A Companion to Greek Tragedy (Wiley Companions to the Ancient World)

A Companion to Greek Tragedy, edited by Justina Gregory, provides a substantial scholarly introduction to Greek tragedy as literature, performance and cultural practice. Its essays examine the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides while also considering the wider theatrical, religious, political and intellectual settings in which tragedy developed.

Written by specialists in the field, the volume brings together discussion of individual playwrights and plays with broader approaches to staging, audience, myth, language, reception and interpretation. It is designed as a reference and study companion for readers who want to move beyond introductory accounts and engage with the major questions and methods that shape modern scholarship on Greek tragedy.