Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- Figure 1
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Death, myth and drama before the plague
- Chapter 3 Materials I: The language of disease in tragedy
- Chapter 4 Plague, cult and drama: Euripides' Hippolytus
- Chapter 5 Oedipus and the plague
- Chapter 6 The Trachiniae and the plague
- Chapter 7 Materials II: The cult of Asclepius and the Theater of Dionysus
- Chapter 8 Disease and stasis in Euripidean drama: Tragic pharmacology on the south slope of the Acropolis
- Chapter 9 The Athenian Asklepieion and the end of the Philoctetes
- Chapter 10 Conclusions and afterthoughts
- Works Cited
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- Figure 1
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Death, myth and drama before the plague
- Chapter 3 Materials I: The language of disease in tragedy
- Chapter 4 Plague, cult and drama: Euripides' Hippolytus
- Chapter 5 Oedipus and the plague
- Chapter 6 The Trachiniae and the plague
- Chapter 7 Materials II: The cult of Asclepius and the Theater of Dionysus
- Chapter 8 Disease and stasis in Euripidean drama: Tragic pharmacology on the south slope of the Acropolis
- Chapter 9 The Athenian Asklepieion and the end of the Philoctetes
- Chapter 10 Conclusions and afterthoughts
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Plague and the Athenian ImaginationDrama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007