Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius

ISBN: 9780521296373 出版年：2007 页码：225 Robin Mitchell-Boyask Cambridge University Press

Prologue 1. Introduction 2. Death, myth and drama before the Plague 3. Materials I: the language of disease in tragedy 4. Plague, cult and drama: Euripides' Hippolytus 5. Oedipus and the Plague 6. Trachiniae and the Plague 7. Materials II: the cult of Asclepius and the Theater of Dionysus 8. Disease and stasis in Euripidean drama: tragic pharmacology on the south slope of the Acropolis 9. The Athenian Asklepieion and the end of Philoctetes 10. Conclusions and afterthoughts.