Johanna Hanink is Assistant Professor of Classics and Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities at Brown University, Rhode Island, where she is also a member of the Graduate Field Faculty in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. She works primarily on the intellectual and performance cultures of classical Athens and has published widely on Athenian tragedy and its reception in antiquity.
Introduction: through the Lycurgan looking glass
Part I. Classical Tragedy and the Lycurgan Programme: 1. Civic poetry in Lycurgus' Against Leocrates
2. Scripts and statues, or a law of Lycurgus' own
3. Site of change, site of memory: the 'Lycurgan' Theatre of Dionysus
Part II. Reading the Theatrical Heritage: 4. Courtroom drama: Aeschines and Demosthenes
5. Classical tragedy and its comic lovers
6. Aristotle and the theatre of Athens
Epilogue: classical tragedy in the age of Macedon.