City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire

General Index

201 Acharnians (Aristophanes), 25–26 Adrastus, 10, 22, 27, 102–104 Aeschylus. See Agamemnon; Choephori; Eleusinioi; Eumenides; Oresteia; Persians ; Suppliant Women Agamemnon (Aeschylus): Furies in, 54, 56; kin murders in, 45; perversion of sacrificial norms, 49; and setting of, 43–44 Aethra, 14, 103–104, 157n27, 161n96, 163n122, 165n150 Agamemnon, 6, 41, 43–45, 56 Alcmene, 8, 92, 100, 102, 156n11, 157n35, 164n144 ally/allies of Athens, 21, 23, 68–69, 98; Heracles’ daughter as ideal, 73–74, 99; and suppliants, comparable to, 16–18, 29, 89. See also tribute Antigone, 105, 108, 110, 123, 168n26 Apollo, 35, 44–46, 49–53, 50, 54–56 Apollonius Rhodius, 49, 52 Archidamian War, 89, 102 Areopagus, 33–34, 62 Arginusae, battle at, 122, 170n60 Argive alliance, 38–40; historical context, 31–32, 38; and Orestes, 35–38 Argos: Athens, contrast with, 2, 14–16, 78–79, 82–83; and Sparta, 41–44 Aristophanes, 4, 25–26, 138n101, 166n1 Aristotle, 81, 138n97 asylum, 81–85, 88, 105 Athena, 5–6, 37, 61, 64–65, 34, 36–37, 44, 110 Athenian Assembly: decrees, 68–69; restricts allies’ independence, 70; supplication in, 12–13, 80–84 Athenian hegemonic ideology, 17–24; autochthony, 4, 98, 131, 164n138; Argos, comparison with, 14–16; consent , 26–28, 100; and democracy, 69–71, 102–104, 107, 114; evolution of, 27, 103, 106–107, 117–119; in funeral oratory, 22–26; Heracles’ daughter’s role in, 97–100; Pericles, 6, 19–20; protecting the weak, 7, 17, 22, 34, 84–87, 106, 119; in suppliant plays, 28–30, 38; theme of benevolence and piety, 4–5, 7, 105–106, 117, 119, 123– 124; and tyranny, opposite of, 15–16, 75–79, 84, 122–126 Athenian imperialism: and allies, use of force against, 21, 23, 68–69; development of, 67–71; freedom as power, 75–80; in later plays, 5–6; in suppliant plays, 16–19. See also historical context of plays Athens: freedom depends on power, 75–80, 84; panegyric/praise of, 1–3, 6–7, 16–30, 129–131; as protector of polluted, 44, 53–54, 110–111, 139n112; and Sparta, 32, 63, 78, 101; and Thebes, 102, 119–120, 122–126. See also Delian League Atreus, 45, 56, 60, 83, 147n76, 148nn77 audience for plays, 8, 49, 63–64, 85–86, 90, 114–115; composition, 4, 25–26 autochthony, 4, 98, 131, 164n138 GENERAL INDEx CITY of SUPPLIANTS 202 Bakewell, Geoff, 16 blood guilt, 44, 51, 142n22. See also pollution blood vengeance, 44–46, 48–50, 56–59, 149n86 burial, and heroization, 121 Burian, Peter, 11, 79 Burkert, Walter, 113 Carter, David, 3–4 Cassandra, 8, 56 Chalcis decree, 69 Chaniotis, Angelos, 82 Children of Heracles (Euripides): Argos in, 54, 78–79; Athenian hegemony and democracy, 4–5, 69–70, 75; daughter’s sacrifice, 87–91; debate, 80–84; freedom as sovereignty, 75–80; gender and sacrifice, 91–94; as political play, 74–75; supplication, 80–84 Choephori (Aeschylus), 45–48; blood vengeance in, 45–46, 149n86; kinmurders , 148n83, 155n17; role of Furies in, 57; treatment of pollution in, 45–46, 57, 147n75, 148n77 chorus: in Aeschylus’ Eumenides, 47–48, 57; in Euripides’ Children of Heracles, 76, 81, 83, 86; in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, 106–107, 109–114, 120, 168nn23–26 Chryses, 9 chthonic gods, 55–59 Cimon, 32, 67–68, 147n71 Circe, 49 citizenship/naturalization, 19, 107, 113–114; and Oedipus, 107, 114–116 class: disparity between foreigners and citizens, 19–21, 24–26, 94–106; status of women, 91–94 Cleinias’ decree, 69, 90–91 Cleon, 23, 84, 102, 136n80, 161n96 cleruchies, 68, 138n98 Clytemnestra, 45–48, 50, 57, 147–148n77, 148n83 “Coinage” Decree, 69 Colonus, grove of, 106–110, 117, 122 consent: manufacturing, 106; negotiation, 26–28, 70 Creon, 79, 112, 118–120, 122–125 Croesus, 42–43, 63 cult-heroes, 1, 27, 39–40; Eurystheus, 39–40, 74, 100–102; Furies/Erinyes, 53–54, 60–61, 64–65; and Panhellenic myth, 41–42; Oedipus, 27, 107, 114– 115, 120–123; Orestes, 39–42 Danaus, 13, 14 decrees, Athenian, 13, 68–69, 81, 137n87, 154n11 Delian League, 2, 21, 67–71, 90, 137nn85, 89, 142–143n25, 143n28 democracy, 34, 70, 102–103, 106, 117–118, 139n108; and allies, relation with, 70– 71, 130–131; and Areopagus, 4, 141n16; and debate, 80–84; and empire, 7, 68– 69, 106; kings in tragedy, 11, 13, 70, 75, 103–104, 157n37; Mytilenaean debate, 23, 76, 84, 102–103; supplication and, 13 Demophon, 73, 76, 77–78, 79...