The Use of Anonymous Characters in Greek Tragedy: The Shaping of Heroes

191 Pages·2012·1.32 MB·English

by  Florence Yoon

The Use of Anonymous Characters in Greek Tragedy
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The Use of Anonymous
Characters in Greek Tragedy
The Shaping of Heroes
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FlorenceYoon
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2012
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements..................................................... ix
ReferencesandAbbreviations.......................................... xi
Introduction:“What’sinaName?”...................................... 1
I. Classes .............................................................. 9
1. PersonalServants................................................. 10
1.1.NursesandTutors ........................................... 13
2. OtherServants.................................................... 21
2.1.Heralds....................................................... 22
3. Priests ............................................................ 26
4. Children.......................................................... 31
II. Individuals .......................................................... 39
1. WhatTheySay ................................................... 41
1.1.Prologizomenoi............................................... 41
1.2.EteoclesandHisScout(Septem)............................. 46
1.3.AgamemnonandtheHerald(Agamemnon)................. 48
1.4.AdmetusandtheServants(Alcestis)......................... 51
2. WhatIsSaidtoThem............................................. 55
2.1.CreonandtheWatchman(Antigone)........................ 55
2.2.DeianeiraandtheMessenger(Trachiniae) .................. 59
2.3.OrestesandtheTutor(Sophocles’Electra) .................. 61
2.4.Iolaus,Alcmene,andtheServantofHyllus(Heracleidae) ... 67
2.5.HippolytusandtheOldMan(Hippolytus) ................... 70
2.6.AndromacheandHerσύνδουλος(Andromache) ............. 72
2.7.Electra,Orestes,andtheOldTutor(Euripides’Electra) ..... 74
2.8.MenelausandtheDoorkeeper(Helen) ...................... 77
2.9.OrestesandthePhrygianSlave(Orestes) .................... 81
3. WhatTheyDo.................................................... 85
3.1.PhaedraandHerNurse(Hippolytus)......................... 86
3.2.CreousaandtheOldTutor(Ion)............................. 92
3.3.AgamemnonandtheOldServant(IA)....................... 96
4. WhatTheyAre ................................................... 98
4.1.ElectraandtheAutourgos(Euripides’Electra) .............. 99
viii contents
4.2.HeraclesandHisDaughter(Heracleidae).................... 105
4.3.EurystheusandHisHerald(Heracleidae).................... 107
4.4.TheEgyptiansandTheirHerald?(Aeschylus’Supplicesand
Aegyptioi).................................................... 113
III.SpecialCases ........................................................ 121
1. ThePersianQueen:TheAnonymityofaHistoricalFigure ....... 121
2. Cilissa:AnonymouslyNamed .................................... 130
3. TheSlaveofLoxiasinIon:NaminganAnonymousCharacter ... 133
IV.ContrastsandComparisons......................................... 141
1. Epic:HomerandHesiod.......................................... 141
2. AristophanicComedy:TheκηδεστήςinThesmophoriazusae ..... 147
3. ABriefNoteonLaterTragedy.................................... 152
Conclusion ............................................................. 157
Bibliography............................................................ 161
Index ................................................................... 177
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ThankstoScottScullion,mydoctoralsupervisor,towhosecriticalinsight,
support,andruthlessnesswithcommasIamforeverindebted.
Thanks to the Rhodes Trust and the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada, which made it possible for me to write the
thesisonwhichthismonographisbased.
ThankstoBillAllanandJudithMossman,mydoctoralexaminers,who
broughttheκηδεστήςtomyattention,toJasperGriffinandOliverTaplin,
who oversaw the beginning of this project, and to the (anonymous) Brill
reader,whogavemuchvaluableadvice.
ThankstoMyongYoon,GeoffreyWildeandPeterWilde,whoreadand
proofreadthemanuscriptwithscientificeyes,andtotherestofmyfamily
andfriendsfortheirmoralsupport.