General Index
Aeneas, ,
agency. See also ‘acting’
and Greimas’ actant,
and implied humanness, , , , ,
and revenge,
and suicide,
Agrippina,
Amphitryon, ,
Apollo,
Arria, wife of Thrasea Paetus
and exemplarity, 151
Ascanius, ,
Astyages
in de Ira, 331
Astyanax
and death,
and suicide,
as actor,
as copy of Hector,
Atreus
and constantia,
and deception,
and decorum, , 84,
and fullness/satisfaction,
and masculinity, ,
and metatheatre, ,
and paternity, , ,
and prior literary models, , ,
and recognition, ,
and self-coherence,
and the maius motif,
and the Stoic sapiens, ,
as actor,
as avenger,
as dramaturg/playwright, ,
linguistic prowess of, , 319
Attalus
teacher of Seneca,
audience
and actors,
and dramatic irony,
and dramaturgy, 210
and Hercules,
and metapoetics,
and metatheatre, ,
and Oedipus, , , , ,
and Phaedra, , 210,
and Thyestes, ,
and Troades,
authorising function of,
external, 33, ,
internal, 33, ,
reception of theatrical performance,
Augustus, , 173,
autonomy. See also ‘agency’, ‘autarkeia’
and fictional beings, , , , ,
and identity formation, 263, ,
and individual supremacy,
and literary belatedness,
and self-harm,
and self-mastery, ,
and Seneca’s views on suicide,
and Senecan isolationism,
and stage performance,
and the Senecan sapiens,
and tyranny, , ,
avenger, the
as instrument, , ,
complicity with the audience,
similarity to actor,
similarity to director/author, 300, ,
behaviour
and acting, 70
and beauty,
and deception, 212
and decorum, , ,
and Homer’s Thersites,
and intertextuality, , ,
and physiognomy,
and Senecan constantia,
continuity of, , , , ,
exemplary patterns of, , ,
inconsistency of,
body, the. See also ‘acting’, ‘physiognomy’
and ‘character portraits’,
and anger,
and interiority, , ,
and Stoic materialism, , ,
and Stoic virtue,
and Vergil’s Dido,
as index of identity,
of Astyanax, ,
of Hippolytus,
of Oedipus, ,
of Phaedra, , ,
of Thyestes, , , , ,
physiognomic and pathagnomic interpretations of,
Brutus, the
of Accius,
caesar
as title, 132
Cato the Younger, , , , , , , 336
character, fictional
and structuralism/poststructuralism,
human qualities of, 3, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
in the novel, 17,
in the twentieth century,
theoretical approaches to,
Chrysippus, 187
Cicero
and autarkeia,
and exemplarity,
and persona theory, , , , ,
and self-aemulatio,
on physical appearance,
on poetry and divination, 255
Cixous, Hélène, 10
Cleanthes, 187,
Clytemnestra
in Seneca’s Agamemnon,
comoedia palliata, 59, ,
cover image
significance of,
Creon
in Medea, ,
in Oedipus, ,
Decii Mures,
decorum
and Atreus, , , 84,
and Cato the Younger,
and Hippolytus,
and Medea,
and Stoic ethics, ,
in Cicero, ,
in Horace, 77,
Demetrius Poliorcetes, , 292
description
and ‘character portraits’,
and ‘running commentaries’, 184
and enactment, 219
in Hercules,
in Phaedra,
in Senecan tragedy, ,
Dido,
dismemberment, ,
dubius
motif in Oedipus, ,
effeminacy,
embodiment, , , , , , 261
emotions. See also ‘face’
and aesthetic appropriateness, 42,
and Hercules, ,
and Oedipus,
and pathognomy,
and performance, 212
and Stoic materialism, ,
and the body, 181, ,
and the theatrical mask, 194
and Thyestes, 65
and typology, 240
Epictetus,
eulogy
and the Roman funeral,
in Troades,
exemplarity
and family models, , , , , , , ,
and metapoetics,
and statuary/sculptures,
and the Roman funeral, ,
and theatrical performance, 128,
self-reflexive forms of, ,
extispicy
in Oedipus, ,
fabula praetexta,
face, the. See also ‘mask’
and anger,
and physiognomy, , 238
and Stoic materialism, ,
and Stoic pathognomy,
as index of emotion, 202,
of Astyanax, ,
of Clytemnestra,
of Euripides’ Phaedra,
of Heathcliff, 238
of Hippolytus, , 228
of Oedipus, , , , ,
of Phaedra, , ,
of the Minotaur, 208
of Thyestes,
family, the. See also ‘exemplarity’, ‘recognition scenes’
and Atreus,
and Hippolytus,
and paternity, ,
and reunion, , , 319
as source of emulation, , ,
in Euripides’ Heracles,
in Hercules, ,
father–son relationships, , 111, , , , , , ,
formalism
and theories of fictional character,
freedom
in Senecan Stoicism,
overlap between political and personal, , ,
suicide as source of,
friendship
in Senecan Stoicism,
genealogy
and Astyanax’s relationship to Hector,
and Atreus’ revenge,
and exemplarity, , ,
and poetic imitation, , ,
Greimas, Algirdas, 11,
Hamlet,
Harpagus
in de Ira, 331
Heathcliff,
Hector
as role model for Astyanax, , ,
in the Aeneid,
ransom of,
Hercules
and family relationships,
and Stoicism,
and suicide,
as fictional character, 163,
in Troades,
madness of, ,
self-reflexive exemplarity of,
similarity to Lycus,
Hippolytus
and anger, ,
and autarkeia,
and autonomy, ,
and Stoic ethics, ,
and women,
as fictional construct, ,
beauty of, ,
body of,
face of,
implied human qualities of, ,
in Euripides,
sword of,
violence against Phaedra, 213
Homer, 116, ,
identity
and behavioural imitation, ,
and corporeality, , ,
and fragmented subjectivity,
and freedom/self-determination, ,
and habitual conduct, 23, , ,
and metatheatre, , , , 163, , ,
and self-knowledge,
and Stoic decorum, ,
and Stoic persona theory, , ,
as selfsameness, 23
in context of family relationships, , , , , ,
imago / imagines, ,
individuality
and ‘character portraits’, 237
and twentieth-century literary theory,
and corporeal integrity, 278
and interiority, , 237,
and self-conferred morality, ,
of Seneca’s characters, 8
versus the collective, 95,
intertextuality. See also ‘metatheatre’
and exemplarity, , , ,
and Tacitean death scenes,
in Senecan scholarship, 4
in Thyestes, ,
isolation
and Atreus, ,
and Hercules,
and Hippolytus,
and Medea,
and self-aemulatio,
and the Senecan sapiens, 267,
Jane Eyre, 3
Jason, , , , , 290, ,
Juno, , , 338
Jupiter
and the sapiens,
in Hercules,
in Plautus’ Amphitruo, ,
Knights, Lionel, 15
maius
motif in Thyestes,
masculinity
in Thyestes, ,
Medea
and autarkeia, 60,
and decorum,
and isolation,
and recognition, , ,
and revenge,
and self-coherence,
and self-division,
and self-naming,
and Stoic ‘indifferents’, 290
and the Stoic sapiens, , ,
as author/playwright,
messenger speeches, 185,
Minotaur, the,
names
significance of in fiction, 12
significance of in Roman exemplarity, , 151
significance of in Senecan prose,
novel, the, ,
Oedipus
and self-harm,
and the dubius motif, ,
face of, , , , ,
resemblance to a text,
Paulina, wife of Seneca
and exemplarity, 151
person schema,
persona
in Stoic ethics, 6, , , , ,
Petronius ‘Arbiter’,
Phaedra
and deception,
and Euripides’ Phaedra,
and interiority, ,
and veiling,
and Vergil’s Dido,
experience of love, , , 222
face of, , ,
Philomela, , 310,
physiognomy
and Cleanthes,
and Homer’s Thersites,
and Polemon, , 199
and revelation,
and Stoic materialism,
and the Latin Physiognomia, 201
and the pseudo-Aristotelian Physiognomica,
in Seneca, ,
in the eighteenth/nineteenth-century novel,
versus pathognomy,
Pliny the Younger,
Priam, ,
Procne, , 310,
Propp, Vladimir,
psychologising
in literary theories of character, 13
psychology
and material realities, , 261
and the body,
in the eighteenth/nineteenth-century novel,
of characters in the novel, 12
Pythia, the,
repetition
and Atreus, 322
and exemplarity,
and structure of Troades,
and the dynamics of revenge,
as motif in Medea, ,
of events in Hercules,
revenge
and Atreus,
and focalisation,
and intertextuality,
and Medea,
and oppression/powerlessness, 307,
and recompense/equilibrium, , ,
and Theseus,
as ‘satisfaction’,
as source of autonomy,
sapiens, the
and contingency,
and divinity,
and immovability,
and invulnerability,
and self-sufficiency,
as monarch,
isolation of, 267,
versus the tyrant,
satis
motif in Thyestes,
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, 7
Scipio Aemilianus, 105
Scipio Africanus, 105
self-aemulatio, ,
Seneca
and physiognomy, ,
and reflexive language,
and slaves/slavery,
and writing for stage performance,
as exemplum,
death scene in Tacitus,
on public life,
Socrates
death of,
spectatorship, , ,
Sphinx, the
in Oedipus, , 340
statues, , 132
Stoicism
and Atreus, ,
and constantia, , ,
and decorum, , , , 284
and emotions / passions, , 88, ,
and friendship,
and Hercules, 162
and Hippolytus, ,
and isolation,
and kingship,
and Medea, ,
and persona theory, 6, , ,
and physiognomy,
and self-fashioning, 36
and Seneca’s suicide,
and Senecan ideas of suicide, , 341
and sympatheia, 248
and the Cynics, 267
and the Senecan retreat from public life,
and theatrical analogies, 37, , ,
structuralism
and theories of fictional character, ,
Tacitus
death scenes in the Annals,
Tereus, , 310,
Thersites
and ‘character portraits’,
Theseus
as physiognomic interpreter,
in Euripides’ Heracles,
in Euripides’ Hippolytus, 205
in Hercules, 157
in Phaedra, , , ,
reassembles Hippolytus,
Thrasea Paetus
suicide of,
Thyestes
and metatheatre,
and pregnancy,
and suicide,
as actor,
changeability of,
Tiresias
in Oedipus, , 254,
Tomashevsky, Boris, 11
Trajan,
tyrants/tyranny, , , , , , , , 332,
Ulysses
in Troades, , 132,
veil
of Phaedra, 209,
Vergil, , , ,
Wuthering Heights,
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