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

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

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• Estudos teatrais
• História da arte: arte antiga e clássica, BCE a c 500 CE
• História clássica / civilização clássica