Pat Easterling's articles are fundamental to her status as one of the most influential Hellenists of her generation. Characterised by unostentatious astuteness and an arresting capacity for observation, they put forward tersely considered arguments that have the weight of much longer discussions. Exacting attention to language and detail combines with clear-sighted openness to new developments within and beyond the discipline to allow the texts to speak in deeply human terms. This collection gathers significant articles from all stages of Easterling's career, many of them major points of reference. Volume 1 is devoted to Greek tragedy, and represents in particular her great affinity for Sophocles. Volume 2 presents work on other Greek literature, acting, transmission, scholia, reception, history of scholarship. Reflecting Easterling's extensive academic ties, several of the articles were originally published in less well-known volumes and are here made more widely available.
Part I. The Iliad and Early Greek Literature: 1. Agamemnon's skēptron in the Iliad; 2. Men's κλέος and women's γόος: female voices in the Iliad; 3. Holy thebe; 4. Alcman 58 and Simonides 37; 5. Looking for Omphale; 6. Friendship and the Greeks; Part II. Actors: 7. Actors and voices: reading between the lines in Aeschines and Demosthenes'; 8. Actor as icon; Part III. Manuscripts and Transmission: 9. From Britain to Byzantium: the study of Greek manuscripts; Before palaeography: notes on early descriptions and datings of Greek manuscripts; 10. Menander – loss and survival; 11. Fata libellorum: Hyperides and the transmission of Attic oratory; Part IV. Scholia: 12. Notes on notes: The ancient scholia on Sophocles; 13. The Chorus in Greek tragedy according to the ancient commentaries (translated by Laura Slatkin); 14. Σεμνός and its cognates in the Sophoclean scholia; 15. Space in the tragic scholia; 16. Sophocles and the Byzantine student; 17. Reading Sophocles with Manuel Moschopoulos; Part V. Reception and History of Scholarship: 18. Agamemnon for the ancients dramatic identities: Tragedy in late antiquity (with Richard Miles); 19. George Eliot and Greek tragedy; 20. Richard Jebb: general introduction; 21. 'The speaking page': reading Sophocles with Richard Jebb; 22. The early years of the Cambridge Greek play: 1882–1912; 23. Gibert Murray's reading of Euripides; 24. Sophocles: the first thousand years; 25. The survival of Greek; 26. A taste for the classics; Works cited; Index locorum; General index.
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