General Index

Amit Shilo

doi:10.1017/9781108963862.012

General Index

Acheron, 70, 72, 75, 181

Achilles, in Hades, 20, 101

Aegisthus, 33, 93, 123, 214–215, 216, 221

aetiology, 223

afterlife

in material culture, 5–6

motivating political action, 112

separating body and soul, 6

Agamemnon, 53, 59, 70, 80, 85, 91–113, 164, 170, 210–211, 215–218, 222–223

as ancestor figure, 119–132, 222–223

as angry spirit, 99

as hero, 96, 119–127

glory for, 93

in Hades, 100–104, 129, 130

in the Odyssey, 101, 162

inhabiting Orestes, 107

mutilation of, 96, 104, 106, 123, 129, 171

raising of, 95–96, 98, 104–108, 109

tomb of, 92, 96, 107, 108, 116, 124–127, 131

ancestors, 5, 63, 93

Apollo, 73, 80, 85, 88–89, 94, 95, 117, 124, 136, 196–198, 200, 201, 202, 206

Areopagus, 24, 211, 224, 226

Argos, 6, 24, 25, 44, 52, 70, 117, 119–122, 126, 127, 132, 134, 136–141, 143, 168, 205, 215, 218, 223

asebeia, 73, 185, 193

Athena, 23, 24, 118, 136, 138–140, 168, 173, 177, 189, 194, 198, 219–227

Athens

and heroes, 115

and Orestes, 116

as army, stratos, 205–208, 224

courts, 225

historical background, 21–26

need for unity, 205, 224

war dead of, 6, 58

Cassandra, 54, 69–90, 165, 181, 214–218, 222

as “bride of Hades,” 80

curse of, 69, 72, 73, 81–83, 88, 181

fate of, 69–71, 74–75, 81–83, 85–90

glory of, 55, 86–88

her death as closure, 82–85, 88–90

kharis, 32, 52, 55, 63, 98, 107

Children of Thyestes, 45, 62, 79, 83, 160, 162, 187, 216, 221

Chorus of Elders, 32, 51–68, 70, 77, 86–87, 122, 165, 170, 182–183, 211, 222

Chorus of Slave Women, 2–3, 61, 91–113, 123, 171, 183–185, 222

Clytemnestra, 29, 53, 61, 66, 70, 85, 93–95, 102, 106, 121–124, 127, 129, 131, 142, 165, 180–181, 187, 196, 197, 199, 207, 215, 218–219, 221

as “mother of Hades,” 72, 82, 165

dream of, 95, 106, 108–109, 131

ghost of. See Ghost of Clytemnestra

curse, 10–11, 58, 59, 61, 69, 72, 73, 81–83, 88, 96, 111, 165, 181, 201, 205, 215, 223, 224, 226

death as closure, 48, 51–54, 56, 69, 82–85, 88, 94, 107

drasanti pathein, 81

eidōlon, 7, 147–148

Electra, 91–113, 122–123, 124–126, 170

Eleusinian Mysteries. See salvation cults

Elpenor, 37

ghost of, 158

eoika, 76–79

Erinyes, 9–11, 23, 59–62, 73, 118, 123, 126, 130, 138, 177–179, 182–191, 194–195, 202–211, 223–226

and Clytemnestra, 145–146, 148–156, 158–159, 163, 166–168, 171–174

and curse, 10–11, 61, 224, 226

and the middle path, 155

before the Oresteia, 9–11

political effects of, 222–225

eris, 207, 223–224

erōs, 41, 206–207, 223–224

Eteocles, 87

ethics

and divine influences, 19

and literature, 19

and the afterlife, 19

definition of, 14

normative, 18–19, 171–175

fate, 34, 53, 55, 60, 69–71, 74–75, 81–83, 85–90

fear, 186, 188, 204

festival of Dionysus, 22–23

Ghost of Clytemnestra, 72, 130, 145–175, 181, 186, 218–219, 222

and blame, dishonor, shame, 149, 155, 166–168, 172

and metatheater, 163, 173, 219

as dream, onar, 148, 151, 154, 156–164

as image, eidōlon, 147–148

ethical claims of, 146, 151, 153, 156, 160, 162, 164, 171–175

psukhē of, 151, 168–171

rhetorical inventiveness of, 145, 146, 164–168, 172–173

wounds of, 149, 158, 160–163, 187

Ghost of Darius, 101, 106, 170, 192

ghosts

in Greek culture, 8

in previous literature, 8

glory, 36, 54–56, 66, 86–88, 89, 93, 98, 99, 222

Hades, 176–204

as double of Zeus, 94–95, 179–181

as euthunos, 166, 191–192

as invisible, 61

as metaphor for death, 8, 82

as realm, 90, 100–104

before the Oresteia, 11

ethical code of, 73, 193–194, 195–198

etymology of, 7

gates of, 83

judgment of, 12–13, 60–61, 83, 176–177, 212, 219–221, 225–226

legal process, 191–193, 200, 202–204

miastōr, 185–186, 198–200, 203, 226

no worship of, 11

polluted, 198–200

punishing the bloodless, 187

realm of, 7–8, 61, 70, 73–75, 83, 164–168, 181

rivers of. See Acheron

vision of, 177–179

Helen, 60, 116

Herald, 52, 128, 214–215

and heroes, 44, 117–119

and silence, 29

closing off the dead, 58

Hermes, 45, 95, 117, 120

heroes, 114–144

cult of, 9, 114–116, 118, 141

in the Agamemnon, 117–119

war dead as, 58

Hesiod, 12

Hymn to Demeter, 13

Iliad, 7, 12, 20, 42, 162, 201

Iphigeneia, 66, 72, 102, 121, 129, 164, 181, 216

Islands of the Blessed, 13

justice, 14, 19, 59, 94, 96, 100, 117, 133, 145, 161, 167, 171, 173, 176–179, 182, 187, 189–190, 209, 214, 219–221, 225–226

as goddess, 10, 96, 100, 120, 183–185, 209

kerdos, 40–42, 49, 86–88, 207, 208, 224

kinship, 193, 196–197

kleos. See glory

kommos, 91–113, 119–122, 170, 214, 217

kratos, 119–121

lex talionis, 191

martyrdom, absence of, 222

Menelaus, 47

Minos, 101

Moira or Moirai, 10, 11, 68, 210, 224

Odysseus, 34, 158, 163

Odyssey, 7, 12, 20, 101

Oedipus, 11, 116

Orestes, 33, 91–113, 115–144, 153, 170, 187–190, 206, 214–215, 222–223

afterlife punishment of, 177–179

and desire for death, 94

as afterlife hero, 115–117, 136–144, 208, 223, 225

as harmful spirit, 116

at Choes, 116

purity of, 116

trial of, 123, 136, 139, 141, 146, 171, 177, 196–198, 202–204, 209, 219, 225

Patroclus, ghost of, 157–158, 162, 166

Persians, Aeschylus, 192

philia, 193

phrēn, 188–189, 195, 205

Pindar, 116

Olympian 2, 13, 220

Plato, 12, 214

poetics

definition of, 15

of multiplicity, 90, 109, 112, 227

of the beyond, 3, 227

politics

and Athenian democracy, 22

definition of, 21

profit. See kerdos

psukhē, 7, 63–64, 66, 151, 157, 158, 162, 168–171

reincarnation, 13

resurrection, 61–62, 65, 95–96, 98, 109

salvation cults, 11–13

Semnai Theai, 23, 226

Simonides, 116

snake motif, 94, 115, 126, 141, 153

soul. See psukhē

stasis, 24, 206, 224

Stesichorus, 116

stratos. See Athens as army

Suppliants, Aeschylus, 179–180

supplication, 23, 191, 200, 226

telos, 209, 226

terma, 208–209

timē, 204

tragedy

and ethics, 21, 156

and politics, 25

Athenian background of, 23

Trojan War, 57–59, 71, 99, 117, 123, 128, 143, 215, 221–222, 223

tyranny, 23, 49, 52, 55–56, 67, 123, 134, 141, 143, 206, 211, 215, 223

victory, 40, 49, 58–59, 128, 140, 144, 207–208, 210–212, 224

voting, 22, 24, 49, 201, 210–211, 225

xenia, 193, 197, 225

Zeus, 11, 62, 66, 68, 94–95, 106, 117, 120, 122, 136, 179–181, 192–193, 197, 210, 224

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