Innehåller index samt bibliografiska referenser

1. Epic Weapons on the Tragic Stage. Exekias’s Ajax -- From Text to Performance: Reading the Sword in Sophocles’ Ajax -- The “Deception” Speech (646–92) -- Hector’s Revenge (815–65) -- A Riddle Resolved -- Weapons and the Poetics of Reperformance -- Philoctetes’ Bow as a Haptic -- Actor -- Conclusion -- 2. Tragic Textiles and the House of Atreus. Electra in Rags -- Playing Priam in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon -- Silver-Bought Textiles and Sensory Overload -- Textilizing Agamemnon: Aeschylus and the Dokimasia Painter -- The Weaver Woven: The Tapestry Scene Re-played -- From Costume to Character -- Conclusion -- 3. The Material Poetics of Tragic Recognition -- Euripides’ Ion and the Power of the Replica Objects and Interpellation -- A Mother’s Symbola -- Containing Time in an Ageless Basket -- Autopsy, Recognition, and Collective Memory -- Signatures of the Self: Signet Rings and Secret Signs -- Putting Tokens to the Test in Euripides’ Electra -- Grafting Culture onto the Body -- The City’s Test: Recognition as Dokimasia -- A Nature-Culture Hybrid -- Falling into the Present: Recognition and Embateusis Conclusion -- 4. Electra’s Urns: Receptacles and Tragic Reception. Receptacles and Reception -- Electra’s Urn and “The Haunted Stage” -- Hidden in the Bushes -- Somatic Memories and Mourning -- Temporal Materialities -- Props as Props: An Intermedial Turn -- Props, Pathos, and Nachleben -- Conclusion -- 5. Ajax’s Shield: Bridging Troy and Athens. Ajax’s Shield as a Second Skin -- Eurysakes the Shield-Receiver -- Solon’s Sakos -- Ajax’s Exodos -- Conclusion -- 6. Tragic and Tragicomic “Letters”. The Deltos from Dodona: A Hidden Prop in Sophocles’ Trachiniae -- Co-opting the Plot: Phaedra’s Deltos and Aphrodite’s Revenge -- Reading Phaedra’s Deltos as a Defixio -- Epistolary Dysfunction in the Iphigenia Plays -- The “Rape” of the Tablet in Iphigenia at Aulis -- Conclusion.