Thematic Index of Classics in JStor

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Dynasty and Family in the Athenian City State: A View from Attic Tragedy

Judith Maitland

Classical Quarterly. (1992) pp. 26-40

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[493 words] political, power, democracy, city, politics, citizens, rule, government, democratic, polis, laws, constitution, community, republic, aristocratic, empire, individual, freedom, ideal, aristocracy, citizen, economic, wealth, control, monarchy, tyranny, oligarchy, states, athens, institutions

[407 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

[352 words] women, marriage, children, woman, wife, family, child, slave, mother, husband, slaves, daughter, married, father, male, female, her_husband, parents, his_wife, status, wives, household, young, girl, bride, marry, birth, sons, girls, sexual

[276 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

[203 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

[191 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

[133 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

[118 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

[104 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

[101 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

[84 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

[76 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

[61 words] word, meaning, sense, words, term, uses, phrase, passage, mean, context, passages, usage, applied, verb, expression, refer, language, refers, meanings, adjective, idea, meant, equivalent, elsewhere, describe, latin, technical, epithet, definition, simply

[56 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

[48 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

[45 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

[45 words] women, female, male, woman, gender, feminine, masculine, sexual, males, amazons, females, feminist, masculinity, inlaw, sexuality, skinner, desire, gendered, slides, thesmophoria, bottiger, feminism, oikos, mcclure, cross-dressing, richlin, irigaray, greene, kinsman, men_and_women

[45 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

[39 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

[34 words] hippolytus, phaedra, sexual, laughter, nurse, phallus, aphrodite, theseus, priapus, euripides, barrett, aidos, mime, laugh, obscene, adams, henderson, phallic, herodas, penis, joke, vocatives, play, smile, humor, artemis, address, erotic, male, interjection

[33 words] family, father, name, sons, his_father, consul, daughter, married, brother, families, younger, whom, wife, his_son, elder, mother, names, himself, brothers, cognomen, birth, murena, young, sister, early, marriage, grandson, grandfather, adoption, became

[30 words] story, myth, ovid, apollo, stories, myths, version, tale, legend, metamorphoses, narrative, mythological, episode, tradition, phaethon, metamorphosis, versions, rape, daedalus, daughter, told, mythical, birth, theseus, aphrodite, pelops, hymn, zeus, tales, name

[29 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

[25 words] medea, helen, jason, philoctetes, neoptolemus, apollonius, euripides, menelaus, argonauts, valerius, odysseus, argonautica, play, children, troy, argo, story, theseus, neoptolemos, aegeus, andromache, scene, epic, walcott, episode, herself, hermione, ariadne, fleece, pelias

[24 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

[18 words] demosthenes, speech, speeches, isocrates, rhetoric, lysias, aeschines, rhetorical, gorgias, speaker, oration, orator, oratory, orators, antiphon, delivered, athens, aristotle, forensic, audience, written, palamedes, sophists, political, isokrates, helen, athenian, orations, blass, assembly

[16 words] comments, suggestions, helpful, anonymous, help, version, advice, draft, assistance, valuable, referee, express, gratitude, referees, encouragement, professors, provided, reading, criticism, seminar, criticisms, generous, humanities, drafts, grant, colleagues, acknowledge, classics, delivered, errors

[15 words] athens, sparta, peace, philip, league, athenian, thebes, alliance, athenians, cities, treaty, allies, demosthenes, states, argos, boeotia, greece, thebans, spartan, theban, spartans, persia, embassy, king, boeotian, thessaly, decree, corinth, greeks, policy

[15 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

[15 words] solon, athenian, aristotle, athens, assembly, laws, constitution, boule, citizens, phratry, office, areopagus, democracy, demos, tribes, athenians, archons, rhodes, decree, tribe, magistrates, genos, body, hansen, fourth_century, fifth_century, meetings, phratries, archon, tribal

[14 words] athenian, slaves, athens, slave, finley, citizen, athenians, citizens, demosthenes, security, slavery, davies, apollodorus, free, classical_athens, property, metics, eisphora, wealth, pasion, apollodoros, hubris, horoi, wealthy, metic, speaker, status, city, cohen, citizenship

[13 words] aristotle, pleasure, virtue, action, justice, desire, pleasures, moral, things, happiness, ethics, pain, soul, virtues, goods, actions, desires, person, agent, eudaimonia, activity, rational, sake, sense, natural, plato, something, claim, ethical, pleasant

[12 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

[12 words] mind, power, true, sense, moral, truth, knowledge, things, idea, ideal, experience, himself, divine, spirit, individual, ideas, natural, conception, expression, reality, real, feeling, vision, attitude, toward, every, intellectual, beauty, something, action

[12 words] thucydides, athens, pericles, athenian, athenians, alcibiades, thuc, cleon, nicias, gomme, speech, sparta, speeches, political, historian, spartan, peloponnesian_war, spartans, brasidas, demos, perikles, democracy, themistocles, melos, sicily, funeral, alkibiades, debate, thucydidean, events

[11 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

[11 words] livy, sallust, polybius, appian, books, jugurtha, historian, florus, historians, livius, tacitus, trogus, antias, justin, orosius, epitome, periochae, anacyclosis, virtus, narrative, decade, histories, fortuna, bellum, catiline, justinus, syme, velleius, historiography, pompeius_trogus

[10 words] moon, stars, aratus, star, earth, planets, astronomical, signs, rising, zodiac, astronomy, ptolemy, comet, venus, sign, manilius, astrology, orion, horoscope, astrological, constellation, setting, pleiades, night, celestial, eclipse, mercury, hours, saturn, constellations

[8 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

[8 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

[7 words] tiberius, tacitus, augustus, claudius, germanicus, suetonius, gaius, emperor, nero, drusus, agrippina, suet, piso, agrippa, senate, livia, velleius, caligula, reign, sejanus, princeps, annals, syme, corbulo, principate, julia, imperial, silanus, historian, gallus

[7 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

[6 words] egyptian, egypt, dynasty, tomb, alexandria, king, nile, temple, egyptians, cairo, petrie, tombs, scarabs, period, osiris, isis, reign, sarapis, pyramid, ptolemaic, naukratis, royal, thebes, memphis, scarab, alexandrian, amarna, sesostris, middle_kingdom, rowe

[6 words] etruscan, etruria, tomb, etruscans, mirror, mirrors, tombs, italy, urns, poggio, civitate, florence, bronze, caere, italic, pallottino, cista, tarquinia, tomba, archaic, chiusi, terracotta, bronzes, vulci, bucchero, early, paestum, tarquinii, terracottas, sixth

[6 words] apollo, cult, zeus, temple, athena, pausanias, delphi, sanctuary, athens, oracle, artemis, shrine, sacred, altar, demeter, poseidon, goddess, festival, paus, name, dedicated, statue, athenian, hero, aphrodite, delos, cults, inscription, dedication, city

[6 words] fire, water, earth, wind, rain, winds, heat, cold, weather, night, lightning, storm, clouds, thunder, burning, eruption, snow, volcanic, cloud, winter, drought, darkness, smoke, hail, fires, flame, earthquakes, flames, pumice, phenomena

[5 words] aristotle, things, forms, plato, thing, sense, knowledge, objects, perception, something, object, matter, substance, sensible, distinction, true, senses, kind, mind, passage, equal, particulars, socrates, individual, definition, exist, unity, parmenides, species, thinking

[5 words] greeks, greece, peoples, cities, early, land, strabo, egypt, asia_minor, name, island, city, eastern, region, italy, islands, country, native, inhabitants, geographical, western, tribes, coast, tradition, northern, mediterranean, asia, civilization, romans, population