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Tables of Contents for Contextualizing Classics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Abbreviations
vii
Preface
ix
Introduction: Retrospection on Classical Literary Criticism
1
18
Charles P. Segal
Part I: Ideology
Theorizing Athenian Imperialism and the Athenian State
19
22
Peter W. Rose
Women and Democracy in Ancient Greece
41
28
Marilyn A. Katz
Utopia and Myth in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazousae
69
20
Froma I. Zeitlin
Body/Politics: Is There a History of Reading?
89
34
Simon Goldhill
Part II: Performance
Homer and Plato at the Panathenaia: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
123
28
Gregory Nagy
Sicilian Folktales, Cognitive Psychology, and Oral Theory
151
22
Joseph Russo
Madness Visible: Tragic Ideology and Poetic Authority in Sophocles' Ajax
173
32
Thomas M. Falkner
Part III: Dialogue
Sophoklean Dialogues
205
16
Rachel Kitzinger
The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides
221
32
Carolyn Dewald
Platonic Mimesis
253
16
Mitchell Miller
Part IV: Contextualizing Classics
Gender Studies
269
16
Natalie Boymel Kampen
Cultural Studies and Classics: Contrasts and Opportunities
285
16
Seth L. Schein
From Film Analysis to Oral-Formulaic Theory: The Case of the Yellow Oilskins
301
16
Caroline Eades
Francoise Letoublon
Mass Market Romans
317
18
Martha A. Malamud
Arethusa and the Politics of Criticism
335
12
David Konstan
Afterword Reflections on Editorship
347
6
John J. Peradotto
Index
353
2
About the Contributors
355