That the works of the ancient tragedians still have an immediate and profound appeal surely needs no demonstration, yet the modern reader continually stumbles across concepts which are difficult to interpret or relate to moral pollution, the authority of oracles, classical ideas of geography as well as the names of unfamiliar legendary and mythological figures."

A New Companion to Greek Tragedy "provides a useful reference tool for the Greekless reader: arranged on a strictly encyclopaedic pattern, with headings for all proper names occurring in the twelve most frequently read...