ABSTRACT
Both Greek tragedy and comedy have provided us with some memorable characters afflicted with disability, notably those who are blind, lame, and temporarily insane. Deafness rarely features. The playwrights we shall be drawing upon are Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. There are no disabled characters in either the surviving plays of Aeschylus or Menander. My principal focus will be the depiction of the disabled in drama and the evidence that drama provides for the treatment of the disabled. Though we have to proceed cautiously when seeking to draw inferences about social attitudes from drama, its evidence is hardly less trustworthy than that which derives from any other genre or indeed artistic medium.
