I. Sophocles -- Sophocles' Philoctetes and Political Nostalgia -- Genos, Gennaios, and Athens in the Later Tragedies of Sophocles -- Sophocles' Theseus -- The Sense of Place: Oedipus at Colonus, 'Political' Geography, and the Defence of a Way of Life -- Athens and Athenian Space in Oedipus at Colonus -- II. Euripides -- Mythical Paradigms in Euripides: The Crisis of Myth -- Fragmenting the Self: Society and Psychology in Euripides' Electra and Ion -- Myth and Performance on the Athenian Stage: Praxithea, Erechtheus, their Daughters, and the Aetiology of Autochthony -- Euripides' Bacchae: The End of an Era or the Beginning of a New One? -- Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis: War and Human Sacrifice -- Leadership in Action: Wise Policy and Firm Resolve in Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis -- The Return of the Father: Euripides' Antiope, Hypsipyle, and Phoenissae -- Euripides' 'Family Reunion Plays' and their Socio-Political Resonances -- III. Aristophanes and Greek Comedy -- Women on the Acropolis and Mental Mapping: Comic Body-Politics in a City in Crisis, or Ritual and Metaphor in Aristophanes' Lysistrata -- Persians, Oligarchs, and Festivals: The Date of Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae -- Comedy and the Crises -- IV. Greek Drama -- The 'Dionysiac' Plays of Aeschylus and Euripides' Bacchae: Reaffirming Traditional Cult in Late Fifth Century -- Problem Kids: Young Males and Society from Electra to Bacchae -- Metatheatre and Crisis in Euripides' Bacchae and Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus -- Altruism, Sovereignty, and the Degeneration of Imperial Hegemony in Greek Tragedy and Thucydides -- Scripting Revolution: Democracy and its Discontents in Late Fifth-Century Drama -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- General Index.