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"Examines the ideas of justice in Euripidean tragedy, which reveals the human experience of justice to be paradoxical, and reminds us of the need for humility in our unceasing quest for a just world"--.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • The “Seeing Place” and the Great Dionysia Festival
  • The Life of Euripides and Transmission of His Plays
  • Outline of the Book
• Part I: Justice in the City
  • Chapter 1 The Medea: What Justice Conceals
    • The Mythological Context and Plot of the Medea
      • Background Myth
      • Euripides’s Medea
      • Euripides’s Potential Innovations
    • Justice: How to Distinguish Friends and Enemies
    • Justice: Oath Making and Oath Breaking
    • Justice: Retribution and Rejuvenation
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 2 The Bacchae: Justice, Dialectics, and Dismemberment
    • The Mythological Context and Plot of the Bacchae
      • Background Myth
      • Euripides’s Bacchae
      • Euripides’s Potential Innovations
    • Justice: Dualism and the God of Wine
    • Justice: By Whose Authority?
    • Justice and the God of “What Is Not”
      • A Third Way: Traditional Authority
      • Pentheusian Dionysus or Dionysian Pentheus?
    • Justice: Dialectics and Mutilated Endings
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 The Phoenician Women: Justice is Multicolored
    • The Mythological Context and Plot of the Phoenician Women
      • Background Myth
      • Euripides’s Phoenician Women
      • Euripides’s Potential Innovations
    • The Justice Agōn: When Being Right Is Not Enough
    • Justice as Self-Sacrifice: Blood Price and the Needs of the Many
    • Justice: Irreconcilable Good Things
    • Conclusion
• Part II: Justice in Sacred Spaces
  • Chapter 4 The Ion: Justice, In and Out of Bounds
    • The Mythological Context and Plot of the Ion
      • Background Myth
      • Euripides’s Ion
      • Euripides’s Potential Innovations
    • Justice: Only Helping My Friends
    • Justice: Separating Good from Bad
    • Justice: Boundaries and the Double
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 The Children of Heracles: And Justice for Others
    • The Mythological Context and Plot of the Children of Heracles
      • Background Myth
      • Euripides’s Children of Heracles
      • Euripides’s Potential Innovations
    • Justice as Friendship: Helping Those in Need
    • Justice as Merit: Helping Friends by Saving Oneself
    • Justice as Merit: Harming Enemies
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6 The Suppliant Women: Justice among Cities
    • The Mythological Context and Plot of the Suppliant Women
      • Background Myth
      • Euripides’s Suppliant Women
      • Euripides’s Potential Innovations
    • International Justice: War and Panhellenic Law
    • Political Justice: International Community and the Next Generations
    • Conclusion
• Part III: Justice in the Wilderness
  • Chapter 7 The Hecuba: Justice as Autonomy
    • The Mythological Context and Plot of the Hecuba
      • Background Myth
      • Euripides’s Hecuba
      • Euripides’s Potential Innovations
    • Justice: As Rhetoric
    • Justice: As Pity?
    • Justice: As Power
    • Justice: As Autonomy and Freedom
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8 The Alcestis: Justice as Generosity, or Too Much of a Good Thing
    • The Mythological Context and Plot of the Alcestis
      • Background Myth
      • Euripides’s Alcestis
      • Euripides’s Potential Innovations
    • Justice: What Do I Owe You, My Friend?
      • Justice: Generosity and Gratitude (Kharis)
      • Justice: Generosity of Friendship (Xenia)
    • Justice: The Boundary In-Between
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9 The Electra: The Justice of Good and Bad Judgment
    • The Mythological Context and Plot of the Electra
      • Background Myth
    • Euripides’s Electra
      • Euripides’s Potential Innovations
    • Questions of Justice: Orestes’s Moral Conundrum
    • Justice: Judgment and Justification
    • Justice: Seeing with Free Eyes
    • Conclusion
• Conclusion
  • Justice in Euripides’s Tragedies
    • Justice: Helping Friends and Harming Enemies
    • Justice of Oaths, Merit, and Correction
    • Justice: Boundaries and Limits
  • Final Thoughts
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index