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Narrative and the Messenger in Aeschylus' Persians

James Barrett

American Journal of Philology. (Winter, 1995) pp. 539-557

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[783 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[324 words] euripides, play, sophocles, aeschylus, plays, tragedy, chorus, drama, dramatic, tragic, ajax, prometheus, greek_tragedy, scene, stage, audience, euripidean, action, antigone, lines, tragedies, medea, oedipus, actor, poet, choral, bacchae, electra, characters, actors

[274 words] speech, words, himself, speaker, audience, lines, situation, scene, action, address, makes, line, speak, asks, addressed, response, begins, take, effect, immediately, reply, comes, your, speaking, speaks, moment, advice, beginning, passage, questions

[138 words] homer, homeric, iliad, odyssey, epic, poet, poems, oral, poetry, tradition, parry, poets, poem, similes, traditional, composition, hesiod, formulaic, formula, heroic, poetic, lord, epics, simile, language, oral_poetry, singer, verse, narrative, formulas

[124 words] orestes, agamemnon, chorus, oedipus, play, electra, aeschylus, clytemnestra, antigone, sophocles, creon, scene, euripides, apollo, aegisthus, cassandra, murder, audience, action, eteocles, lines, oresteia, iphigenia, troy, sacrifice, curse, hecuba, eumenides, thebes, city

[100 words] berkeley, trans, essays, leiden, commentary, los_angeles, ithaca, mass, baltimore, early, politics, ancient_greece, myth, tapa, tradition, clarendon_press, amsterdam, introduction, vols, phoenix, greece, diss, ann_arbor, stuttgart, origins, reading, arethusa, review, routledge, rhetoric

[89 words] himself, true, truth, matter, criticism, merely, facts, really, real, passage, attempt, false, claim, accept, words, knowledge, belief, enough, regard, prove, makes, error, simply, wrong, statements, critics, surely, actually, serious, take

[75 words] eyes, thou, your, night, earth, away, heart, thee, blood, forth, love, simile, sleep, beauty, tears, mind, poet, lines, heaven, hands, comes, words, gods, song, water, face, sound, passage, dark, sweet

[62 words] narrator, narrative, philodemus, voice, ekphrasis, poem, reading, ecphrasis, text, discourse, speech, audience, visual, poet, reader, poetry, shield, language, painting, apostrophe, neoptolemus, poiesis, deixis, poetic, poems, representation, crates, story, characters, viewer

[59 words] herodotus, persian, xerxes, darius, cyrus, persians, king, croesus, greeks, ctesias, story, persia, gyges, herodotos, achaemenid, persepolis, cambyses, aristagoras, histiaeus, sardis, histories, egypt, histiaios, hecataeus, lydian, herodotean, narrative, babylon, artaxerxes, ionian

[46 words] gods, zeus, divine, hesiod, prometheus, earth, hera, apollo, power, justice, prayer, mortal, hermes, athena, mortals, theogony, heaven, muses, goddess, myth, poseidon, poet, olympus, aphrodite, homer, fate, birth, divinity, dike, passage

[45 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[41 words] hermes, diss, wilamowitz, studien, philologus, untersuchungen, stuttgart, literatur, gottingen, commentary, edition, heidelberg, philol, review, gnomon, dichtung, darmstadt, suppl, tapa, fraenkel, jaeger, repr, wiesbaden, norden, schmid, wilamowitz-moellendorff, amsterdam, dissertation, philosophie, uber

[37 words] narrative, events, chapter, section, books, beginning, story, sections, sequence, chapters, begins, follows, passage, composition, theme, structure, digression, followed, lines, opening, introduction, chronological, immediately, treatment, event, division, preceding, arrangement, passages, action

[36 words] lines, line, words, verse, repetition, word, verses, phrase, position, pattern, beginning, structure, formula, sentence, repeated, effect, phrases, emphasis, metrical, poem, adjective, sense, verbal, clause, caesura, arrangement, passage, verb, preceding, formulae

[29 words] atti, nella, florence, naples, nell, degli, sulla, italia, romano, alla, turin, archeologia, greca, istituto, napoli, onore, ricerche, pisa, bologna, antichita, italian, antico, classica, bari, mondo, sull, cultura, argues, secolo, greco

[29 words] story, king, himself, told, tale, night, city, sent, house, killed, away, having, whom, father, took, home, stories, wife, his_father, version, woman, child, return, dream, his_wife, dead, gave, children, mother, hands

[26 words] odysseus, odyssey, homer, penelope, telemachus, suitors, homeric, ithaca, poet, iliad, athena, return, hero, story, circe, eumaeus, menelaus, poem, home, cyclops, phaeacians, polyphemus, beggar, nestor, nausicaa, agamemnon, scene, calypso, epic, athene

[26 words] analysis, sources, understanding, individual, information, context, questions, literary, texts, development, role, provide, structure, aspects, early, basic, complex, traditional, range, provides, data, function, significant, patterns, process, useful, pattern, attempt, limited, techniques

[25 words] tortarius, ovaos, duov, enricv, sincopus, ihperator, oviaos, plundering, baneful, gataker, doghunts, ihper, nicocl

[24 words] aristotle, tragedy, poetics, tragic, poetry, plot, pity, comedy, drama, action, poet, imitation, fear, characters, emotions, mimesis, catharsis, dramatic, definition, moral, aristotelian, audience, else, chapter, bywater, pleasure, hamartia, pathos, play, poets

[23 words] pour, mais, nous, comme, cette, avec, sont, meme, deux, fait, bien, etre, aussi, elle, entre, tout, dont, leur, sans, autre, peut, etait, donc, avait, voir, autres, apres, ainsi, encore, chez

[22 words] achilles, iliad, hector, agamemnon, homer, troy, ajax, odysseus, patroclus, priam, homeric, diomedes, trojans, greeks, nestor, battle, hero, trojan, heroes, thetis, poet, menelaus, zeus, achilleus, epic, warrior, achaeans, heroic, fight, hektor

[22 words] true, passage, words, merely, matter, position, suppose, regard, name, enough, natural, mention, difficulty, period, prove, having, regarded, himself, except, facts, really, naturally, supposed, definite, makes, assumed, alone, correct, actually, referred

[22 words] xocl, linnaeus, xail, xcai, xoct, xaci, syst, theseus, systema, trittyen, xacl, xata, giraldi, xcti, barbari, danai, nymphae, xaxov, aristot, gessner, hederich, heller, muncker, amoen, naturae, ryss, xcal, clipeo, hagberg, hoefnagel

[20 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[18 words] road, river, along, route, miles, valley, plain, hill, town, distance, land, mountain, across, coast, village, city, mountains, hills, roads, pass, line, region, bridge, island, southern, water, lake, lies, ground, places

[18 words] vacat, vp2ald, archephon, goby, evxos, tokos, hill, poeticisms, peridromos, callimedon

[18 words] passage, sense, text, meaning, sentence, words, word, reading, phrase, line, mean, translation, clause, context, lines, follows, editors, refer, difficulty, verb, makes, emendation, take, refers, preceding, expression, passages, correct, understood, translates

[17 words] source, text, sources, passage, information, works, passages, written, version, fragments, name, authors, quoted, tradition, literary, mention, fragment, extant, books, himself, wrote, early, writers, title, commentary, quotations, texts, derived, knowledge, collection

[16 words] verb, genitive, plural, accusative, noun, dative, verbs, singular, forms, adjective, construction, nouns, ablative, passive, latin, adjectives, nominative, participle, usage, object, meaning, active, infinitive, uses, words, preposition, neuter, pronoun, sentence, phrase

[15 words] ship, ships, fleet, boat, sail, voyage, harbor, wind, shore, sailing, oars, port, storm, vessels, sailors, harbour, vessel, boats, coast, trireme, hull, triremes, casson, naval, winds, water, cargo, wreck, shipwreck, stern

[14 words] tattooing, branding, stigma, tattooed, tattoos, stop, incl, tattoo, stigmata, letr, penal, needles

[12 words] athens, athenian, athenians, thucydides, fleet, ships, persian, battle, herodotus, persians, salamis, spartans, greeks, thuc, spartan, sparta, marathon, samos, diodorus, aegina, allies, themistocles, revolt, sent, naval, island, persia, chios, tissaphernes, victory

[11 words] your, something, take, things, thing, enough, done, really, anything, himself, look, mind, mean, away, going, want, keep, matter, sort, every, kind, doing, else, tell, suppose, having, ever, words, help, understand

[11 words] pindar, poet, victory, poem, praise, pythian, victor, odes, pyth, bacchylides, song, pindaric, olympian, myth, hieron, epinician, nemean, simonides, poetry, lines, paean, passage, farnell, cyrene, bundy, apollo, wilamowitz, bowra, aegina, victories

[10 words] army, city, military, took, troops, himself, control, power, events, position, situation, policy, force, sent, return, revolt, attack, victory, peace, forces, defeat, action, soon, attempt, success, battle, enemy, became, command, remained

[9 words] soph, sense, jebb, aeschylus, aesch, euripides, sophocles, text, line, reading, fraenkel, hermann, wilamowitz, wecklein, diggle, passage, murray, word, hipp, editors, codd, page, emendation, headlam, conjecture, pearson, verse, dawe, paley, andr

[9 words] browning, balaustion, apology, nonnus, sayana, fifine, escc, paracelsus, pauline, vita, keydell, sordello, fair, imperante, accidit, parc, pippa, augusto, audacht, comoed, cunedda, natus, alciphron, keal, latrent, quotes, terpsicles, apprehension, atha, gerard

[8 words] languages, eliot, proceedings, algonkin, indian, language, dialects, creole, cree, english, root, names, canada, dialect, finger, gosala, vira, verb, mass, chip, iroquois, grammar, trumbull, indians, numerals, prefix, dakota, fingers, thumb, massachusetts

[8 words] kcai, tcov, icai, passage, kata, kati, kaci, icat, kcti, kait, nepi, kcat, oiov, tflv, epyov, pipilo, ckai, touto, xprjv, xpctv, xprv, otov, tiva, touq, xpcv, kcli, eoti, votto, iepov, tilv

[7 words] himself, young, ever, whom, every, your, days, things, mind, wrote, spirit, enough, something, true, famous, friend, words, youth, country, poet, knew, high, become, love, take, poor, name, story, master, living

[7 words] heracles, herakles, lion, hero, theseus, perseus, serpent, bull, deianeira, snake, centaur, hercules, boar, gorgon, medusa, snakes, centaurs, monster, deianira, shield, andromeda, giant, hydra, myth, amphitryon, hyllus, club, eurystheus, lions, geryon

[7 words] animals, animal, birds, fish, bird, dogs, sheep, species, eagle, hunting, fable, goat, lion, wild, beasts, goats, pliny, wolf, cattle, swallow, creatures, hunt, deer, bones, lions, cock, young, aristotle, nightingale, simile

[6 words] language, words, effect, literary, poet, expression, tone, contrast, speech, passages, reader, manner, poetry, himself, rhetorical, passage, dramatic, prose, poetic, uses, technique, lines, characteristic, theme, writing, treatment, makes, serious, kind, familiar

[6 words] passage, kata, tovs, rpos, kara, trov, rovs, kalt, avrov, rapa, katl, tovto, repl, tols, words, aaaa, evov, passages, kacl, follows, evos, otov, rots, avtov, kcal, rept, elval, tovtov, rtov, a7ro

[6 words] edition, scholia, text, codex, manuscripts, manuscript, saec, editions, libri, readings, bibl, parisinus, teubner, moschopulean, scaliger, aiax, dindorf, printed, codices, stephanus, turyn, commentary, moschopulus, scholium, collated, contains, vita, collation, vaticanus, leiden

[6 words] hair, face, body, neck, front, eyes, legs, drapery, heads, lower, shoulder, nose, folds, upper, slightly, forehead, arms, mouth, female, short, shoulders, piece, relief, beard, chiton, broken, ears, behind, feet, wears

[6 words] himself, friends, political, personal, public, friend, whom, friendship, attitude, position, reputation, conduct, having, towards, toward, enemies, praise, private, cause, return, influence, claim, speech, charges, power, true, actions, themselves, felt, career

[6 words] anche, alla, nella, sono, questo, essere, questa, parte, nell, degli, secondo, quale, sulla, solo, dalla, quella, quanto, prima, stato, stesso, loro, piiu, fatto, infatti, dopo, quello, egli, cosi, aristotele, nota

[6 words] folio, vienna, strassburg, laurens, maps, vols, heitz, kunstgeschichte, univ, aufl, text, architecture, edit, ills, oest, gruyter, impr, herausg, macmillan, deutsche, hans, renaissance, verlag, seemann, paul, heft, filser, augsburg, jahrhunderts, stuttgart

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[5 words] love, himself, fear, anger, passion, moral, violence, suicide, punishment, desire, woman, herself, contrast, suffering, makes, victim, gods, evil, power, pity, shame, fate, situation, grief, cause, violent, behavior, becomes, theme, madness

[5 words] line, lines, delos, inscr, lessee, delian, estates, bruneau, rheneia, idelos, hieropoioi, rental, rentals, estate, temple, leases, kent, lessees, mykonos, roussel, inventories, tenes, guarantor, listed, lacroix, lease, lxiii, saec, debtor, decennium

[5 words] aber, wird, durch, oder, einer, wenn, werden, diese, sind, noch, hier, sein, nach, dieser, kann, einen, haben, sondern, einem, doch, seiner, seine, selbst, dann, schon, denn, mehr, ganz, dieses, ohne