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Intro -- Series Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 0.1. Introducing Off-stage Groups -- 0.2. Existing Scholarship On Off-stage Groups -- 0.3. Methodology And Related Scholarship -- 0.4. Defining Groups -- 0.5. Division Of Material -- 0.6. Book Outline -- 1. Motifs Of Group Psychology In Classical Greek Prose -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Groups As Psychological Units -- 1.3. Groups' Decision-making Abilities -- 1.4. How Groups Are Controlled -- 1.5. Group Communication And Noise -- 1.6. Conclusions 2. Collective Political Decision-making In Tragedy -- 2.1. Debating Democracy: Euripides' Suppliants -- 2.2. 'the Thoroughly-persuaded Dêmos'? Aeschylus' Suppliants -- 2.3. The Hostile Dêmos: Orestes -- 2.4. Conclusions -- 3. Collective Political Decision-making In Aristophanes -- 3.1. The Off-stage Boule¡ In Knights -- 3.2. Dêmos On Stage In Knights -- 3.3. Individual And Collective In Assembly-women -- 3.4. Chorus As Collective In Birds -- 3.5. Conclusions -- 4. Off-stage Populations -- 4.1. Misreading The Population: Antigone -- 4.2. Using The Population: Oedipus At Colonus 4.3. The Watching Population: Oedipus Tyrannus -- 4.4. Impotent Populations In Aeschylus -- 4.5. Conclusions -- 5. 'political' Armies In Tragedy -- 5.1. Fear And The Army In Ia -- 5.2. Women And The Army In Ia -- 5.3. Armed Politics In Ia -- 5.4. Ia: Conclusions -- 5.5. Armies As Powerful Off-stage Presences -- 5.6. Armies As Poleis -- 5.7. Conclusions -- 6. Female Groups -- 6.1. 'the Women's De¡mos': Thesmophoriazusae -- 6.2. 'like Artemisia': Lysistrata -- 6.3. 'best Of The Trojan Women': Hecuba -- 6.4. 'battle With The Maenads': Bacchae -- 6.5. Conclusions -- 7. Conclusions 7.1. What Connects Off-stage Groups? -- 7.2. Depicting Communities: Off-stage Groups And Choruses -- 7.3. Re-arranging Source Material: Temporal And Author-specific Patterns -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index Alexandra Hardwick. Also Issued In