Table Of ContentTHE THEATRICAL CAST OF ATHENS
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THE
THEATRICAL
CAST OF
ATHENS
Interactions between Ancient Greek
Drama and Society
EDITH HALL
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Acknowledgements
Sincesomeoftheessaysinthisbookhavebeengerminatingfortwo
decades, the number of friends and colleagues to whom I am in-
debted for intellectual, practical, or other help has grown
uncontrollably. I have tried throughout to thank the individuals
whohavehelpedmeonspecificdetails,withtheprovisionofinfor-
mation and offprints, and by commenting on individual chapters.
But there are several people who have earned special gratitude, and
whose input has been all-pervasive. Robin Osborne and Froma
Zeitlin, who provided the reports for OUP, were extraordinarily
generousinthedispensationofwiseadviceanddetailedsuggestions.
Ihavebeenmoreorlesscontinuouslyindialoguefor yearswithPat
Easterling, Peter Brown, Helene Foley, Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis
Michelakis, Christopher Rowe, and Oliver Taplin. Emma Bridges,
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Rosie Wyles all helped by tracking down recalcitrant references and
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Contents
ListofIllustrations viii
Abbreviations x
1. Introduction 1
2. TheTheatricalRolesofAthens 16
3. ChildbearingWomen:BirthandFamily
CrisisinAncientDrama 60
4. VisibleWomen:PaintedMasksandTragic
Aesthetics 99
5. HornySatyrsandTragicTetralogies 142
6. FemalePersoniWcationsofPoetry inOldComedy 170
7. RecastingtheBarbarian 184
8. TheScythianArcherinAristophanes’
Thesmophoriazusae 225
9. DrowningAct:TheGreeks,Swimming,
andTimotheus’Persians 255
10. SingingRolesinTragedy 288
11. CastingtheroleofTrygaeusin
Aristophanes’Peace 321
12. LawcourtDramas:ActingandPerformance
inLegalOratory 353
Afterword 393
Bibliography 400
Index 455
List of Illustrations
Dust-Jacket: ‘LesCome´diens’byJeanLe´onGe´rome(1877).
Imagereproducedcourtesyofakg-images
2.1 GravesteleinthePiraeusMuseum:imagereproduced
courtesyofthePiraeusArchaeologicalMuseum. 35
2.2 Hellenisticmarblereliefsculpture:imagereproduced
courtesyoftheIstanbulArchaeologicalMuseum. 41
2.3 Detailofthe‘Pronomosvase’,Atticvolute-kraterof
c.400bcinNaplesArchaeologicalMuseum(Naples
Inv.81673). 41
2.4 Mosaicfrom‘Houseofthetragicpoet’atPompeii,
nowinNaplesArchaeologicalMuseum
(NaplesInv.9986). 42
3.1 ScenedepictingAugeandHeraclesonaSicilian
kalyx-krateroftheManfriaGroupinLentini,
c.340–330bc(LentiniArchaeologicalMuseum).
DrawingreproducedcourtesyofChrisUnwin. 72
3.2 Latefifth-centuryLucanianhydriafromCanosabythe
Amykospainter,depictingthedeathofCanace,in
BariArchaeologicalMuseum(Bari1535).
DrawingreproducedcourtesyofChrisUnwin. 76
3.3 Terracottasatyrholdingawrappedbaby,
fourth-centurybcBM(167891).Imagereproduced
courtesyoftheBritishMuseum. 92
4.1 PhineusandaHarpyonanAtticred-figured
neck-amphorabytheNikonpainter,470–450bc.
ReproducedcourtesyoftheBritishMuseum. 117
5.1 Chorusmendressingassatyrs,onanApulian
bell-kraterbytheTarporleypainter(Sydney47.05).
PhotographbyRussellWorkman,reproduced
courtesyoftheNicholsonMuseum,Sydney. 144
ListofIllustrations ix
5.2 SatyrandmaenadonalateWfth-centuryred-Wgured
oinochoe(Oxford534).Imagereproducedcourtesy
oftheAshmoleanMuseum. 145
5.3 ScenefromtheneckofanAtticred-figured
volute-kraterinFerrara,c.450bc(Ferrara
T.579).Imagereproducedcourtesyofthe
ArchaeologicalMuseumofFerrara. 157
Description:3. Childbearing Women: Birth and Family. Crisis in Ancient Drama. 60. 4. Visible Women: Painted Masks and Tragic. Aesthetics. 99. 5. Horny Satyrs and .. (2002), with special reference to Aeschylus' Proteus, the satyr play concluding the If the part was small, requiring only one sheet of papyrus, t
