| List of Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Note to the Reader | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | Fifth-Century Marriage and Funeral Rites | 11 |
| Ch. 2 | Weddings and Funerals: The Visual Record | 30 |
| Ch. 3 | The Bride Unveiled: Marriage to Death in Aeschylus' Agamemnon | 43 |
| Ch. 4 | The Bride and Groom of Death: Sophokles' Antigone | 59 |
| Ch. 5 | From Death Bed to Marriage Bed: Sophokles' Trachiniae | 72 |
| Ch. 6 | The Bride from the Grave: Euripides' Alkestis | 84 |
| Ch. 7 | Torching the Marriage: Euripides' Medea | 97 |
| Ch. 8 | Following Persephone: Euripides' Supplices and Helen | 110 |
| Ch. 9 | War Brides and War Dead: Euripides' Troades | 128 |
| Conclusion | 136 |
| Appendix A. The Anakalupteria | 141 |
| Appendix B. Medea 1056-80 | 143 |
| Appendix C. Helping Friends and Harming Enemies in Medea | 146 |
| Notes | 151 |
| Glossary | 217 |
| Bibliography | 221 |
| Index | 239 |
