Sensing Greek Drama

Sensing Greek Drama explores ancient Greek tragedy and comedy through the lens of the senses. It works within and beyond a number of recent developments in the scholarship of Classics and related fields. The individual chapters engage with the senses in drama in manifold ways: through various theoretical frameworks borrowed from kindred fields in the humanities and sciences – postmodernism, humanism, feminism, phenomenology, cognitive theory and neuroscience, to name a few – as well as through the more traditional approaches within Classics, including philology, historicism, performance studies and reception. Above all, Sensing Greek Drama serves as a call to “to recover our senses”, as Susan Sontag wrote in her famous essay “Against Interpretation”, in a modern age characterized by sensory overload and deprivation.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Senses and Form
  • 1. Monads on the Sonic Fold: Disquiet in Sophocles’ Antigone Ben Radcliffe
  • 2. Euripidean Lyric through the Eyes ofAristophanes Marcus Ellis
  • 3. The Dynamics of Physical, Aesthetic and Cultural Taste in Aristophanes Afroditi Angelopoulou
• Part II: Senses and Power
  • 4. “But not a word about me” (περὶ ἐμοῦ δ’ οὐδεὶς λόγος) Sensing Xanthias in Aristophanes’ Frogs Zachary Case
  • 5. Smell, Sex and Gender in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata Antonia Marie Reinke
• Part III: Senses and Vitality
  • 6. Seeing in Euripides’ Alcestis and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale Katharine A. Craik
  • 7. Touching Death in Euripides’ Alcestis Chiara Blanco
• Part IV: Senses and Audiences
  • 8. Bodies that Shock: The Erinyes and Lyssa Naomi Weiss
  • 9. Making Sense of Surprisal: Thaumastos on the Ancient Stage – A Cognitive Approach Peter Meineck
• Bibliography