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General Index

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

Amit Shilo
Amit Shilo
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University of California, Santa Barbara

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Beyond Death in the Oresteia
Poetics, Ethics, and Politics
 , pp. 243 - 245
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022
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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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  • Amit Shilo, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Book: Beyond Death in the <i>Oresteia</i>
  • Online publication: 01 September 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108963862.012
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