Mostly from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, but also Europe, classicists and related scholars explore ancient Greek drama in terms of performance as meaning and action, texts as fragments
of performance, genre and performance, dramatic performance as interrogation, and the political contexts of dramatic performance. Their topics include performing the name in Sophocles' Electra,
the Persian War Tetralogy of Aeschylus, Astrateia and Lipostration on the Attic comic stage, law and spectacle in Euripides' Hecuba, and Athenian drama and democratic political culture. The 26
papers are revised from presentations at a July 2007 conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland,
OR (booknews.com)
