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The 45 pages that link to Greek tragedy, each with the reason it gives.

• Dramatic ironyNarrower topic: Dramatic irony became especially prominent in tragedies whose audiences knew familiar myths.

• AeschylusNarrower topic: Aeschylus’s surviving works are foundational examples of this genre.

• SophoclesNarrower topic: Sophocles wrote within this genre and helped establish its classical form.

• EuripidesNarrower topic: Euripides’ surviving works are a major part of the tragic repertoire and its later interpretation.

• City DionysiaNarrower topic: The festival provided a recurring public venue for tragedy’s performance and recognition.

• Oedipus RexNarrower topic: The play’s tragic form makes recognition and reversal drive the action.

• Romantic dramaNarrower topic: Its tragic structures offered later dramatists ways to make love end in catastrophe.

• Roman tragedyNarrower topic: Roman tragic plots and characters often adapt Greek dramatic models.

• The PersiansNarrower topic: The play uses tragic conventions to shape a public account of war and loss.

• AntigoneNarrower topic: Antigone belongs to this genre and stages its conflicts through formal tragedy.

• The play within a playNarrower topic: Greek drama’s embedded messenger narratives offer an early contrast with staging a complete inner play.

• CatharsisNarrower topic: The theatrical setting is where Aristotle famously used the term catharsis.

• MedeaNarrower topic: Medea belongs to this theatrical tradition and uses its chorus, actors, and tragic reversals.

• Oedipus at ColonusNarrower topic: This late tragedy turns catastrophic recognition into a solemn account of death and sanctuary.

• The BacchaeNarrower topic: The Bacchae uses tragic action to stage a clash between divine and civic authority.

• Prometheus BoundNarrower topic: The play uses tragic conventions while centering on a protagonist who remains bound throughout.

• Ulrich von Wilamowitz-MoellendorffNarrower topic: Wilamowitz’s studies connected tragic form with the historical and religious life of the Greek polis.

• PacuviusNarrower topic: Greek plays and myths supplied many of Pacuvius’s subjects and models.

• Jean AnouilhNarrower topic: Anouilh borrows its tragic plots but recasts their conflicts in modern political and psychological terms.

• Lucius AcciusNarrower topic: Greek plays and myths supplied major models for Accius’s Latin tragedies.

• Martin Litchfield WestNarrower topic: West’s studies of Greek literature and myth informed broader accounts of tragic traditions.

• Athens in the 5th century BCNarrower topic: Athenian festivals made tragedy a major public art and preserved works still widely performed.

• Eduard FraenkelNarrower topic: The dramatic conventions of tragedy provide the literary context for his study of Aeschylus.

• PratinasNarrower topic: Pratinas was known as a tragic poet as well as a satyr-play innovator.

• Women of TrachisNarrower topic: The play belongs to this dramatic tradition and uses its conventions of suffering and recognition.