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Tables of Contents for Literary Texts and the Greek Historian
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
A culture of rhetoric
1
17
Audiences and genres
1
4
Rhetorical narrative
5
4
Attitude and occasion
9
9
Rhetoric and history (415 BC)
18
26
Thucydides on the Herms and mysteries
18
8
Andocides
26
11
Reconstructing mentalities
37
7
How far would they go? Plutarch on Nicias and Alcibiades
44
17
Plutarch
44
3
Rewriting Nicias
47
2
Duplication with a difference: the ostracism of Hyperbolus
49
3
Alcibiades: dissent and decline
52
6
Illuminating reception
58
3
Rhetoric and history II: Platnea (431--27 BC)
61
21
The version of Apollodorus: [Demosthenes] 59
61
6
Thucydides on Plataea
67
5
right and wrong
72
2
Plataean citizenship
74
3
a matter of motives
77
5
Explaining the war
82
30
Explanatory narrative
82
12
To blame and to explain
94
9
Megarian decrees
103
9
Thucydides' speeches
112
11
`You cannot be serious': approaching Aristophanes
123
18
Comedy and society
123
1
Bewildering fantasy
124
6
Making comic sense
130
3
`We are not amused': audience prejudices and audience sympathies
133
8
Aristophanes' Acharnians (425 BC)
141
23
Dicaeopolis and Telephus
141
4
Cleon
145
6
Megara: the comic version
151
7
`Now, seriously, though....': a plea for peace?
158
6
Tragedy and ideology
164
25
Tragedy, comedy, and topicality: Euripides' Orestes
164
3
Aeschylus' Eumenides (458 BC)
167
10
What is ideology?
177
7
Orestes again: disillusionment or disorientation?
184
5
Lysistrata and others: constructing gender
189
57
Sex in context
189
7
Gendering tragically
196
13
Gendering comically
209
9
Gendering forensically
218
13
Gendering prescriptively
231
15
Conclusions: texts, audiences, truth
246
8
Notes
254
52
Bibliography
306
19
General index
325
6
Index of authors and texts
331