Outputs (8)

Departing the Polis: Travel and Travellers in the Extant Plays and Fragments of Greek Drama (2025)
Book
Lamari, A., & Stewart, E. (Eds.). Departing the Polis: Travel and Travellers in the Extant Plays and Fragments of Greek Drama. De Gruyter

This is the first study of travel, or mobility, and the ancient Greek theatre. The essays collected here, by leading figures in the field of ancient drama, examine both historical travel (the actual mobility of audiences and performers who attended t... Read More about Departing the Polis: Travel and Travellers in the Extant Plays and Fragments of Greek Drama.

The Profession of Mousikē in Classical Greece (2020)
Book Chapter
Edmund, S. (2020). The Profession of Mousikē in Classical Greece. In E. Stewart, E. Harris, & D. Lewis (Eds.), Skilled labour and professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome. Cambridge University Press

Inner Nature and Outward Appearance in Euripides' Electra (2019)
Journal Article
STEWART, E. (2022). Inner Nature and Outward Appearance in Euripides' Electra. PHOENIX, 73(3-4), 237-261. https://doi.org/10.1353/phx.2019.0017

This paper presents a new interpretation of Euripides’ Electra centred on the issue of hereditary excellence. The question of how nobility is to be defined and recognised forms a unifying theme of this work and is of crucial importance for the develo... Read More about Inner Nature and Outward Appearance in Euripides' Electra.

»There’s nothing worse than athletes«: criticism of athletics and professionalism in the archaic and classical periods (2019)
Journal Article
Edmund, S. (2019). »There’s nothing worse than athletes«: criticism of athletics and professionalism in the archaic and classical periods. Nikephoros: Zeitschrift fuer Sport und Kultur im Altertum, 27(2014),

Victory in the great athletic games was widely seen in the Greek world as one of the summits of human achievement. Yet a surprisingly large number of texts present a negative view of athletics, including Xenophanes fr. 2 West and Euripides fr. 282 Tr... Read More about »There’s nothing worse than athletes«: criticism of athletics and professionalism in the archaic and classical periods.

Ion of Chios: the case of a foreign poet in classical Sparta (2018)
Journal Article
Edmund, S. (2018). Ion of Chios: the case of a foreign poet in classical Sparta. Classical Quarterly, 68(2), 394-407. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838819000016

This paper aims to reassess one piece of evidence for the performance of music and poetry in classical Sparta: an elegy by the Chian poet Ion (fr. 27 West). It is argued here that this poem evokes the atmosphere of a Spartan festival and, specificall... Read More about Ion of Chios: the case of a foreign poet in classical Sparta.

Greek tragedy on the move: the birth of a panhellenic art form c.500-300 BC (2017)
Book
Stewart, E. (2017). Greek tragedy on the move: the birth of a panhellenic art form c.500-300 BC. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747260.001.0001

This work is the first full-length study of the dissemination of Greek tragedy in the earliest period of the history of drama. In recent years, especially with the growth of reception studies, scholars have become increasingly interested in studying... Read More about Greek tragedy on the move: the birth of a panhellenic art form c.500-300 BC.

Professionalism and the poetic persona in archaic Greece (2016)
Journal Article
Stewart, E. (in press). Professionalism and the poetic persona in archaic Greece. Cambridge Classical Journal, 62, https://doi.org/10.1017/S175027051600004X

Greek poets of the archaic period, though often characterised as amateur aristocrats, could also seek to present themselves as professionals – regular practitioners of a specialist skill (τέχνη). In this capacity, the poet is understood to work prima... Read More about Professionalism and the poetic persona in archaic Greece.

An ancient theatre dynasty: the elder Carcinus, the young Xenocles and the sons of Carcinus in Aristophanes (2016)
Journal Article
Stewart, E. (2016). An ancient theatre dynasty: the elder Carcinus, the young Xenocles and the sons of Carcinus in Aristophanes. Philologus, 160(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2016-0001

The elder Carcinus and his sons are mentioned, or appear on stage, as tragic performers in three plays by Aristophanes (Wasps, Clouds and Peace). They provide a unique insight into how the performance of tragedy could be (and frequently was) a family... Read More about An ancient theatre dynasty: the elder Carcinus, the young Xenocles and the sons of Carcinus in Aristophanes.