Pollution and crisis in Greek tragedy / Fabian Meinel.

Innehåller index samt bibliografiska referenser (s.247-267)

Introduction -- 1. Pollution, interpretation and understanding. Euripides' Hippolytus -- A journey inwards: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus -- 2. Pollution and the stability of civic space. Law and stability and ancient Greece -- Pollution and civic stability -- Sophocles' Antigone -- 3. Evaluation and stability in Aeschylus' Oresteia. Part I: Evaluation, justice, pollution -- Part II: Stability and justice -- Appendix: pollution, purification, release -- Excursus: re-reading the Oresteia. Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians -- Release and purification in Iphigenia among the Taurians and the Oresteia -- Pollution, purification and release -- Metatheatre, rewriting and the question of release -- 4. Pollution, purity and civic identity -- Purity, space and civic identity -- Ethnic purity and identity -- Aeschylus' Suppliants -- Purity, territory, identity -- Purity, sanctity, virginity -- Sacred space, virginity and civic space -- Sophoclean variations: excursus to Colonus -- Euripides' Ion -- Envoi.