Ancient Greece and the German cultural imagination -- Mendelssohn's Antigone and the rebirth of Greek tragedy -- The reception of Antigone and the aesthetics of appropriation -- The growth of a genre : Taubert's Medea and the Greek stage revival in Berlin -- Mendelssohn and Oedipus in the age of Chistianity -- Lachner and the emergence of a new Athens -- The Wagnerian turn -- Epilogue : the decline of a genre
