Theatre Props and Civic Identity in Athens, 458-405 BC (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Propping up Athens Chapter 1 Casting votes in Athens Chapter 2 Trialling Props on stage I The Oresteia's appropriation of voting urns and pebbles II Dramatic retrials after 458 BC Chapter 3 A Weapon of Democracy Chapter 4 Swords drawn on the tragic stage I The Oresteia's tyrant slayers II Ajax's battlefield sphagia Chapter 5 Swords redrawn on stage I The comic re-drawing of swords II Swords redrawn again in Phoenician Women Chapter 6 The Mask in hand I Society II Theatre Conclusion Evaluating Objects Appendix Clytemnestra's sword in the Oresteia Notes Bibliography Index