PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction: The Elderly in Classical Antiquity
M. I. Finley
1. Homeric Heroism, Old Age and the End of the Odyssey
Thomas M. Falkner
2. Tithonos and the Tettix
Helen King
3. Old Men in the Youthful Plays of Aristophanes
Thomas K. Hubbard
4. The Wrath of Alcmene: Gender, Authority and Old Age in Euripides' Children of Heracles
Thomas M. Falkner
5. "Do Not Go Gently ..." Oedipus at Colonus and the Psychology of Aging
Thomas Van Nortwick
6. The Ashes and the Flame: Passion and Aging In Classical Poetry
Stephen Bertman
7. Horace's Old Girls: Evolution of a Topos
Carol Clemeau Esler
8. The Old Man in the Garden: Georgic 4.116-148
Jenny Strauss Clay
9. Ovid as an Idiographic Study of Creativity and Old Age
Judith de Luce
Afterword: When Fields Collide or A View from Gerontology
Mildred M. Seltzer
Bibliography: Old Age in Greco-Roman Anitquity and Early Christianity: An Annotated Select Bibliography
Emiel Eyben
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX