Section 1. Aristotle's Poetics: New fictions for old -- Imitation and action -- Human beings -- Conspectus -- Section 2. Aeschylus: The matter of a date -- Agamemnon's murder -- The House of Atreus -- The Aeschylean norm -- Section 3. Sophocles: Sophocles's Electra: the Orestes myth rephrased -- Sophocles and the Poetics -- Men and mutability -- Ajax -- Action and actors: Antigone and Oedipus the king -- Oedipus at Colonus -- Section 4. Euripides: Euripides's Electra: a third version of the myth -- The unhoused talent -- Coda.
