Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction

1. Aeschylus’s Persians: The Messenger and Epic Narrative
2. The Literary Messenger, the Tragic Messenger
3. Euripides’ Bacchae: The Spectator in the Text
4. Homer and the Art of Fiction in Sophocles’ Electra
5. Rhesos and Poetic Tradition
6. Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus: Epistemology and Tragic Practice

Appendix: Messengers in Greek Tragedy
Works Cited
Index