Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been discussed, parodied, translated, revisioned, adapted, and integrated into other works over the course of the last 2500 years. Immensely popular while alive, Aeschylus’ reception begins in his own lifetime. And, while he has not been the most reproduced of the three Attic tragedians on the stage since then, his receptions have transcended genre and crossed to nearly every continent. While still engaging with Aeschylus’ theatrical reception, the volume also explores Aeschylus off the stage--in radio, the classroom, television, political theory, philosophy, science fiction and beyond.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Abbreviations Author Biographies Introduction: The Reception of Aeschylus  Rebecca Futo Kennedy Part 1: Pre-Modern Receptions 1 The Reception of Aeschylus in Sicily  David G. Smith 2 The Comedians’ Aeschylus  David Rosenbloom 3 Aristotle’s Reception of Aeschylus: Reserved Without Malice  Dana Lacourse Munteanu 4 Aeschylus in the Hellenistic Period  Sebastiana Nervegna 5 Aeschylus in the Roman Empire  George W. M. Harrison 6 Aeschylus in Byzantium  Christos Simelidis Part 2: Modern Receptions 7 Aeschylus and Opera  Michael Ewans 8 Aeschylus in Germany  Theodore Ziolkowski 9 Inglorious Barbarians: Court Intrigue and Military Disaster Strike Xerxes, “The Sick Man of Europe”  Gonda Van Steen 10 Transtextual Transformations of Prometheus Bound in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound: Prometheus’ Gifts to Humankind  Fabien Desset 11 Aeschylus and Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley  Ana González-Rivas Fernández 12 An Aeschylean Waterloo: Responding to War from the Oresteia to Vanity Fair  Barbara Witucki 13 Form and Money in Wagner’s Ring and Aeschylean Tragedy  Richard Seaford 14 Eumenides and Newmenides: Academic Furies in Edwardian Cambridge  Patrick J. Murphy and Fredrick Porcheddu 15 The Broadhead Hypothesis: Did Aeschylus Perform Word Repetition in Persians?  Stratos E. Constantinidis 16 Persians On French Television: An Opera—Oratorio Echoing the Algerian War  Gabriel Sevilla 17 Aeschylus’ Oresteia on British Television  Amanda Wrigley 18 Orestes On Trial in Africa: Pasolini’s Appunti Per un’Orestiade Africana and Sissako’s Bamako  Tom Hawkins 19 Reception of the Plays of Aeschylus in Africa  Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 20 In Search of Prometheus: Aeschylean Wanderings in Latin America  Jacques A. Bromberg 21 Avatars of Aeschylus: O’Neill to Herzog/Golder  Marianne McDonald 22 The Overlooked οἰκονομία of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining  Geoffrey Bakewell 23 “Now Harkonnen Shall Kill Harkonnen”: Aeschylus, Dynastic Violence, and Twofold Tragedies in Frank Herbert’s Dune  Brett M. Rogers 24 “Save Our City”: The Curious Absence of Aeschylus in Modern Political Thought  Arlene W. Saxonhouse 25 Political Theory in Aeschylean Drama: Ancient Themes and their Contemporary Reception  Larissa Atkison and Ryan K. Balot Index