The Greek theater and its drama

by Roy C. Flickinger

INDEX OF PASSAGES

(Boldface figures refer to the pages of this volume. Works which are known to us only by title or short fragments are indicated by an asterisk.)

• Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.)
• Agamemnon (City Dionysia, 458 B.C.): vss. 1 ff., [225], [285], [291], [305]; 40 ff., [298 f.]; 589, [255]; 810, [255 f.]; 855 ff., [155], [166]; 905-57, [276]; 1343-45, [128], [229]; 1344-71, [134], [158-60]; 1348-71, [44]; 1372, [128]; also [137], [198], [256], [258 f.]
• Eumenides (City Dionysia, 458 B.C.): vss. 1 ff., [305]; 33-64, [286]; 64 (schol.), [285]; 79, [206]; 93, [286 f.]; 94, [287]; 140-79, [151], [287]; 234, [247], [250]; 244, [151]; 306-96, [153 f.]; 744, [232]; 746-53, [171]; also [136 f.], [198], [232], [247], [258 f.], [274]
• Libation-Bearers (City Dionysia, 458 B.C.): vss. 10-16, [210 f.]; 22 f., [150]; 766 ff., [166]; 886-902, 892 (schol.), [178]; 900-903, [170]; 904, [128]; also [125], [137-39], [198], [248], [258 f.]
• Niobe,* [230]
• Persians (City Dionysia, 472 B.C.): arg., [299]; vss. 1 ff., [150], [208], [299]; 155 f., [208 f.]; 231-44, [219 f.]; 249-90, [165]; 302-526, [128]; 348, 474 f., [220]; 681, [106], [225 f.]; 761, [206]; 849 ff., [175]; also [56], [124], [134], [136], [139], [166 f.], [192], [226], [248 f.], [276], [298], [305]
• Prometheus Bound (ca. 470 B.C.): vss. 3, 12, [210 f.]; 81-88, [174], [228]; 85, [210 f.], [88 ff.], [305]; 124-29, [290]; 133 f., [150]; 136-40, [210]; 272-82, [290]; 284-87, 397 ff., [289 f.]; 1067, [137]; 1093, [228]; also [20], [134], [137], [139], [166-68], [174]; [192], [226-28], [258]
• Prometheus the Fire-Kindler,* frag. 207 (Nauck), [30]
• Prometheus Unbound* (ca. 470 B.C.), [227 f.], [258]
• Proteus* (City Dionysia, 458 B.C.), [198]
• Seven against Thebes (City Dionysia, 467 B.C.): arg., [23]; vss. 1, [206]; 4-7, [210]; 78-180, [230]; 214, 240, [150]; 235, [206]; 375-676, [275 f.]; 800-821, [128]; 961-1005, [175], [179], [283]; also [134], [136-38], [166 f.], [205], [226]
• Suppliants (ca. 490 B.C.): vss. 1 ff., [150]; 1-175, [230]; 12, 176, [209]; 234-480, [165], [230]; 234-503, [163 f.], [166], [169]; 247 ff., [209]; 524-99, [252]; 775-980, [173]; 776-836, [174]; 907-53, [164], [166]; 953-80, [174]; also [56], [133 f.], [136-38], [163 f.], [167-69], [192], [205], [226], [234], [265], [298], [304 f.]
• Weighing of Souls,* [292]
• Agathon (first tragic victory, Lenaea, 416 B.C.)
• Antheus,* [124]
• Alexis (Middle Comedy), frag. 107 (Kock), [147]
• Antiphanes (Middle Comedy), frag. 191 (Kock), [127], [316]
• Apostolius (born ca. 1420 A.D.), xiii. 42, [12 f.], [21], [29]
• Archilochus (ca. 680-640 B.C.), frag. 77 (Bergk), [7]
• Aristophanes (ca. 444-386 B.C.; Old Comedy)
• Acharnians (Lenaea, 425 B.C.): vss. 20, [207]; 100-104, [171], [173], [187]; 133-74, [254]; 237-79, [36]; 262, [42]; 280-83, [37], [151]; 347-92, [41 note], [42 note]; 399 and (schol.), [288]; 408, [288]; 408 (schol.), [285], [287]; 479, [288]; 490-625, [41 note], [42 note]; 501-7, [196 f.]; 640, [218]; 719-835, [41]; 732, [91 f.]; 860-970, [41]; 1000-1068, [41 note], [42 note]; 1003-7, [242]; 1069 f., [210]; 1069-1142, [41]; also [327]
• Babylonians* (City Dionysia, 426 B.C.), [196], [327]
• Banqueters* (Lenaea, 427 B.C.), [326]
• Birds (City Dionysia, 414 B.C.): arg., [330 f.], [335], [337]; 310 f., [151]; 644 f., [212]; 786 ff., [197]; 801-902, [41 note], [42 note]; 1101 f., [214]; 1118-1268, 1494-1705, [41 note], [42 note]; 1615-79, [171], [173], [187]; 1763-66, [214]; also [234]
• Clouds (City Dionysia, 423 B.C.): vss. 1, [238], [243]; 126-32, [311]; 184 (schol.), [285]; 218 ff., [292]; 269, [151]; 537-39, [46]; 734, [46]; 1486 ff., [98]; also [135], [138], [207], [213], [235]
• Frogs (Lenaea, 405 B.C.): vss. 1-460, [88-91], [207], [248]; 154 f., [225]; 209 ff., [142]; 299 (schol.), [91]; 315, [142]; 416-30, [51-53]; 454 f., [225]; 555, [171], [173], [187]; 644-66, [132]; 674-737, [204]; 810 f., [122]; 830, [310]; 866-69, [203 f.]; 1411 ff., [171], [173], [187]; also [127], [135], [138]
• Knights (Lenaea, 424 B.C.): vss. 149, [91]; 230-32, [213]; 461-97, [50]; 512-14, [327]; 522 f., [54]; 544-50, [216]; also [138 f.], [327]
• Lysistrata (Lenaea, 411 B.C.): vss. 1-6, [309]; 78-246, [171], [173], [187]; 385, [207]; 725, 881, [256]; also [41], [278]
• Peace (City Dionysia, 421 B.C.): vss. 80 ff., [292]; 296 ff., [151]; 765-68, [214]; 962-65, [216]; 1039-1126, [50]
• Plutus (388 B.C.): vss. 255, [151]; 322-486, [49]; 626, [254], [257]; 770, [146]; 789-99, [216]; 821 f., [240]; also [41], [43], [92]
• Proagon* (422 B.C.), [205]
• Wasps (Lenaea, 422 B.C.): vss. 57, [48]; 58 f., [216]; 1342, 1514, [91]; also [274]
• Women at the Thesmophoria (ca. 411 B.C.): vss. 67 f., [240]; 96, 265, [288]; 284 (schol.), [287]; also [188], [207], [278]
• Women in Council (Lenaea, 392 B.C.): vss. 46-265, [44]; 311-478, [251]; 729, [146]; 871-1160, [138]; 876, [146]; 1152, [91]; 1154-58, [214]; 1158-62, [200]; 1179-83, [214 f.]; also [41], [43], [92], [135], [188], [278]
• Aristophanis Vita, § 11, [145]
• Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
• Constitution of Athens, c. 56, [273]
• Didascaliae,* [319-21], [324], [329 f.], [337]
• Dionysian Victories,* [324 note 1]
• Poetics: 1448a31 f., [47]; a32-34, [51]; b1, [8]; 1449a8, [xi]; a9-13, [6 f.], [16], [36], [44]; a18, [66], [236]; a19 ff., [21-23], [29]; a22 f., [22]; a37-b9, [35]; a38, [54 f.]; b3, [55]; b5-9, [50 f.]; b12-14, [257]; b33, [xi]; 1450a10, [xi]; a38 f., [261]; b17-21, [xi]; b22-35, [261 f.]; 1451a15-22, [262]; b25, [125]; b26, [301]; 1452b18, [93]; b24 f., [93], [96]; 1453a19, [125]; a27, [93]; b1-3, [xi]; 1454a31-33, [267]; b1, [293]; 1455a28, [93]; 1456a6, [125]; a26-32, [144-49]; 1459b22-28, [263]; b25, [93]; 1460a11-17, [93], [95 f.]; 1461b21, [293]; 1462a12, a14-17, [xi]; also [xxi], [6 note 1], [17], [246], [317]
• Politics, 1336b28 f., [190]
• Problems, 918b26, 920a9, 922b17, [93]
• Rhetoric, 1403b33, [xii], [162], [190]
• Athenaeus (ca. 230 A.D.): p. 211B, [94]; p. 347E, [17]
• Bacchylides (ca. 468 B.C.)
• Theseus, [10], [16]
• Clemens Alexandrinus (ca. 200 A.D.): p. 11 (schol.), [285]; p. 688, [96]
• Corpus Inscriptionum. See [Inscriptions]
• Cratinus (Old Comedy; first victory at City Dionysia, 452 B.C.), frag. 15 (Kock), [273]
• Dionysalexandros* (ca. 430 B.C.), arg., [330], [332-36]
• Demosthenes (ca. 384-322 B.C.): xviii. 180, xix. 337, [93]; xxi, arg. 2 f., [132]; xxi. 74, [197]; 178-80, [132]
• Diodorus Siculus (ca. 48 B.C.), xi. 10, [94]
• Diogenes Laertius (ca. 200 A.D.): iii. 56, [18 f.]; v. 92, [20]
• Ecphantides (Old Comedy; first victory ca. 455 B.C.), frag. 2 (Kock), [48]
• Epicharmus (ca. 485 B.C.), frag. 132 (Kaibel), [8]
• Etymologicum Magnum (tenth century, A.D.), s.v. θυμέλη, [18];
• s.v. τραγῳδία, [27-29]
• Eupolis (Old Comedy), frag. 244 (Kock), [48]
• Αἶγες, [30]
• Euripides (485-406 B.C.)
• Alcestis (City Dionysia, 438 B.C.): arg., [330-32]; vss. 1 ff., [206], [300], [305]; 22 f., [240], [300]; 24-26, [211]; 77, [252]; 206, [240]; 243 ff., [306]; 391, [129]; 393 ff., [179], [189]; 423 f., 435-76, [152]; 452, [218]; 476, 506, [239 f.]; 747-861, [234 f.], [250 f.], [306]; 837 ff., [306], [311]; 861 ff., 934-61, [307]; 1102, [315]; 1144-46, [232]; also [199], [201], [205], [265]
• Andromache (ca. 430 B.C.): vss. 1, 16, [206], [306]; 445-49, [219]; 547, [179]; 547-766, [170]; 732 ff., 881, [176]; 815-25, [159], [240]; 877-79, [281]; 1231 ff., [259], [295]; also [219], [257]
• Andromeda,* [292]
• Bacchanals (City Dionysia, posthumous): vss. 1, [206], [291]; 170-79, [210-12], [212]; 526, [7]; 1024-1152, [128]; 1212 ff., [98]; also [124], [154], [291], [314]
• Bellerophon,* 292
• Children of Heracles (ca. 430 B.C.): vss. 120 ff., [166]; 309-15, [218]; 642 f., [242 f.]; 1026-29, [218]; 1052, [128]; also [218]
• Cyclops (ca. 440 B.C.): vss. 11 ff., [126]; 79 f., [31]; 445 f., [240]; 479-82, [241]; 507 f., [240]; 601 ff., [153 f.]; 608-27, 648, [154]; 653, [153 f.]; 655-62, [154]; 668, [222]; 694 f., [241]; also [22], [29], [126], [167], [199], [224], [241], [253]
• Electra (ca. 413 B.C.): vss. 1-53, [259]; 168 ff., [151]; 341 ff., [281]; 434-78, [139-41], [143]; 1165-67, [128]; 1238, [259]; also [125], [260]
• Hecabe (ca. 425 B.C.): vss. 1-58, [226], [302]; 68 f., [226]; 105, [151]; 736-51, [312]; 1034-55, [131], [159]; 1056, [222]; 1132-1237, 275
• Helen (412 B.C.): vss. 1-67, [301]; 184, [151]; 306, 317, [143]; 385, 515, [251]; 1165-68, [248]; 1186-1300, [170]; 1301-68, [142]; 1387 ff., [156], [160], [294]; 1629 ff., [143]; 1662, [249]
• Hippolytus (428 B.C.): vss. 42 f., [302]; 61-72, [141]; 129 ff., [151]; 178-81, [240]; 565-600, [241 f.]; 710-14, [156]; 776-87, [159]; 1060-63, [312]; 1102-19, [140]; 1342, [222]; 1423-30, [295]; also [235]
• Hypsipyle,* vss. 1579 ff., [179 f.]
• Ion (ca. 412 B.C.): vss. 72 f., [302 f.]; 183-228, [160]; 234 f., [151]; 666 f., [157]; 675, [177]; 760, [157]; 1130 ff., [177]; 1520 ff., [312]; 1553 ff., [302 f.]
• Iphigenia at Aulis (City Dionysia, posthumous): vss. 1, [225]; 164 ff., 187 f., [151]; 303, 307, [310]; 794-800, [140]; 1211 ff., [267]; 1532 f., [242 f.]; also [205], [302]
• Iphigenia among the Taurians (ca. 414 B.C.): vss. 42 f., [308]; 66, [252]; 1061-68, [156], [160]; 1068-70, [88]; 1234-83, [142 f.]; 1392, [294]; 1435 ff., [201 f.], [294 f.]; 1446-61, [295]; 1447, 1462, [249]; 1467 f., [160 f.]; 1497 ff., xvii, [215]; also [205]
• Madness of Heracles (ca. 421 B.C.): vss. 158-205, [275]; 749-54, [128]; 822 ff., [260], [310]; 1029 ff., [128], [288 f.]
• Medea (431 B.C.): arg., [266 f.]; vss. 1 ff., [307 f.]; 49-52, [307]; 56-58, [240], [308 f.]; 131 ff., [151]; 230-66, [156 f.]; 465-575, [275]; 663 ff., [293]; 824 ff., [xviii], [217]; 1053 f., [159]; 1271 ff., [179]; 1279 ff., [160]; 1312 ff., [159]; 1321 ff., [292]; also [237], [266 f.]
• Orestes (408 B.C.): vss. 1, [238], [243]; 26 f., [306]; 131-211, [153]; 1103 f., [156]; 1245, [177]; 1251, [143 f.]; 1313-20, [222 f.]; 1353 ff., [143 f.]; 1554, 1591, [177]; 1625-32, [292 f.], [295 f.]; 1691 (schol.), [215]; 1691 ff., [xvii], [215]; also [303]
• Phaethon,* frag. 773 (Nauck), [93]
• Phoenician Maids (ca. 410 B.C.): vss. 88-102, [178], [191], [281], [291]; 93 (schol.), [178]; 192 ff., [93], [282]; 202 ff., [151]; 202 (schol.), [139]; 261-73, 357 f., [249]; 638-75, [140]; 801-27, [140 f.]; 1019-67, [140]; 1264-82, [178], [181]; 1308, [222]; 1764 ff., [xvii], [215]; also [136], [138], [205]
• [Rhesus] (possibly a fourth-century production): vss. 1 ff., [299]; 10, [209]; 565-674, [251]; 627 f., 885 f., [291]; also [92], [148], [224], [253]
• Suppliants (ca. 421 B.C.): vss. 403-8, [219]; 510-13, [171]; 598-634, [257]; 1071, [129]; 1183, [294]; also [137 f.], [205], [218], [231 f.]
• Trojan Women (415 B.C.): vss. 1 f., [305]; 143-45, [151]; 208 f., [218]; also [274]
• Eusebius (ca. 300 A.D.)
• Chronica, Ol. 47, 2, [14]
• Eustathius (twelfth century A.D.), p. 976, 15, [287]
• Hegemon (Old Comedy), [217]
• Herodotus (ca. 484-428 B.C.): i. 23, [9 f.]; v. 63, [11-15]; v. 82 f., [37]
• Homer (ca. 875 B.C.)
• Iliad iii, [255]; xxii. 205 f., [95]
• Odyssey iv, [280]; iv. 121 f., vi. 102 ff., [255]; xi. 185 f. and 445, [254 f.]; xxiv. 417, [282]
• Also [245], [266], [277], [279 f.], [282], [289], [301], [304-6]
• Horace (65-68 B.C.)
• Ars Poetica: vss. 119 ff., [266]; 189 f., [193]; 192, [186]; 220 f., [28 f.]; 276, [19]
• Inscriptions
• From Athens, [72], [74], [90], [319-30]
• From Delos, [59 note], [107 f.]
• From Delphi, [185]
• From Oropus, [108 f.]
• From Paros, [14], [21], [38]
• Jerome (Hieronymus; ca. 400 A.D.)
• Chr., Ol. 47, 2, [14]
• Liber Glossarum, [46]
• Lucian (ca. 150 A.D.)
• Lucius sive Asinus, § 47, [94]
• Lysias (458-378 B.C.), xxi. 1-5, [271]
• Magnes (Old Comedy), [54]
• Marmor Parium (264 B.C.): p. 13 (Jacoby), [38]; p. 14, [14], [21]
• Medea* (unknown author; fourth century B.C.), [146], [148]
• Menander (New Comedy; 342-291 B.C.)
• Girl with Shorn Locks, [147], [304]
• Hero,* [304]
• Imbrians* (ca. 301 B.C.), arg., [331 f.], [336 f.]
• Jernstedt frag., [147]
• Parian Chronicle. See [Marmor Parium]
• Pausanias (second century A.D.), viii. 9. 1, [7]
• Philemon (New Comedy; died ca. 262 B.C.), frag. 79 (Kock), [309]
• Philostratus (ca. 200 A.D.)
• Apollonius of Tyana, p. 245, [203]
• Photius (died 891 A.D.)
• Lexicon, s.v. ἴκρια, s.v. ληναῖον, s.v. ὀρχήστρα, [63]; s.v. οὐδὲν πρὸς τὸν Διόνυσον, [12 f.], [21], [29]
• Phrynichus (first tragic victory, 511 B.C.)
• Capture of Miletus (ca. 490 B.C.), [124]
• Phoenician Women (City Dionysia, 476 B.C.), [56], [124], [141], [192], [205], [210], [276], [298], [305]
• Pindar (522-442 B.C.)
• Olym. xiii, [7], [9]
• Plato (428-347 B.C.)
• Laws, p. 659A-C, [216]; 700B, [7]
• Minos, p. 321A, [16]
• Republic, p. 394C (schol.), [7], [11]
• Symposium, p. 194B, [205 f.]
• Plautus (died 184 B.C.)
• Amphitruo, vss. 1 ff., 463 ff., [304]; also [208]
• Braggart Captain: vss. 79 ff., [304]; 88, [208]; 145 ff., [303 f.]; 523 ff., [243]
• Captives: vss. 69, [256]; 460-768, [255 f.]; 897, [256]
• Carthaginian, vss. 94, 372, [207]
• Casket: vss. 89 f., [123]; 149 ff., [304]; 156-59, [123]
• Churl: vss. 1-3, [207]; 448, [238]
• Fisherman’s Rope: vs. 32, [208]; also [236]
• Haunted House, vss. 1, [240]; 248, [238 f.]
• Menaechmi: vss. 8 f., [207]; 956, [249]
• Merchant, vss. 3-5, [309]
• Persian, [278]
• Pseudolus (191 B.C.), vss. 720 f., [233]
• Plutarch (ca. 90 A.D.)
• Aratus xxiii, [103]
• Brutus xlv, [94]
• Demetrius xxxii, [94]; xxxiv, [101-3]
• Lycurgus vi, [101]
• Nicias iii, [271]
• Pompey xlii, [81]
• Solon xxix, [17-19]
• Praecepta Ger. Reip., p. 823B, [102]
• [X Oratorum Vitae], p. 841D, 852C, [69]
• Also [60 note]
• Pollux (second century A.D.)
• Onomasticon: iv. 123, [18 f.], [78 f.], [97-99]; 124, [100 f.]; 127, [60], [78 f.]; 128, [287]; 132, [106]; also [94], [213]
• Pratinas (ca. 499 B.C.), frag. 1 (Bergk), [7]
• Seneca (died 65 A.D.)
• Agamemnon, vss. 981 ff., [188]; also [141]
• Hercules on Mt. Oeta, vss. 104 ff., 583 ff., 1031 ff., [141]
• Medea, vss. 973, 995, [60]
• Simonides (556-467 B.C.)
• Memnon,* [11]
• Solon (639-559 B.C.)
• Elegies,* [8 f.], [11]
• Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.)
• Ajax (ca. 440 B.C.): vss. 1 ff., [291]; 134 (schol.), [139]; 143, [151]; 344, [287]; 372 ff., [306]; 593, [287]; 814, [247], [250]; 865, [129], [282]; 892, 915, [244]; also [244]
• Antigone (ca. 441 B.C.): arg., [330 f.], [335]; vss. 18 f., [240]; 101, [206]; 164 f., [151]; 334-75, [142]; 639-723, [275]; 806 ff., [306]; 1016-22, 1080-83, [131]; 1115-52, [142]; 1293, [128]; also [139], [192 f.], [282]
• Electra (ca. 420-414 B.C.): vss. 4, [206]; 15, 32 ff., [259 f.], [310]; 129 f., [151 f.]; 310 ff., 516 ff., [152]; 660 ff., [168]; 1202-4, [155 f.]; 1296-1313, [222]; 1404, [128]; also [125]
• Maidens of Trachis (ca. 420-410 B.C.): vss. [1-48], [302]; 103, [151]; 167 f., [314]; 307-27, [176 f.]; 983-1263, [129]; 1170-73, [314]; also [139]
• Nausicaa,* [169]
• Oedipus at Colonus (402 B.C.; posthumous): vss. 1 ff., 38, [212]; 117, [151]; 494-506, [171]; 1099-1555, 1457-99, [182], [187]; 1611 ff., [187]; also [180-82], [205], [218], [227], [231], [236]
• Oedipus the King (ca. 430 B.C.): vss. 6 f., [240]; 91-95, [155]; 144, [151]; 264, [313]; 924 ff., [167 f.]; 1014 ff., [314]; 1268-79, [131]; 1307, [222]; also [205], [273]
• Philoctetes (409 B.C.): vss. 38 f., [131]; 135 ff., [150]; 649 f., 696-99, [131]; 825-62, [153]; 1070-95, [158]; 1408, [296]
• Thamyris,* [169]
• Trackers (Ichneutae; ca. 445 B.C.): [22], [29-31], [126], [199]
• Suidas (ca. 970 A.D.), s.v. Aeschylus, [325]; s.v. Arion, [10]; s.v. οὐδὲν πρὸς τὸν Διόνυσον, [12 f.], [15], [21], [29]; s.v. Phrynichus, [4]; s.v. Pratinas, [23], [63]; s.v. Sophocles, [325]; s.v. Thespis, [12], [20]
• Terence (died 159 B.C.)
• Andrian girl (166 B.C.): vss. 236 ff., [314]; 247, 301 ff., [315 f.]; 420 ff., [315]; 489-94, [242]; 581-96, 625 ff., [315]; 820 f., [310]; 957 ff., [315]; also [279], [304]
• Brothers (160 B.C.), vs. 517, [310]
• Phormio (161 B.C.), vss. 862-69, [241]
• Self-Tormentor (163 B.C.): vss. 171, 409, [141 f.]; 410, [253], [257]; 748, [141 f.]
• Themistius (died ca. 388 A.D.), p. 316D, [298]
• Thespis (sixth century B.C.), [20 f.]
• Tzetzes (twelfth century A.D.), p. 18 (Kaibel Com. Gr. Frag.), [52 f.]
• Vitruvius (ca. 15 B.C.): v. 6 f., [75-77], [87], [97]; v. 8, 2, [80];
• vii. praefatio, 11, [66], [236];
• viii, praefatio, 1, [96]; also [79-87], [90 f.], [92]