Acharnians (Aristophanes), ix, 163–68
Adorno, Theodor, 50, 53, 117, 126, 220n10
Aeschylus, 36–37, 42–44, 85, 118, 131
Alcibiades, 5
Althusser, Louis, 81–83, 90, 148
Amazons, 109
anarchism, xii
Andromeda, 113
animals, 2, 47, 56, 91–92, 100
Antigone, x, 20, 23–27, 37, 46, 97, 207
Antigone (Sophocles), 20, 23–24, 38
ants, 53–55
Aphrodite, 58–59
Archilochus, 22
Ariphrades, 172
Aristero-phanes, 151
Aristophanes, life of, 9–12, 121. See also individual plays
Aristotle, 1, 14, 18, 57–58, 92, 121, 134, 177, 191; on drama, 27–28, 205; on natural history, 61–64; on slavery, 182–83, 192
Athens, 13, 29–30, 33, 57, 59, 65–66, 68, 102; in Acharnians, 163–68; in Birds, 134, 142; Birds performance (1959), 150–51; coins of, 144; democracy in, 178–83; empire of, 72, 104, 125–26, 132, 142, 182, 188; jury system of, 67–69, 72, 118; in Lysistrata, 108–11; parrhesia in, 156, 159; population of, 181–82
autopoiesis, 202–4
Babylonians (Aristophanes), 105
Baptist, Edward, 184
Barthes, Roland, 3–4
Bastani, Aaron, 122
Benjamin, Walter, 199
Bierl, Anton, 100–102
Big Rock Candy Mountain, 195
Birds (Aristophanes), 1, 2, 15, 118, 121, 126–27, 133–50, 186, 202; reception of, 150–53
Black Lives Matter, xii, xiv, 119, 175, 197, 205–6
Blackmon, Douglas, 184
Bloch, Ernst, 231n23
Bregman, Rutger, 211n7, 231n17
Brennan, Jason, Against Democracy, 175–76
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 175
Burke, Kenneth, 1
Butler, Judith, xii, 23, 25, 49, 118–19, 174
Calame, Claude, 84–85
Carson, Anne, 25
Chanter, Tina, 25
Childs, Dennis, 184
chorus, 2, 15, 79–86; animal, 91–93; in Aristotle, 28, 34–35; comic, 92–93; diminution of, 11, 192–93; Dupont on, 31; satyr, 86–89; tragic, 83–86; Zizek’s, 24
Christianity, 158
cinderology, 130
Claeys, Gregory, and L. T. Sargent, Utopia Reader, 118, 120–22
Clements, Ashley, 144
Cleon, 10, 11, 67–68, 74, 140, 164–68, 169–70
Clouds (Aristophanes), 105–7
Colbert, Stephen, 174
comedy, 211n1 (intro.); costumes of, 69, 93, 134, 136; engagement with tragedy, 18, 39–44; gender in study of, 45–46; Hegel on, 20–21
communal luxury, 16, 191, 204–5
communism, 131, 133, 191, 195, 198, 206
Compton-Engle, Gwendolyn, 136, 233n51
Corbel-Morana, Cécile, 222n45
Corinth, 55–56
crabs, 75
Cyclops (Euripides), 15, 86–89, 115
Dalpatram, Dahyabhai, translation of Wealth, 199–201
dance, 1–2, 29, 57, 75–76, 80–81, 207
Dawson, Doyne, 120
Deleuze, Gilles, xii, 8–9, 48–49, 51, 56, 64–65, 76, 201, 214n22
Demeter, 111–16
democracy, 76, 99, 102–5, 114, 120, 125, 132, 136, 146, 162–63, 167–68, 174; antidemocracy discourses, 175–77, 185–86; as “Demokratia” in Acharnians, 165–66; in Ecclesiazusae, 186–95; Rancière on, 195–97
demos, 173, 178–80, 183, 185, 188, 195; as “Demos” in Knights, 170–72
Derrida, Jacques, 49
Dionysia, Great, 13, 29–30, 33, 84, 173
Dionysus, 13, 22, 32–34, 39–42, 46, 81, 86, 97, 106, 138, 164; in Bacchae, 104–5; theater of, 102–3, 133
Dupont, Florence, 28–32
Dyer-Witheford, Nick, 51
Ecclesiazusae (Women at the Assembly; Aristophanes), 16, 100, 112, 120–21, 125, 186–95, 202
Ehrenreich, Barbara, 1
Elliott, Robert, 122–23
epistocracy, 176
Eupolis, 12
Euripides, 15, 28, 38–39, 42–44, 85, 86–89, 108, 157–58; in Acharnians, 165; Bacchae, 104–5, 158; Hecuba, 103, 115; Hippolytus, 160–61; Ion, 161–62; in Thesmophoriazusae, 112–15, 168–69
Evans, Rhiannon, 120
Fitzgerald, William, ix, 232n30
Fletcher, Angus, 99–100
Foucault, Michel, 237n16; on the author, 3–8, 13–14; on parrhesia, 16, 156–60, 168, 171, 236nn8–10
Freedgood, Elaine, 7
free speech, 155
Frogs (Aristophanes), ix, 18, 39–44, 77, 83, 97, 117, 135, 139, 141
Galen, 157
Gbowee, Leymah, 111
Golden Age, 120
Gramsci, Antonio, 133
Graziosi, Barbara, 214n24
Griffith, Mark, 88–89, 103, 123, 197
Guattari, Félix, ix, xii, 8–9, 48–49, 51, 56, 64–65, 76, 201
Gurd, Sean, 40, 43, 135, 203, 221n33, 229n68, 238n32
Hall, Edith, 45, 83–84, 224n14, 229n66
Hardt, Michael, 47–48
Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten, The Undercommons, 206–7
Harrison, Tony, 243n7
Hegel, G. W. F., 19–21, 23, 49, 97
Heidegger, Martin, 125
Henderson, Jeffrey, xiii, 40, 45, 109, 110, 140, 167, 225n27
Hephaistos, 59
Heraclitus, 57–58
Homer, 53–55, 59, 79–80, 127, 139
Honig, Bonnie, 25
Identity Evropa, xi
insects, 50–65. See also individual insects
isonomia, 55, 71, 76, 136, 181, 191, 195, 197
Jameson, Fredric, 7–8, 124–27, 131–32, 173, 204, 232n40, 243n18
Jim Crow, 177
Kafka, Franz, 64–65, 201, 222n43
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse, and Asha Bandele, When They Call You a Terrorist, 206
Klein, Emily, 202
Knights (Aristophanes), 16, 155, 163, 169–72
koinonia, 179–80, 190–92, 197–98, 242n43
Konstan, David, 98–99, 111, 227n50, 234n63
Kureishi, Hanif, 23–24
Kurke, Leslie, 223n52
Lacan, Jacques, 19, 22, 25, 32
Lakshmi, 199–201
laughter, 17, 34–35, 38, 76, 153, 241n27
Le Guin, Ursula, 126
Lenaia, 163
Leonard, Miriam, 18–19
lice, 57–58
line of flight, 1, 65, 76, 116, 141, 152, 156
Lowe, Lisa, 184
Luhmann, Niklas, 202–3
Lysistrata (Aristophanes), 15, 34, 90, 100, 107–11, 115, 121, 201–2
Ma, John, 182
MacDowell, Douglas, 67–68, 117–18, 230n4
Macherey, Pierre, 4–6, 98, 132
Meleager of Gadara, 60
Milesians, 182
military, 33, 56, 68, 70–72, 92, 116, 150–51, 170–71, 179
More, Thomas, 119–20
Mouffe, Chantal, 205–6
mourning, 37–38
Mynott, Jeremy, 234n65
new materialism, 141
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 19, 21–22
obscenity, xiii
Olson, S. Douglas, 212n5
Otanes, 191
Ovid, 54
Paris Commune, 204–5; as tragedy, 205
Park Chan-wook, 25–26
parrhesia, 15–16, 40, 112, 156, 195; in Euripides, 236n15; Foucault on, 156–60
Peace (Aristophanes), 125, 152
Pericles, xii, 22, 105, 107, 136, 182
Persian Empire, 30, 32, 65, 68, 71–72, 125, 165, 166, 179
Persians (Aeschylus), 36
Pherecrates, 117
Pherecydes, 57
Plato, 5, 51, 59, 60–61, 78, 105, 107, 124, 127–31, 185, 188–92, 204
Platonov, Andrei, 124–27
Platter, Charles, 227n54
Ploutos (Wealth; Aristophanes), 11, 13, 95, 133, 152, 193, 199–201, 202, 242n4
Praxagora, 187–95
Presley, Elvis, ix
pre-Socratics, 125
Preston, Claire, 51–52
Rancière, Jacques, 78, 173, 175, 180–81, 187–88, 195–97, 205, 244n25
Reinhard, Ken, 130
Revermann, Martin, 84
Roman comedy, 2
Roselli, David Kawalko, 89, 102–3, 132–33
Rosen, Ralph, 89–90, 212n7, 225n23
Ross, Kristin, 16, 47–48, 77, 139, 204–5
Sappho, 3, 59, 79, 114–15, 170
satire, 122–23
Saxonhouse, Arlene, 234–35n1
Schironi, Francesca, 151
Scriabin, Alexander, 84
Seaford, Richard, 228n58
Segal, Charles, 38
Shakespeare, William, 2, 19, 35–36, 124
Shamsie, Kamila, 25
Shanks, Michael, 55–57, 221nn27–28
Shorey, Paul, 130
slaves, 36–37, 38, 39, 40, 41–42, 44, 66–68, 70, 74, 77, 81, 85, 86–89, 92, 94, 100, 102–4, 105, 109, 113–16, 117, 161–62, 164, 178, 179–83, 188, 190, 204; in Birds, 140; city of, 132; in Ecclesiazusae, 192; in Knights, 170, 172; in United States, 183–84
Sluiter, Ineke, and Ralph M. Rosen, Free Speech in Classical Antiquity, 234n1
Sobak, Robert, 178–79, 186, 188, 241n28
Socrates, 44, 59, 60, 105–7, 129, 160, 178, 185
Sommerstein, Alan, 123, 173, 231n27, 241n27
Sondheim, Stephen, 45
Sophocles, 17, 20, 22–23, 26, 28, 85, 134, 157
Sparta, 57–58, 81, 111, 115, 164–68, 186
Spartacus, 129
Strattis, 12–13
suture, 2
Suvin, Darko, 230n9
swarm, 14–15, 40, 134, 141, 173; intelligence, x; menace of, 47, 49, 50–51; positive aspects, 47–50; Swarm (film), 52
sympoiesis, 203–4
Teleclides, 122
Thebes, 223n50
Them (film), 51
Thesmophoriazusae (Aristophanes), 100–102, 111–16, 121, 168–69
Tithonos, 58
Tordoff, Robert, 241n26
torture, 184–85
Treu, Martina, 152
utopia, 15, 48, 111, 117–32, 149, 205
Van Steen, Gonda, 150–51
van Zyl Smit, Betine, 141
vases, 55–57, 93, 100, 134, 187
Vasunia, Phiroze, 199–201
Vernant, Jean-Pierre, xii, 95–97
Vidal-Naquet, Pierre, 97–98
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, 40, 148–49
Wallace, Robert W., 173
wasps, 52, 54, 63–64, 109, 167
Wasps (Aristophanes), 65–77, 100, 181
Whitman, Cedric, 89–90
Wilcox, Lauren, 220n11
Williams, Raymond, 19, 125, 133
Wilson, Peter, 4–5, 213n14, 232n43
Zizek, Slavoj, 23–25