Index

Acamas, 232

Acastus, 72

Accius, 2

Achilles, 66, 68, 72, 75, 162, 170, 172, 232, 233, 234

Adkins, A. W. H., 6, 162, 233

Aegyptus, 235

Aelian, 2

Aeschylus, xi, xv, 3, 5, 76, 164, 238; Agamemnon, 76; Oresteia, 170; Suppliants, 238

Agamemnon, 7, 67, 68, 69, 74, 164, 172, 173, 232, 234, 236

agon, 235, 238, 240

Ajax (son of Oileus), 67

Ajax (son of Telemon), 162

amoibaion, 164

Anaxagoras, 70

Anaximenes, 70

Andromache, 6, 69

Andromeda, 165

Antigone, 74

antilabé, 165, 167, 240

Aphrodite, 2, 71, 74, 166

Apollo, 67, 75, 166, 232, 234

Ares, 69, 235

Aristophanes: Frogs, 164; Women at the Thesmophoria, 76

Aristotle, xi, 16; Poetics, 2, 76, 241

Artemis, 164, 234

Astyanax, 69

Athena, 2, 67, 69, 71, 74, 163, 166, 234

Atreus, 167

Bacon, Sir Francis, 170

barbarians, 77, 147, 163, 236

Barlow, Shirley A., 6, 163, 235

Bromius. See Dionysos

Cacoyannis, Michael, 2

Cadmus, 68

Calchas, 165

Callisto, 164

Cassandra, 3, 7–8, 67, 68, 232, 236

Castor (one of the Dioscuri), 67, 71, 75, 77, 166, 167, 233

Charites. See Graces

Cicero, 171

Circe, 69

Charybdis, 69

Clytemnestra, 68, 74

Cos (Titan), 164

Croally, N. T., 5

Cronus, 72

Cybele (Great Mother), 166

Cyclops, 69, 71

Cypria (Epic Cycle), 6, 75, 165

Danaus, 235

Dardanelles, Battle of, 232

Dardanus, 70, 72

Deiphobus, 3, 71

Demeter, 166

Demophon, 232

Deo. See Demeter

deus ex machina, 167

Dionysos, 164, 166, 172, 235, 237, 239

Dioscuri. See Castor; Polydeuces

dochmius (meter), xvi, 68, 235

Dodds, E. R., 232

eccyclema, 238

Ennius, 2

Enodia, 164

Eos (Dawn), 70

epiparodos, 164

Eros, 70

Euripides: introduction, xi–xii; life, xiii–xiv; WORKS: Alexandros, 3, 69, 71; Bacchae, 67, 171, 234; Electra, 75; Hypsipyle, 235; Iphigenia at Aulis, 234; Iphigenia in Tauris, 76; Medea, 170; Orestes, 75; Palamedes, 3; Sisyphus, 3

Furies, 69

Galineia, 166

Ganymede, 70

Gilmartin, Kristine, 5

Goethe, 74

Gorgias, 6, 71, 75

Gregory, Justina, 171, 173

Graces, 166

Hades (God), 163, 166, 234

Hamlet, 170

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 74

Hecate, 164

Hector, 69, 71

Helenus, 165, 232

Hephaestus, 68

Hera, 2, 67, 74, 164

Heracles, xi, 70

Hermes, 44, 76, 162, 163

Hermione, 163

Herodotus, 69, 75

Hesione, 70

Hilaeira, 166

Hippodamia, 164

Homer, xi, xii, 66, 70, 74, 162, 163, 164, 240; Iliad, 6, 70, 165, 232, 235; Odyssey, 4, 68, 70, 74, 162, 163, 232, 233

Hospitality (philoxenia, guest-friend), 172, 232, 236

Hyacinthus, 166

Hymen, 7, 68

Ibycus, 172

Iphigenia, 234

Isocrates, 71

isonomia, 233

Jason, 172

Kip, A., 4

kommós, 67, 235, 239

Kovacs, D., 3

Laertes, 69, 232

Laomedon, 66, 70

Leda, 69

Leto, 234

Leucippus, 166

Maia, 163

Marlowe, Christopher, 74

McHardy, Fiona, 170

Medea, 172

Melos, 2, 4

Menelaus, 69, 70, 71, 74, 76, 77, 161, 162, 164, 166, 167, 234

Merope, 235

Merops, 164

Mossman, Janet, 170, 236

Murray, G., 4

Nauplius, 3, 165

Neoptolemus, 67, 68, 72, 232

Nestor, 165

nightingale’s song, 165

Odysseus, 3, 4, 74, 76, 162, 165, 170, 172, 173, 232, 233, 236

Oeax, 3

Oenomaus, 164

Oileus, 67

Oenopion, 235

Orion, 235

Ovid, 172

Palamedes, 165

Pan, 163

Panatheneia, 234

Paris (Alexander), 2, 3, 69, 71, 74, 76, 161–162, 163, 170, 174, 234

parodos, 67, 163, 232, 240

Peleus, 72, 232

Pelops, 164

Penelope, 74

Pentheus, 172

Persephone (Proserpina), 74, 163, 165, 166, 233

Perseus, 165, 166

Philomela, 165, 171

Phoebe, 166

Plato, xi, 233

Plutus, 162

Polonius, 239

Polydeuces (Pollux) (one of the Dioscuri), 71, 77, 163, 166, 167, 233

Polydorus, 171, 172, 173, 174, 231, 232

Polymestor, 171, 174, 232, 233, 235, 236

Polyxena, 171, 172, 174, 232, 233, 234

Poseidon, 4, 5, 7, 66, 67, 232

Priam, 3, 67, 70, 71, 72, 72, 231, 232

Procne, 165, 171

Proteus, 75, 76, 162

revenge, 170–172

rhesis, 71, 165, 235, 240

rhombus, 166

Romans (Bible), 170

Sack of Troy (Epic Cycle), 69, 172, 232

Sappho, 75

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 4–5

Segal, E., 2

Seneca, 2

Shakespeare, 170

Sicilian Invasion, 2, 4, 5

Sidwell, Keith, 4

Simonides, 172

Sirens, 163

skenế, 238

Skusch, O., 74

Solon, 69

Sophists, 70, 233

Sophocles, xi, xv, 5, 6, 76, 238; Antigone, 232; Philoctetes, 68; Polyxena, 172

Stevens, P. T., 76

Stesichorus, 75, 162

stichomythia, 162, 233, 240

suppliancy, 162, 233, 236

Talthybius, 5, 72, 173

Taxi Driver (film), 170

Tantalus, 164

Telamon, 70

Tereus, 165, 171

Teucer, 162, 163

Theoclymenus, 76, 77, 162, 163, 164, 167

Theonoe, 162, 165, 167

Theseus, xi, 232

Thespis, 238

Thetis, 233

Thyestes, 172

Tithonus, 70

Tyndareus, 163, 167, 233, 236

Vellacott, Philip, 5

Virgil, 67, 69, 172

Xenocles, 3

Zeus, 6, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 162, 164, 232, 233, 234