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama', in F. Zeitlin
Playing the other: gender and society in classical Greek literature, pp. 341-74 - Froma I.
Zeitlin, 1996
Chapter
8. Aristotle on Tragedy (13 items)
Poetics - Stephen Halliwell, W. Hamilton Fyfe, D. A Russell, Doreen Innes, Aristotle,
Longinus, Demetrius, 1995
Book | Recommended
Poetics [Electronic book] / Aristotle ; edited and translated by Stephen Halliwell. On the
sublime / Longinus ; translated by W.H. Fyfe ; revised by Donald Russell. On style /
Demetrius ; edited and translated by Doreen C. Innes ; based on W. Rhys Roberts.
Digital Loeb classical library. - Aristotle, author.
Book | Essential
The Poetics of Aristotle: translation and commentary - Stephen Halliwell, Aristotle, 1987
Book
Tragedy and the tragic: Greek theatre and beyond - M. S. Silk, 1996
Book | See essay by Hall: 'Is There a Polis in Aristotle's Poetics?',pp. 295-309.
Aristotle's 'Poetics' - Stephen Halliwell, 1998, c1986
Book | Recommended | Short Loan
‘Learning from Suffering: Ancient Responses to Greek Tragedy’, ch. 25 of J. Gregory (ed.) A
Companion to Greek Tragedy). - S. Halliwell, EBSCO Publishing (Firm), 2005
Book | Recommended
On Aristotle and Greek tragedy - John Jones, 1962
Book
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The poetics of Greek tragedy - Malcolm Heath, 1987
Book | Recommended | Short Loan
Should There Have Been a Polis in Aristotle's "Poetics"? - Malcolm Heath, 2009
Article
'Tragedy and self-sufficiency: Plato and Aristotle on fear and pity', Oxford Studies in
Ancient Philosophy 10 (1992) 107-159. - M. C, Nussbaum, 1992
Article | Recommended
Aristotle on Dramatic Probability - Neil O'Sullivan, 1995
Article
Classical literary criticism - D. A. Russell, Michael Winterbottom, 1989
Book |
'Catharsis, Audience and Closure in Greek Tragedy', in M.S. Silk (ed.), Tragedy and the
Tragic (Oxford 1996), pp. 149-172 - C. Segal, 1996
Chapter
9. Other Reception, Criticism and Theory of Tragedy (8 items)
This is a vast area and not central to the course. See Module Booklet p. 28 for a fuller list
of titles. 'Reception' of Greek Tragedy is now a subject in itself: see (e.g.) the many works
edited by, or by, Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh and Helene Foley.
'From repertoire to canon', in P.E. Easterling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek
Tragedy (Cambridge 1997), pp. 211-227 - P. E. Easterling, c2006
Book | Recommended
The Cambridge history of literary criticism: Vol. 1: Classical criticism - George A. Kennedy,
1989
Book | Recommended | See especially Ferrari's chapter on Plato
'Modern critical approaches to Greek tragedy', in P.E. Easterling (ed.), The Cambridge
Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge 1997), pp. 324-347 - S. Goldhill, c2006
Book | Recommended
Tragedy and the tragic: Greek theatre and beyond - M. S. Silk, 1996
Book | Recommended | See especially Halliwell on Plato, Mitchell-Boyask on Girard and
Easterling on catharsis
The birth of tragedy out of the spirit of music - Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Tanner, Shaun
Whiteside, 1993
Book
Nietzsche on tragedy - M. S. Silk, J. P. Stern, 1981
Book
The death of tragedy - George Steiner, 1961
Book
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Myth and tragedy in ancient Greece - Jean-Pierre Vernant, Janet Lloyd, Pierre Vidal-Naquet,
c1988
Book
10. Aeschylus in general (7 items)
More on Conditions of Production to the Death of Aeschylus - Hammond, N G L, 1988
Article | Useful and interesting but do use with care. More recent findings and
interpretation is discussed in items under 3. above (e.g. in Wilson 2007), Csapo 2010,
Csapo and Slater 1995.)
Aeschylus - S. Ireland, 1986
Book | Multiple copies
Aeschylus - Michael Lloyd, 2007
Book | See introduction and essays by Said and Griffith
The art of Aeschylus - Thomas Gustav Rosenmeyer, c1982
Book | Recommended | Short Loan
Aeschylean tragedy - Alan H. Sommerstein, 2010
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Previous ed.: Bari : Levante, 1996 .
The stagecraft of Aeschylus: the dramatic use of exits and entrances in Greek tragedy Oliver Taplin, 1977
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Important for staging in Persians – see relevant
chapter.
Studies in Aeschylus - R. P. Winnington-Ingram, 1983
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. See esp. the chapter on 'Zeus in Persae'
11. Persians in particular (20 items)
See also relevant chapters of works by Winnington-Ingram, Rosenmeyer, Taplin and
Sommerstein cited above.
‘Salamis symphony: the Persae of Aeschylus’, pp. 34-41 in E. Segal, Oxford Readings in
Greek Tragedy (Oxford 1983). - S. Adams, Feb.1983
Chapter | Short Loan
Aeschylean drama - Michael Gagarin, 1976
Book | Recommended | Short Loan
Persae - A. F. Garvie, Aeschylus, 2009
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Good commentary and introduction
Battle Narrative and Politics in Aeschylus' Persae - Simon Goldhill, 1988
Article | Good but see views on this in Harrison 2000 and 2002
‘The King and Eye. The rule of the father in Greek Tragedy’, Proceedings of the Cambridge
Philological Society 44 (1998) 20-84. - Cambridge Philological Society, M. Griffith, 1998
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Article
| Recommended | reprinted in Lloyd (ed.) 2007 above.
Inventing the barbarian: Greek self-definition through tragedy - Edith Hall, 1989
Book | Recommended | Important
The theatrical cast of Athens: interactions between Ancient Greek drama and society Edith Hall, Dawson Books, 2006
Book | Recommended | Chapter 7 is an update and reconisderation of her 1989
Inventing the Barbarian
‘Asia unmanned: images of victory in Classical Athens’ in J. Rich and G. Shipley (eds.) War
and Society in the Greek World, 107-33 (London, 1993). - E. Hall, 1993
Book
Persians - Edith Hall, Aeschylus, 1996
Book | Essential | Multiple copy for emergencies. This is a set text for purchase. Good
intro. and commentary
The emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians' and the history of the fifth century - Thomas
Harrison, 2000
Book | Short Loan. Good on play as ‘historical tragedy’ and its religious and political
context. See review by Goldhill in Classical Review,
Greeks and barbarians - Thomas Harrison, c2002
Book | Multiple copies. See introductyion and esp. essays by Goldhill, Briant and
Lissarague
Maternal Authority and Heroic Disgrace in Aeschylus's "Persae" - Laura McClure, 2006
Article
‘Aeschylus’ Persae and History’, and ‘Conclusion’ pp. 1-19 and pp. 213-35 in Pelling (ed.)
Greek Tragedy and the Historian (Oxford, 1997). - C. B. R. Pelling, 1997
Chapter
The political background of Aeschylean tragedy - Anthony J. Podlecki, 1999
Book | Use with caution and see Harrison 2000
Shouting "Fire" in a Crowded Theater: Phrynichos's "Capture of Miletos" and the Politics of
Fear in Early Attic Tragedy - Rosenbloom, David, Jan 1, 1993
Article
Aeschylus, Persians - David Rosenbloom, 2006
Book | Recommended | Short Loan
‘Tragedy and Reversal: the example of Persians’ pp. 71-92 in M. Lloyd (ed.) Aeschylus - S.
Said, 2007
Chapter | Recommended
Atossa's Second Entrance: Significant Inaction in Aeschylus' Persai - David Sider, 1983
Article
Xerxes' Rags: Some Problems in Aeschylus' Persians - William G. Thalmann, 1980
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Article
‘Exit Atossa: Images of Women in Greek Historiography of Persia’, pp. 20-33 in A. Cameron
and A. Kuhrt (eds.) Images of Women in Antiquity (London, 1983). - H.
Sancisi-Weerdenberg, c1983
Book | Short Loan
12. Sophocles in general (8 items)
Helping friends and harming enemies: a study in Sophocles and Greek ethics - Mary
Whitlock Blundell, 1989
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Good chapter on Ajax.
The language of Sophocles: communality, communication and involvement - Felix
Budelmann, 2000
Book
Character in Sophocles - P. E. Easterling, 1977
Article
Sophocles - R. G. A. Buxton, Classical Association (Great Britain), 1984
Book
Reading Greek Tragedy - Simon Goldhill, 1986
Book | Recommended | Use index for chapters on Ajax
The heroic temper: studies in Sophoclean tragedy - Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox, 1964
Book | Recommended | Short Loan, Use index for Ajax.
Tragedy and civilization: an interpretation of Sophocles - Charles Segal, c1999
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Excellent for imagery in Ajax.
Sophocles' tragic world: divinity, nature, society - Charles Segal, c1995
Book
13.Ajax in particular (28 items)
See also relevant chapters of works by Segal, Blundell, Goldhill, Winnington-Ingram cited
above under 12.
The Fall-out from Dissent: Hero and Audience in Sophocles' Ajax - Elton Barker, 2004
Article
Supplication and Hero Cult in Sophocles' "Ajax" - Burian, Peter, Summer 1972
Article | Recommended | Stimulating
‘Polyphonic Ajax’, in K. Ormand (ed.) A Companion to Sophocles, (London 2012), pp.
69-84. - P. Burian, 2012
Book
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The Imagery of Sophocles: A Study of Ajax's Suicide - David Cohen, 1978
Article | Recommended | good on imagery of 'deception speech'
Ajax, the Unexpected, and the Deception Speech - Gregory Crane, 1990
Article
‘Sophocles and Hero Cult’, in K. Ormand (ed.) A Companion to Sophocles, (London 2012),
pp. 331-48. - B. Currie, 2012
Book
'Tragedy and Ritual', in R. Scodel (ed.), Theater and Society in the Classical World (Ann
Arbor 1993), pp. 7-23: pp. 9-17 - P. Easterling, c1993
Book | On ritual aspects of Ajax's burial/hero cult.
The Tragic Homer - P. E. Easterling, 1984
Article | Recommended | Good on Ajax/Tecmessa scene and Iliad 6.
A Reading of Sophocles' "Ajax" - J. A. S. Evans, 1991
Article
Ajax - Patrick Finglass, Sophocles, 2011
Book | Recommended | weighty commentary. Detailed linguistic help.
Female acts in Greek tragedy - Helene P Foley, c2001
Book | Recommended | Short Loan
Ajax - A. F. Garvie, Sophocles, c1998
Book | Suggested for student purchase | our very usable commentary, but some
controversial views on evaluating Ajax.
Personality in Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy: the self in dialogue - Christopher Gill,
1996
Book | Complex but see his points on Ajax at pp. 204-216.
Sophocles' "Ajax": The Military "Hybris" - Helen Gasti, 1992
Article
The poetics of Greek tragedy - Malcolm Heath, 1987
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Final chpater good for various aspects of Ajax.
Sophocles: Ajax - Jon Hesk, 2002
Book | Short Loan. Note also 'further reading' section.
The Debate-Scenes in the Ajax - Philip Holt, 1981
Article
The heroes of Attica - Emily Kearns, University of London. Institute of Classical Studies,
1989
Book
Word and action: essays on the ancient theater - Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox, c1979
Book | Recommended | For Ajax, see pp. 125-160 (also in Harvard Studies in Classical
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Greek Tragedy | University of St Andrews
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Philology 65 (1961)) Useful and Important.
Tragic ways of killing a woman - Nicole Loraux, Anthony Forster, 1987
Book | Recommended | See her comments on Ajax's death by using index.
Ancient Ethics, the Heroic Code, and the Morality of Sophocles' Ajax - Stuart Lawrence,
2005
Article
Sophocles' Ajax: The Death and Burial of a Hero - J. R. March, 1993
Article
‘The dissembling-speech of Ajax’, Yale Classical Studies 25 (1977), pp. 47-66. - J Moore,
1977
Book | Good place to start with deception speech.
Genre and meaning in Sophocles' Ajax - Joe Park Poe, c1987
Book
‘Historicizing Sophocles’ Ajax’ pp. 59-90 in B. Goff (ed.) History, Tragedy, Theory (Texas,
1995). - P Rose, 1995
Book | Recommended | Multiple Copies
Reciprocity and ritual: Homer and tragedy in the developing city-state - Richard Seaford,
1994
Book | Recommended | Short Loan. Use index
Greek tragedy in action - Oliver Taplin, 2003
Book | Recommended | follow index of passages for staging issues
Sophocles' Ajax and the Heroic Values of the Iliad - G. Zanker, 1992
Article | Recommended
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