Tragedy Offstage: Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments It is impossible to acknowledge everyone who sustained and enriched a work so many years in the making, so I will be brief. Bryn Mawr dissertation advisors T. Corey Brennan and Richard Hamilton supplied the encouragement and criticism that launched two of the chapters here. The other three chapters could not have been written without a research leave from The College of Wooster, nor could the project have been completed without an American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. Jim Burr at the University of Texas Press steadfastly supported the idea for the book, as did Leslie Lebl. Friends and colleagues who generously read and commented on all or part of the manuscript at various stages included Neil Bernstein, Tom Falkner, Tom Figueira, Edward M. Harris, Edith Hall, Bruce Heiden, and Martha Malamud. I am grateful to them all. Anonymous readers caught mistakes, proposed useful revisions, and were kind enough not to complain about inconsistencies in the transliteration of Greek proper nouns. Audiences at the paper sessions and lectures where I presented this research over the years offered stimulating remarks and insights. ManythankstoFloyd,whosharedthesojourninMexicoCitythatinspired the central question of Tragedy Offstage, and thanks also to Jack, Claire, and Audrey for bringing me joy throughout the years that I worked on it. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK tragedy offstage THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...