Plague and the Athenian imagination : drama, history, and the cult of Asclepius / Robin Mitchell-Boyask.
The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this 2007 book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 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 afterthoughtsWorks Cited; Index