Voices at Work: Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece

Index

Index abduction, 56–57, 74–76, 140, 232n24 abundance, 120, 125, 154, 206, 211 Acharnians (Aristophanes), 239n47 Achilles, 24, 40, 234n6; shield of, 117–23, 130–32, 238n29 action: exhortation to, 93, 146–49, 160, 203, 209–18; and speech, 93–95, 145, 149, 151 Adonis, 238n35, 245n20 Advice to Bride and Groom (Plutarch), 175 Aelian, 172, 246n50 Aeschylus, 99, 239n38, 239n46 Afghanistan, 72 Africa, 138 Agave, 188 age, 108, 152, 188, 233n58, 237n11 agricultural songs, 135, 142–43, 156–57, 177–80, 251n20; grinding songs, 2, 8, 18, 134, 144–53, 220; harvesting songs, 9, 115–32, 201–18, 239n43, 253n44; oulos, 8, 243nn61–62; threshing songs, 153–55, 189–90; vintage songs, 115–32, 239n43. See also Linos song; Lityerses song agricultural work, 1, 48, 155, 201, 204, 250n6, 252n36; and dance, 117–19, 121–22, 138; and gender, 12, 14, 224n30; grape harvesting, 119–30, 140–41, 143–44; and ritual, 8, 177–80 Ahab’s Wife; or, The Star-Gazer (Naslund), 21 Aithre, 25 Alcaeus, 242n32 Alcandre, 31–32 Alcinous, 61, 233n55 Alcippe, 31–32 Alcmene, 161 alētis (women’s song), 135 Alētris, 144 Alexiou, Margaret, 129, 167, 192 Amphictyons (Telecleides), 251n20 Amphimaros, 129 Anacreon, 94, 113–16, 166 Anchises, 57, 250n4 Andromache, 12, 28, 78–84, 88, 95, 185, 225n19, 234n2, 234n6 Andromeda, 55 Anthesteria (feast), 172–73, 247n54 Anthologia Palatina, 251n28 antiphony, 102, 136, 156–57, 165, 167 Aphrodite, 9, 57, 170, 186–87, 245n20, 248n8, 250n4; in Homer, 28–30, 35–36, 83, 226n36; and young girls, 173–75, 188–89 apokinos (dance), 137–38 Apollo, 64–65, 76, 118, 129–31, 252n30 Apollonius Rhodius, 154, 251n28 Arachne, 5 Arbeit und Rhythmus (Bücher), 13 Archilochus, 110–13, 237n3, 237n14, 238n20 Arendt, Hannah, 10 Arete, 42, 45, 55, 61, 70–71, 229n76 Aretousa, 187, 248n10 Argonautica (Apollonius Rhodius), 154, 251n28 Argos, 118, 129, 252n30 Aristarchus, 118 Aristophanes, 2, 14, 112, 135, 209–10, 250n31, 251n20. See also Peace Aristotle, 135 Arsenius, 109–10 292 Index Burkert, W., 241n27 Byzantine literature, 189, 215–16, 237n3 Calame, Claude, 33, 176, 244n13, 245n33 Callimachus, 209–11, 212, 240n62, 252n30 Calypso, 2, 45–51, 73, 190, 229n83, 230n84, 230n87, 230n91 Cambitoglou, A., 247n51 Cambridge school, 224n38, 241n26 captivity, 7, 82, 88 Caraveli, Anna, 44, 229n81 Carson, Anne, 224n39 Cassandra, 90 Catalogue of Women (Hesiod), 233n56 Celeus, 8, 30, 107, 109–10, 196 chelichelone. See tortoise game children, 220, 244n1, 245n14; songs of, 8–9, 136, 160–81. See also games, children’s; lullabies Chloe, 140–43 Choeroboscus, 107–8, 110, 237n4 choes, festival of the, 172–74, 247n51 choral lyric poetry, 52–67, 100, 136, 225n9, 226n29, 226n35, 236n48 choruses, female, 60–61, 66, 90, 96, 99–101, 103, 155, 167–68, 176, 199. See also under performances Circe, 2, 45–51, 73, 229n83, 230n84, 230n90, 230n95, 230n101, 232n37 Clader, L. L., 26 Clausen, W. V., 250n8 clothing, 26, 31, 39, 42–43, 83–84, 98, 102–5, 228n64, 234n59; for Athena, 85–87, 89, 96, 103, 144, 235n14, 235n26; and change, 99–100, 104, 236n47; of Odysseus, 43, 71, 229n75; Sidonian robes, 86–87, 234n10, 235n17; washing of, 52, 54–56, 65–67, 74–75, 113–15, 231n14 Clouds (Aristophanes), 2 Clymene, 25 Clytemnestra, 48, 98 Commentary (Eustathius), 152 communication, 2, 39, 44, 76, 136–37, 144 community, 8, 44, 141, 164–68, 180, 253n44 companionship, 204, 207–8 art, ancient Greek, 67–68, 167, 172–74, 182–84, 247n61; female work in, 3, 14, 16, 52, 67, 88, 224n37 Artemis, 2, 6, 31–32, 35–36, 57–62, 64–65, 75, 164, 199, 232n37 Arthur, Marilyn B., 167, 227n44 Athamanians, 14 Athena, 5, 69–70, 199, 229n75, 233nn56–57, 234n10; clothing for, 85–87, 89, 96, 103, 144, 235n14, 235n26; and Nausicaa, 54–55, 58, 65, 67–68 Athenaeus, 23, 133–39, 153–54, 209, 212–14, 242n40, 243n62, 251n20 Athens, 85–86, 89, 236n54 Atreus, 181 audience, 7, 17, 21–22, 36, 65, 131–32, 139, 180 Austin, J. L., 94 Austin, Norman, 26 authority, 5–6, 33–42, 70–71, 74, 158–59, 221, 227n50, 228n61, 228n63, 229n75; and age, 108, 152, 188, 233n58, 237n11; and female work, 6, 26, 28–30, 33, 37–38, 40–41, 71, 84, 109–10; and first-person narration, 77, 171; and imperative, 162–63 Aztec culture, 88 Bacchae (Euripides), 188–89 Bacchylides, 147, 148–49 Ballad, 9, 192, 193, 196, 197, 198, 199. See also paralogē Barber, E.J.W., 223n9 Barber, Karin, 18...