making sense of ancient performance / The misunderstanding of 'opsis' in Aristotle's 'poetics' / Propping up Greek tragedy : the right use of Opsis / Generalizing about props : Greek drama, comparator traditions, and the analysis of stage objects / Actors' properties in Ancient Greek drama : an overview / Skenographia in brief / Aeschylean Opsis / Theatricality and voting in Eumenides : "psephon d orestēi tēnd egō prosthēsomai" / Under Athena's gaze : Aeschylus' Eumenides and the topography of Opsis / Heracles' costume from Euripides' Heracles to pantomime performance / Weapons of friendship : props in Sophocles' 'Philoctetes' and 'Ajax' / Skēnē, altar and image Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians / Staging Rhesus / Actors in old comedy, again / 'The Odeion on his head' : costume and identity in Cratinus' Thracian women Fr. 73, and Cratinus' techniques of political satire / Rehearsing Aristophanes / Haven't I seen you before somewhere? Optical allusions in Republican tragedy / Anicius vortit barbare : the scenic games of L. Anicius Gallus and the aesthetics of Greek and Roman performance / Otium, opulentia and opsis : setting, performance and perception within the mise-en-scène of the Roman house / Towards a Roman theory of theatrical gesture / Lucian's 'on dance' and the poetics of the pantomime mask / Pantomime : visualising myth in the Roman Empire / Stringed instruments in fifth-century drama / Bloody (stage) business : Matthias Langhoff's Sparagmos of Euripides' 'Bacchae' (1997) / From sculpture to vase-painting : archaeological models for the actor