Index

Aeschylus

Eumenides 45–6, 88

Persians 18, 63

Suppliants

Athens, democratization of 79–80

dramatic art 79

order and disorder 103–8

reality and fiction 108–14

Alker, Hayward

reality and fiction 151, 180n. 38

Arendt, Hannah

The Human Condition 138, 178n. 1

Areopagus 30–1, 45–6, 86, 89, 94, 109–14

Barker, Derek W. M.

Tragedy and Citizenship 144, 179n. 13, 22

Bauman, Zygmunt

civilization and violence 129

Blanshard, Alastair

Hercules: A Heroic Life 63, 167n. 45

Bull, Hedley

international order 145, 178n. 8, 179n. 16

Castoriadis, Cornelius

Being is Chaos 24, 46–7

classical democracy 7

order and disorder 35

self-institution and self-limitation 23

Chan, Stephen

The End of Certainty 150, 163n. 92, 167n. 61, 169n. 99, 177n. 48, 180n. 36–7

characters

Aeschylus’ tragedy

chorus of suppliant maidens 98–9

Danaus 99

the Egyptian Herald 99–100

Pelasgus 99

Aristotle’s view 57

identities 58

Mee’s Big Love 122–4

symbolic component 58

zones of interaction 57–8

Chayut, Michael

tragic characters 57, 165n. 18, 170n. 116

democratic deliberation 4, 22

democratic politics 2, 20, 22, 39, 74, 79, 147, 152

Aeschylus’ Suppliants 21, 102

day-to-day problems, Athens 60

disorder and fiction 137

enlightenment 70–1

mass performance 139

order and disorder 143

self-institution and self-limitation 63

tool of mediation 50

tragedy’s multivocal form 9, 62

tragic dramas 44

violence 135

democratic texts 54, 77, 141

denying exteriority 76

Devetak, Richard

Violence, order, and terror 146, 177n. 39, 179n. 20

Dionysia and Lenaia festivals 43–4, 101

cacophony of voices 59

polis glorification 44

political realities 50

tragedy’s multivocal form 54

disorder see also order and disorder

rationalism 66

Docherty, Thomas

Aesthetic Democracy 148, 178n. 12, 179n. 23

Ebbott, Mary

marginal figures 98, 122, 155n. 22, 160n. 30, 165n. 19, 170n. 117

Ekklesia 30–2, 38, 45, 59, 86

Euripides

Andromache 57

Bacchae 18

the god of machines 42

The Trojan Women 1–2, 19

Fairfield, Paul

Mass rule 68, 168n. 81, 178n. 11

Felski, Rita

Rethinking Tragedy 73, 170n. 112

Foa Dienstag, Joshua

Tragedy, pessimism, Nietzsche 159n. 18

Foley, Helene 159n. 19

Forrest, W. G.

Themistokles and Argos 111, 174n. 38, 48, 175n. 55, 58, 62, 64

Fritsch, Matthias 157n. 39

Frost, Mervyn 153n. 2

Fukuyama, Francis

the end of history 142, 150, 178n. 5

Gambino, Giacomo

Greek civilization 65, 165n. 129, 167n. 58

Global scale democratic politics 3–5

Hall, Edith

tragedy’s multivocal form 8, 52

Hamilton, Edith

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 62, 166n. 38

Held, David

democracy and globalization 3, 154n. 5, 165n. 7

Holmes Beck, Robert

Aeschylus: Playwright Educator 81, 86, 171n. 8

Huntington, Samuel

clash of civilizations 150, 156n. 34

intrinsically democratic art form 6–8, 138

Kagan, Donald

ostracism 109, 159n. 22, 160n. 27, 161n. 61, 174n. 40

Karagiannis, Nathalie

human hubris 46, 164n. 112

Keane, John

civilization and violence 129, 157n. 47, 176n. 36–7, 177n. 45, 50, 55

language

Aeschylus’ tragedy

choral lyrics 100–1

passages 101–2

choral lyric 59–60

heroic dialogue 59

Mee’s Big Love 124–7

McCall, Marsh

Athens’ citizens 84, 171n. 15, 172n. 22, 30

Mee’s Big Love

characters 122–4

language 124–7

order and disorder 128–32

plots 118–22

reality and fiction 132–6

Mendelsohn, Daniel

The Greek way 77, 124, 135–6, 171n. 129, 176n. 24, 177n. 54, 178n. 65

Monaghan, Paul

god of theatre 46, 164n. 103, 109, 117, 166n. 35, 175n. 7

Morgenthau, Hans J.

Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace 150, 179n. 28, 30

Nietzsche’s democracy 159–60

Ober, Josiah

historical texts 25, 158n. 14, 159n. 24

order and disorder 14, 52, 54, 63, 93, 135, 141–7, 151

Aeschylus’ Suppliants 103–8

Castoriadis writings 35

civilization and violence 135

democratic revolution 34

discontent and anger 138

enlightenment 70

Mee’s Big Love 117, 128–32

self-institution and self-limitation 139

tragedy’s multivocal form 6, 8–11

plots

Aeschylus’ tragedy 94–8

dramatic representations 55–6

Mee’s Big Love 118–22

social and political multiplicity 56–7

political power, monopoly of 3

political reality 9, 74, 139

international relations 149

Mee’s Big Love 127

messy and chaotic nature 15

order and disorder 11

rationalism 65

tragedy’s multivocal form 60

zooming 63

rationalism 63, 65–6

reading interpretations 75–6

reality and fiction 14, 39, 53–4, 69, 93, 102, 137, 140, 147, 151

Aeschylus’ Suppliants 108–14

Mee’s Big Love 117, 132–6

rationalization 13

self-institution and self-limitation 139

tragedy’s multivocal form 8–10

zooming and distancing 63

Reilly, Kara

civilization and violence 127, 133, 176n. 32, 177n. 56

Ridgeway, William

The Origin of Tragedy 42, 163n. 84

Rocco, Christopher

Tragedy and Enlightenment 16, 156n. 35, 157n. 38

Ross, Daniel

violence 135, 160n. 28, 161n. 49, 178n. 64

Russett, Bruce

democratic peace theory 142, 178n. 4

Said, Edward

Orientalism 18, 157n. 45

Schmidt, Dennis

In tragedies 72, 167n. 59, 170n. 108

Schoolman, Morton

Reason and Horror 71, 169n. 100

self-institution 36

act of creation 139

and self-limitation 27, 38, 48, 52, 63

Shapiro, Michael

Violent Cartographies 129, 171n. 125, 177n. 40, 42

social environments 76

Sophocles’ Antigone 47–8, 56

Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane

zooming and distancing 63

Steiner, George 70, 167n. 62, 169n. 95

Stein, Howard

Theater as a humanizing force 144, 179n. 15

Thomson, George

Aeschylus and Athens 79, 171n. 1

tragedy’s multivocal form 69, 91, 132

characters 57–8

democratic impact 53–4

democratic insights 5–6

framework 74–5

Greek Enlightenment 71

intrinsically democratic art form 6–8

language 59–64

order and disorder 6, 9, 11–12, 143–6

order and reality 72

plots 55–7

political legitimacy 67

reality and fiction 9–10, 147–8

self-institution and self-limitation 51–2, 139

tragic drama 5, 20, 55, 97, 144

agons 40

audience 58

centrality 2

democratic way of life 42

dithyramb–satyrikon 41

fictional characters 58

fifth-century Athens 93

god of paradox 46

mass performance 3, 23

potential 52

theatricality 47

Turner, Chad 93, 97, 113, 173n. 3, 7, 174n. 31, 175n. 65

Vernant, Jean-Pierre 26, 56, 158n. 16, 165n. 12, 166n. 27–8, 30, 167n. 47, 168n. 66

virtue of distancing 63

Walker, R. B. J.

One World, Many Worlds 146, 179n. 21

Weber, Cynthia

International Relations Theory 150, 179n. 33

Weir Smyth, Herbert

Aeschylean Tragedy 91, 93, 172n. 33, 35, 53, 173n. 1, 6

Wertenbaker, Timberlake

The voices we hear 128, 176n. 33

Winkler, John and Froma Zeitlin

Athenian Drama in Its Social Context 25, 158n. 11

Wolin, Sheldon

What has Athens to do with Washington? 152, 154n. 4

Woodruff, Paul

The Necessity of Theater 57, 165n. 15

Young, Damon

reality and fiction 149, 179n. 31