The Retrospective Muse showcases the celebrated work of Froma I. Zeitlin. Over many decades, Zeitlin's innovative studies have changed the field of classics. Her instantly recognizable work brings together anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, and an acute literary sensibility to open ancient texts and ideas to new forms of understanding. A selection of her luminous essays on topics still timely today are collected for the first time in a volume that shows the full range and flair of her remarkable intellect. Together, these illuminating analyses show why Zeitlin's work on ancient Greek culture has had an enduring impact on scholars across the world, not just in classics but across multiple fields. From Homer to the Greek novel, from religion to erotics, from myth and ritual to theatrical performance, she expounds on some of the most important works of ancient writing and some of modernity's most significant critical questions. Zeitlin's writing still sheds light on the durable aspects of classics as a discipline, and this book encapsulates her achievement.

Introduction
Part 1:: Erotics, Myth, Gender
1. Eros Tyrannos
2. Configurations of Rape in Greek Myth
3. Religion and Erotics in the Ancient Novel
4. Gendered Ambiguities, Hybrid Formations, and theImaginary of the Body in Achilles Tatius
Part II: Encounters with the Divine
5. Apollo and Dionysus: Starting from Birth
6. Cultic Models of the Female: Rites of Dionysus and Demeter
7. Sacrifices Holy and Unholy in Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris
Part III: Urban Mythographies Cities on Stage
8. Staging Dionysus Between Thebes and Athens
9. Patterns of Gender in Aeschylean Drama: Seven Against Thebes and the Danaid Trilogy in Argos
10. Troy and Tragedy: The Conscience of Hellas
11. Aristophanes: The Performance of Utopia in the Ecclesiazousae
Part IV: Reception: Later Echoes
12. Radical Theater: Richard Schechner's Dionysus in 69

Froma I. Zeitlin is Ewing Professor Emeritus of Greek Language and Literature and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She is the author of several books including Under the Sign of the Shield and Playing the Other and coeditor of Before Sexuality and Nothing to Do with Dionysos?