Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius

Robin Mitchell‐Boyask

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Prologue 1. Introduction 2. Death, myth and drama before the Plague 3. Materials I: the language of disease in tragedy 4. Plague, cult and drama: Euripides' Hippolytus 5. Oedipus and the Plague 6. Trachiniae and the Plague 7. Materials II: the cult of Asclepius and the Theater of Dionysus 8. Disease and stasis in Euripidean drama: tragic pharmacology on the south slope of the Acropolis 9. The Athenian Asklepieion and the end of Philoctetes 10. Conclusions and afterthoughts.

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