Index

Achilles, 74, 75

akribeia, 78, 80, 93

alchemy, 95, 97, 98, 99, 131

alienation, 10, 17, 19, 24, 26, 28, 32, 33, 43, 62, 106

alphabet, 61, 79, 107, 117, 119, 131

apate, 48–52, 54

appearance, 50, 52, 59, 62, 72

Aristogeiton, 87, 90–93

Aristotle, 9, 13, 15, 20, 26, 43, 76, 78, 132

asterisk, 119

avarice, 15, 17, 25, 27, 121, 124. See also greed; miser; stinginess

Bergson, Henri, 104

black, vii, viii, 7, 8, 56, 79, 82, 89, 98, 99, 105, 113, 114, 118

blame. See praise

blood, 6, 7, 9, 70, 87, 98

Bremen speech, 29, 40, 41, 43, 94–95

Büchner, George, 62

Buber, Martin, 33, 34, 35, 62, 67

buffalo, 97, 98

burial, 26, 27, 39, 75, 93

Cezanne, Paul, 105

charis. See grace

chequer, 79, 80

Cicero, 38, 39, 40, 42, 107

coin, 3, 10–11, 16, 19, 20, 22, 25, 27, 41, 45, 77, 85, 100, 129, 134

commodification, 17, 18, 19, 38

commodity, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 28, 39, 43, 76, 77, 106, 107, 125, 131

commodity exchange. See commodity

consonant, 117

contrafactuality, 8, 32, 57, 58, 65, 121, 133

Danaë, 55, 57, 58, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 121, 133

deception. See apate

Dioskouroi, 39, 40, 43, 44, 107

double-negative, 76, 100, 101, 106, 126

elegiac couplet. See elegiac verse

elegiac verse, 59, 76, 89–90, 91, 92, 131

epinikion. See victory ode

epitaph, 26, 27, 53, 73–99, 106

etching, 111, 112, 113, 114, 118

Euboea, battle of, 75, 76

Fields, W. C., 101

Floating Weeds. See Ozu

gift, 11–20, 25, 27, 40, 42, 43, 80, 106

gift exchange. See gift

Giotto, 88

God, viii, 27, 36, 37, 44, 58, 61, 62, 65, 67, 113, 114, 117, 125

goddess, 20, 41

gods, 14, 36, 39, 40, 42, 101, 125, 126, 131. See also Dioskouroi

gold, 10, 16, 95, 99, 127, 128, 129

Gorgias, 16, 48, 49, 50, 54

grace, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 40, 43, 83, 106, 117, 129

gratitude, 14, 39, 41. See also grace

greed, 3, 17, 24, 124. See also avarice; miser; stinginess

guest. See hospitality

hare, 19, 21, 22, 34, 106

Harmodios. See Aristogeiton

Hebrew, 36, 116, 117, 131

Hipparchos, 19, 90, 91, 92

Hippias, 90, 91, 92, 93

Hieron, 21, 22, 24, 25, 31, 34, 42, 43, 59, 61, 106

Heraklitos, 51, 52, 58, 59, 60

Hölderlin, Friedrich, vii, 3, 6, 120, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133

Homer, 11, 13, 14, 21, 25, 40, 41, 49, 73, 78, 79, 121

hospitality, 12, 13–14, 18, 21, 23, 27, 31, 33, 39, 42, 43, 131

host. See hospitality

hymn, 128, 129, 131

illusion. See apate

Isolt. See Tristan

Kaddish, 36, 37

Kastor. See Dioskouroi

King Lear, 100, 116, 118

kosmiotes, 25, 31, 42

Kroisos, 111, 113

Leonardo da Vinci, 48, 50

Leonidas, 52–55, 76, 87

Leopardi, Giacomo, 103

literary criticism (invented by Simonides), 46, 49

Lukács, George, vii

Luxemburg, Rosa, 95, 97, 98, 99

Mallarmé, Stéphane, vii, 3, 6, 115, 119

Marx, Karl, 12, 15, 17, 19, 20–21, 24, 28, 45, 75, 106, 107, 108

Meister Eckhart, 114

memory, vii, 5, 15, 37, 38–44, 53, 74, 78, 81, 83, 85, 95, 107, 110, 117, 130, 131

Meridian speech, 69, 71, 95

Middlemarch, 104

mimesis, 52, 95

miser, 15, 25, 78, 80. See also avarice; greed; stinginess

mule, 26, 123

Nazis, 29, 30

negative, 6, 8, 76, 100–119, 126, 129. See also double-negative

nothing, 5, 6, 8, 9, 50, 61, 64, 67, 82, 85, 89, 99, 100, 101, 104, 107, 108, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119, 125, 126

overtranslation, 60

Ozu, 105

painting, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 58, 60, 61, 62, 69, 79, 82, 88, 103, 105

Parmenides, 103

Perseus. See Danaë

Pittakos, 125, 126

Plato, 19, 48, 49, 50, 101

Polydeukes. See Dioskouroi

Polygnotos, 46, 47, 48, 49, 61

praise, 37, 39, 40, 41, 53, 87, 121, 122, 123, 125, 126, 127, 129, 131, 133, 134

Protagoras, 49, 50, 51, 54, 61, 62, 103, 104, 124

Protagoras, 101, 124

proto-sophist (Simonides as), 49

reading, 8, 9, 34, 40, 51, 52, 62, 69, 71, 75, 78, 79, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 90, 92, 93, 94, 101, 104, 106, 111, 120, 131

red, 7, 8, 9, 79, 82, 89, 97, 98, 99

Rhine, 131, 132

riddle, 23, 130, 131, 132, 133

Rilke, 94

Sachs, Nelly, 34, 36

salvaging, 30, 31, 34, 36, 43, 129

salvation, 7, 8, 27, 36, 61, 74, 82, 95, 97, 99, 107, 120, 122

seeming. See appearance

silence, 32, 33, 34, 46, 57, 63, 66, 83, 84, 88, 118, 132, 133

Skopas, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 106, 107

sleep, 5, 9, 55–60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 121, 131, 133

smoke, 32, 42, 85, 101, 102, 127, 128, 129

sophist, 16, 48, 49, 50, 54, 61, 62, 102, 103

Spinther, 82, 83, 84, 85, 99

stinginess, 10, 23, 51, 55, 106, 134. See also avarice; greed; miser

stoichedon, 79, 82

stone, 5, 27, 32, 63, 66, 73, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 95, 111, 113, 114

surplus value, 27, 55, 108

symbolon, 18

Theokritos, 38, 39

Thermopylai, 52, 53, 76, 77, 87. See also Leonidas

Theseus, 7, 8, 121

time, vii, viii, 3, 5, 12, 13, 18, 20, 41, 42, 43, 53, 61, 74, 77, 78, 80, 81, 84, 87, 89, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 116, 117, 119, 131, 132, 133

translation, viii, 13, 27, 28, 29, 42, 60, 65, 84, 91, 109, 113, 115, 116

Tristan, 4, 7

truth, 3, 8, 9, 23, 25, 42, 48, 50, 51, 59, 60, 61, 94, 103, 110, 113, 118, 126, 127, 129, 132

Valois, Nicholas, 97

victory ode, 26, 122, 123, 125

void, 38, 40, 66, 104, 108, 109, 110, 113, 117

vowel, 83, 84, 86, 116

writing, vii, viii, 26, 28, 29, 34, 52, 62, 67, 78, 79, 81, 83, 84, 85, 93, 97, 98, 99, 112, 119, 120, 121

xenia, 13–14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 34, 38, 42

Yizkor, 36, 37, 44