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193 acculturation. See assimilation; civic incorporation Acharnians (Aristophanes), 109 Acropolis: Diphilus statue on, 107; goddess Peitho on, 55; “Oath of Plataea” and, 132n3; Oresteia and, 155n17; Persian looting and burning of, 175n197; public debtor list on, 170n86; restoration of, 18; tyrant’s control of, 42 Aegeus (Sophocles), 164n188 Aegyptids. See Egyptians Aeschylus: approach to past, 15; coinage in time of, 153n178; commitment to suppliant tradition, 97; contests of plays and, 10; dowries in time of, 156n35; imagery used by, 134n29; immigration in lifetime of, 3, 17; mythological tradition as constraint on, 148n103; props and gestures as characterizations in, 22–23, 135n43; topographical outlines deployed by, 93–94 —works: Amymone, 73, 159n95; Libation Bearers, 100, 135n43, 173n173; Persians, 93, 134n26, 143n18, 152n152; Seven against Thebes, 10, 96, 135n43, 141n143, 148–49n105; Sons of Aegyptus, 15–16, 60, 73, 131–32n97. See also Agamemnon; Danaids; Danaid trilogy; Eumenides ; Oresteia Aeschylus: The Suppliants (Friis Johansen and Whittle [FJW]): on Argives and marriage, 78–79; on Athenian spending authority, 37; on Bothe’s corrections, 150n128; comprehensiveness of, 10; on corrupted lines in play, 141n138; on Danaids’ appeal for power, 80; on Danaids’ appearance, 135n40; on Danaids’ housing, 113, 115, 116, 174n183; on Danaids’ language, 36, 143n28, 144n39; on Danaus’s bodyguards, 146n72; on Danaus’s characteristics, 43, 119; on Danaus’s coaching, 144n46; foreign groups compared to Danaids in, 68, 70–71; on invasion of Argos, 99; on Io, 162n149; on local history, 168n45; on marriage issue, 62, 154nn2–3, 156n36; on metic terminology, 5; on Pelasgus, 46, 48, 93; on voting, 140n120 Agamemnon (Aeschylus): bird description in, 128n15; citizens vs. ruler in, 149n109; Helen as “booty” in, 137n77; leader reproached in, 100; props and gestures in, 135n43; sacrifice of Iphigenia in, 156n29; Suppliant Index 194 Index Women compared with, 162n141; territorial definitions in, 93; titillating images in, 157n57. See also Oresteia agrarian citizen farmer: census categories of, 103–5; enduring myth of, 109; metic artisans juxtaposed to, 111–12; stereotype of, 87. See also autochthony; land agriculture: centrality of, 110; metics as farmers, 111; yield and acreage in, 103–4. See also agrarian citizen farmer; land Alcibiades, 109, 153n182, 170n87 Amasis (Egyptian king), 24 Amazons: Danaids perceived as, 67–68, 72; gender challenges posed by, 70, 86, 158n67, 158n72 Amymone (Aeschylus), 73, 159n95 Amynomachus, 112 Anaxilas of Naxos, 130n80 Antidotus, 50 Antigone (Sophocles), 61, 81–83, 143n24, 163n156 Aphrodite: Argive worship of, 76, 78–79; Athenian worship of, 140n117; coin images of, 71–72, 153n178; Danaid trial and, 74–76 Apis: Asclepius compared with, 168n47; Pelasgus compared with, 94–96, 108, 120; plague of snakes during rule of, 39–40, 87, 94–95; veneration of, 100 architecture, Athenian self-definition linked to, 6. See also Acropolis; housing archons and archonship, 52, 104, 106–7, 152n156 Areopagus, 52, 70, 122, 123, 132n5, 155n17. See also Eumenides; law courts Argive assembly: fulfillment of promise, 33; leaders held accountable by, 47–48; metoikia granted to Danaids by, 4, 30–32, 34, 101–2; Pelasgus’s placing decision before, 13–14, 29–30, 38, 46–48; Pelasgus ’s speech to, 48–49 Argives: ancestors of, 91; as autochthonous landholders, 108–9; characterization of, 100–102, 171n113; Danaids accompanied by men, 33; as Danaids’ second husbands, 77–78; as owners of housing offered to Danaids, 114; as Pelasgians (and Hellenes), 90; Pelasgus’s fears of accusations by, 47–48, 100, 148n100, 149n107 Argos: Aphrodite cult in, 76, 78–79; Athenian metoikia in relation to, 14–15; Athens compared, summarized , 120–21; bloodshed on plains of, 168n51; citizens’ fears of newcomers’ impact on, 34–35; crisis in, 13–14; Danaids as threat to, 35–40, 58, 65, 98–100, 144n32; Danaids’ entry into city center of, 32–33; Danaids’ residence at, 87–88, 113–19; Danaus as ruler of, 15–16, 44–45; Danaus as threat to, 40, 42–45; defeat of, 15, 46, 160n118; Egyptians’ war with, 96–97, 140n117; public shrine of, 26–27; serpents driven from, 39–40, 87, 94–95, 108; territorial definition of, 87, 92–94; as topos, 15; trade and commerce unimportant in mythical, 25–26; type of threat and cure for, 95–96. See also Apis; Argive assembly; Argives; natives/newcomers/land relationship ; Pelasgus Aristides, 52, 174n185 Aristophanes: use of dialect in, 133–34n22 —works: Acharnians, 109; Birds, 127n10; Wasps, 138n100 Aristophanes of Byzantium, 8 Aristophon, 125 Aristotle: alienable property in time of, 106; on assembly and boule meetings, 132n4; on changing census status, 107; citizen de...