Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Working Toward a Material Presence 2. Ritual Management of Desire: The Reproduction of Sexuality 3. In and Out of the City: Imaginary Citizens 4. Representing Women: Ritual as a Cultural Resource 5. Women Represented: Ritual in Drama References Index

About the Author

Barbara Goff is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading. She is editor of History, Tragedy, Theory: Dialogues on Athenian Drama (1995) and author of The Noose of Words: Readings of Desire, Violence, and Language in Euripides' Hippolytos (1990).