Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 Aeschylus and war -- PART I Modern perspectives -- 2 Aeschylus on war: a conversation with Lieutenant Colonel Kristen Janowsky -- 3 Aeschylus, gangland Naples, and the Siege of Sarajevo: Mario Martone's Teatro di Guerra -- 4 Thebes as high-collateral-damage target: moral accountability for killing in Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes -- PART II Ancient perspectives -- 5 Greek armies against towns: siege warfare and the Seven against Thebes -- 6 Eteocles and Thebes in Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes -- 7 The music of war in Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes -- 8 Fathers and sons in war: Seven against Thebes, Pythian 8, and the polemics of genre -- PART III The destruction of Thebes, ancient and modern -- 9 Aeschylus and the destruction of Thebes: what did Apollo's oracle mean? -- 10 The destruction of Thebes in Brecht's Antigone (1948) -- Bibliography -- Index