This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase-paintings of fourth-century B.C. Greeks, especially those settled in southern Italy, are more meaningful for those who had seen the myths enacted in the popular new medium of tragedy. Of some 300 relevant vases, 109 are reproduced and accompanied by a picture-by-picture discussion. This book supplies a rich and unprecedented resource from a neglected treasury of painting. 

Aram Yardumian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Athyn College in Pennsylvania, USA.  He is the author of The Peopling of the Caucasus (Cambridge University Press, 2025) as well as several books on musicology, Listen (Errant Bodies, 2022), Persepolis (Bloomsbury, 2023), and Mesostructures (4th Dimension, forthcoming 2025).

Born in Kalmar in 1959, Tommie Haglund is a Swedish composer whose music has been praised for its "absolute honesty" and its being "the confession of a naked soul." Haglund studied classical guitar with John Mills in London from 1981-83, then at the Royal Academy of Music at Århus from 1983-85 but left without a degree to pursue composition full time. It was Mills who first introduced Haglund to the music of Frederick Delius, whose influence led to a meeting with Delius’ amanuensis, Eric Fenby, with whom Haglund later studied. He also studied composition with Sven-Eric Johanson from 1989-91. Haglund’s major works include Intensio Animi (commissioned by the Swedenborg Society to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Emanuel Swedenborg’s birth); Flaminis Aura; Hymnen An Die Nacht; and Symphony. Haglund has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Stora Christ Johnson Prize and the HMK’s medal for "significant contributions to Swedish music."  In 2013, a documentary about Haglund's life and work, Själens Musik, was broadcast on Swedish TV. The Tommie Haglund Festival, a biannual international classical music gala in Halmstad, is held in his honor.