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Please see the discussion in chapter 2 regarding the problem of identifying messengers in the tragic texts. In producing the following list I have largely followed the criteria of de Jong (1991, 179–80): (1) the figure in question is not one of the principal characters, and in fact most often is identified in our manuscripts by function (messenger, servant, shepherd, etc.); (2) the narrative of this figure contains verbs in past tenses; and (3) there is usually dialogue involving the figure preceding the angelia itself. Note, however, that this list is intended principally as a guide to which narratives may with profit be read as engagements with the conventional practice as examined in this study. For this reason, I include figures such as Hyllus in Sophocles’ Trachiniae and the guard in Sophocles’ Antigone, for example. There are in this list also figures identi fied in our manuscripts as messengers who, nonetheless, hardly perform according to conventional expectations (the Phrygian in Euripides’ Orestes, for example). One might also with profit consider the “angelia” of Odysseus at lines 375–436 in Euripides’ satyr-play, Cyclops, as a narrative that is produced against the model of the tragic messenger. I include Rhesos in the list of Euripidean texts only because of its traditonal place in our manuscripts. I intend no judgment about its authenticity. 223 appendix Messengers in Greek Tragedy AESCHYLUS Agamemnon 503–680 Persians 302–514 Septem 375–652 SOPHOCLES Ajax 719–802 Antigone 223–440, 1155–1256, 1278–1316 Electra 660–763 OC 1579–1669 OT 1223–96 Trachiniae 180–199, 229–90, 749–820, 899–946 EURIPIDES Alcestis 141–98 Bacchae 660–774, 1024–1152 Electra 761–858 Hecuba 484–582 Helen 597–621, 1511–1618 Heracl. 784–866 HF 909–1015 Hippolytus 1153–1254 IA 1532–1612 Ion 1106–1228 IT 238–339, 1284–1419 Medea 1121–1230 Orestes 852–956, 1369–1502 Phoen. 1067–1263, 1335–1479 Rhesos 264–316, 729–803 Suppliants 634–730 224 / Appendix ...

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