Tragedy Offstage: Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens

Subject Index

Subject Index A Aeschylus, 11, 42, 71, 76, 79–80, 146, 180, 189n1 age-mates, 6, 59 Alexander the Great, 108, 109–110, 111–114, 142–143, 205n116 anêr and anthrôpos, 134–135 anger and abuse, 33, 62, 83, 90, 136–138, 152 apo- compounds, 36–37, 126–127 Apollodorus, 18, 54–65, 84, 100, 149, 151 aporia, 122–124, 127, 169 apprehension of criminals, 80, 100 aretê, 13 Arginusae, battle of, 14, 114, 143–144, 150 Aristophanes, 23, 52, 87, 152, 159, 196n22, 204n103, 208n66 Aristotle basanos in, 160, 209n72 everyday pity in, 4, 10, 20, 34, 193n67 friendship in, 5–6, 61, 178–179, 192n56 limited usefulness of, 4–6 ransom in, 48, 51 slavery in, 151–152, 206n30 tragic pity and katharsis in, 2, 180 B barbarians, 136, 151, 159 basanos, 146–173, 180 criticism of, 160–161 praise of, 159–160, 209n70 and proklêsis, 157–158, 162, 163–164, 166–171 burial of war dead, 107, 121, 143–144 bystander intervention, 18–19, 76–103 and Athenian law, 79–82 table of instances, 77 in tragedy, 76, 79–80 in the United States, 80, 97–98, 196n8 C captivity in literature, 42–43 rescue or escape from, 73–74, 196n17 See also ransom character assassination in tale of Cittus, 168–170 in tale of half-dead soldier, 133–136 in tale of moneylender’s slave, 165 in tale of Theodotus, 91–93 chattel slavery, 149–153, 174 Cittus, 166–171 civic ideology of Athens, 3, 7, 13–14, 93, 147, 149, 172, 175, 179–181, 183n5, 210n2, 210n3 compassion, 3, 7–8, 19, 135, 138, 140–143, 179–181, 183n1. See also pity concentric rings of moral obligation, 9–10, 51–53, 61, 74, 102, 173, 176–178, 184n13 228 tragedy offstage Conon, 93–97 courtroom, 3, 6, 29–30, 62, 65, 101, 158 credit and lending, 68–69, 163 crime, 79–88, 99–103 Croesus, 2, 15–16 crowds, 83, 90, 93, 98–103, 204n105 Cyrus the Great, 14, 15–16, 28, 185n28 D daylight activities, 83 departure from Syracuse, 117–130 dikaiosunê, 13, 35 dikastai, 29–30, 55, 59, 61, 62–65, 81, 87, 96, 98, 101, 158, 163–166, 168–169, 176 discourse. See moral rhetoric domestic architecture, 24–27 E eleos and cognates, 12–14, 34–35, 64–65, 118, 123, 140, 146, 162, 175, 183n1, 210n2, 210n3 emotion biological underpinnings of, 13 culture and, 13, 17 study of, 3–5, 13, 17, 181 emotional needs of the sick, 33–41 empathy, 12, 15–16, 34, 135, 138–141, 147, 152–153, 166, 171–173 enmity, 10, 58, 62–63, 74 epigraphic evidence, 35, 43–45, 100, 186n9 epimeleia, 35–39 erotic passion, 88, 91–93, 102 ethos of Athens, 3, 172, 178–181 in forensic speeches, 30, 38, 59, 64, 88, 91–92, 95–96, 133, 135–136, 140–141, 164–165 eunoia, 35–39, 168 Euripides, 11–12, 21, 28, 72, 114, 115, 155, 180 expediency, 3, 10, 20 F face-to-face society, 87, 195n94 family, Greek instability of, 39–41, 74 role in nursing, 18, 27–30 role in ransoming, 57–58, 65–75 farmsteads, 60, 85, 87 friends, 5–6, 18–19, 40–41, 51, 58–62, 64, 67, 73–75, 102, 145, 146–147, 171, 176– 178, 192n56. See also philoi and philia funeral rites, 71–72 G generosity excessive, 75 impartial, 52–53, 63–65 H healing, 22–24, 27–30 helping behavior, 3–4, 8–10, 16, 180–181 Herodotus, pity in, 14, 65 Hippocratic treatises, 24, 26, 28, 29, 32, 109–110, 199n16 historiography, 6–8, 180, 185n25 and bystander intervention, 76–78 and home nursing, 22–23 philanthrôpia in, 14 pity in, 7, 63–64, 65 and ransom, 43–45 and slave torture, 147–149 and transport of soldiers, 104–108 Homer corpse of Hector in, 13–14, 42–43, 65, 75, 107, 180 importance of, 2, 7 Penelope in, 71 pity in, 13–14 ransom in, 42–43, 47, 65, 75 unmixed evil in, 5 war wounds in, 108, 109, 198n4, 198n9 hospitals, lack of, 4, 23–25 households, 18, 22, 28, 149–150, 152–153, 157, 172, 175. See also oikos hubris, 64, 85, 89, 92–93, 94, 96, 103, 115, 130, 132, 135, 140, 151 humane ideals, 3, 13–16, 141–143, 147, subject index 229 171–173, 175–176, 179–181, 183n5...