Index
[Not including the Bibliography.]
Abdêra,144
Achílles,177 ff.
Acts, book of,21
Actaêon,66
Aêschylus,11, 25, 58, 59, 67, 70, 121, 135, 182 ff., 186, 206, 234
Agamémnon,153, 207
Chöêphori,153
Euménides,183, 234
Lycurgeîa,66, 182 f., 186
Pérsae,43, 104
Promêtheus,66, 206, 238
Seven,43
Suppliants,121
Agamémnon,133, 175-179, 206
Ágathon,170
Ágôn (Contest),64
Áîtion (mythical cause),66
Alcibîades (ĭ in Greek),110-114
Álcman,106
Altar, in tragedy,210 f.
Anaxágoras,30, 51 f., 58, 116
Anaximánder,63
Apóllo,36, 121-126
Archelâüs (like "slay us"):
(1) philosopher,56;
(2) King of Macedon,169
Archer, W.,221
Architecture of plays,209 ff., 215
Árete (virtue),38, 41, 50
Argos,112
Aristîdes,43, 47, 49
Aristóphanes,25, 30 f., 74
Acharnians,26, 77
Birds,143
Frogs,25, 26, 114, 120, 172, 191, 192
Knights,27, 46, 112
Women at the Thesmophória,25, 27
Áristotle,10, 20, 129, 244, 245
Athêna,42, 131
Athens, after Persian War,37 ff., 39-42, 45, 110;
ideals of,39-42, 109, 115;
changes in,107-115;
and Euripides,30-34, 89, 99, 119, 166 ff.;
constitution of,97 f.
Atmosphere of play,210 f.
Augustine,141
Biography,21;
of Euripides,23
Blood-feud,152, 153
Browning, R.,9
Cephîsophon,29, 167
Chárites (Graces),105
Chervil,26
Chorus,83, 228-242;
in dialogue, 237 f.
Clarity in style,13
Classicism,199
Cleon,58, 109 f., 118
Clytemnéstra,152-157, 175-180, 206
Coleridge,204
Comedy. See Aristophanes, New Comedy
Convention in art,201 ff.;
as opposed to nature,53 f.
Conversion,141
Cornford, F. M.,64, 232, 234
Dance,62, 229 f.
Dêmokêdes,49, 194 f.
Democracy,38 ff., 116
Deus ex mâchinâ (appearance of a God from a stage machine),64, 156 f., 160-164, 221-227.
See Epiphany
Dickens, 33
Diógenes of Apollonia,56
Dionŷsus,64 f.;
his ritual,64 f.;
festival,68;
in Bacchae,188
Drama, Greek. See Tragedy
mediaeval liturgical,62, 65;
Elizabethan,60, 235
Elizabethans,60, 235
Elmsley,9
Empire, Athenian,108-110
"Enlightenment," 48, 96, 116.
See Ideas
Ephêbi,43
Epicûrus,20
Epiphany,64, 156 f., 160-164.
See Deus ex Mâchinâ
Eurípides: birth,22, 35;
death,171 f.;
biography,23 ff.;
portrait,28;
father,35;
mother,26 f., 35;
books,28, 103;
cave at Salamis,29, 165;
ideas,7, 99;
teachers,50-59;
as playwright,7, 10, 85;
mysticism,8, 163;
attitude to Religion,190-194;
influence after death,10 ff.;
relation to Athens,30 f., 89, 99, 119 ff., 126, 166 ff.;
and Comedy,30;
attitude to women,28, 32 ff., 84 ff., 121-126;
style,237 f.;
technique,125, 198 ff.;
battle pieces,104
Euripides' Ode on Alcibiades,113
Epitaph on those slain in Sicily,144
Aêgeus,98
Aêolus,78
Alcéstis,70, 72 f., 88
Alcmaêon in Corinth,173
Alcmaêon in Psophis,71, 73 f.
Alexánder,137-139
Álope,121
Andrómache (like "from a key"),98, 112, 163, 210, 224
Andrómeda,143-145
Antîope (ĭ in Greek),239
Aûge,121
Bacchae,9, 19, 173, 181-190, 195 ff.
Bellerophóntes,101, 190
Children of Héracles,93 f., 98, 210
Cretans,79
Cretan Women,71, 77
Cŷclops,70
Danaë,121
Daughters of Pélias,69 f., 81
Eléctra,138, 152-157, 195, 219 f., 224, 240
Eréchtheus,98
Hécuba,89-90, 143, 163, 187, 229
Hélena,142, 146-148, 163, 192
Héracles,99-105, 191, 197, 210, 234, 239
Hippólytus,85-88, 163, 191 ff., 210, 213 f., 217-219, 224, 236, 238
Îon,79, 119-126, 192, 199
Îphigenîa in Aulis,173-181, 191
Îphigenîa in Tauris,101, 142, 145-146, 163, 210, 229, 234, 238
Medêa,32, 81-86, 90, 143, 163, 187, 192, 206, 229, 240-242
Melaníppe,27, 121
Oréstes,158-163, 168, 191, 195, 229
Palamêdes,137, 139 f.
Phoeníssae,148-152, 163
Rhêsus,44, 71, 224
Suppliant Women,94-98, 111, 210, 234
Têlephus,72, 74 ff.
Thêseus,92
Trojan Women,130-137, 140 ff., 191, 210, 234, 236.
Forgiveness, doctrine of,162-164
Frazer, J. G.,64
Freedom of Thought,58, 96
French Revolution,118
Gellius,25
Glover,141
Gods,191-192;
on stage,156 f.
See Deus ex Mâchinâ
Goethe,10, 245
Graces, The,105
Grenfell,24
Haigh,232
Hardy, T.,234
Harrison, J. E.,64, 222
Hecataêus,49
Helen,162
Hellenism,39
Héracles, Children of,41.
See under Euripides
Heraclîtus,63
Herd, The,193 f., 196
Heroes,65 f.
Heródotus,20, 39-42, 53 f., 107
Hêsiod,47
Hippócrates,21
Historical Spirit,199 f.
Homer,36, 131, 229
Horace,222
Hubris,63, 128
Hunt,24
Hygiaînon,167
Hypérbolus,110 f.
Ibsen,9, 33, 206
Ideas,45 f., 116
Immortality,36
Initiations,36
Innocents, Massacre of,65
Iônia,45 ff., 49, 51
Jâson,82-85, 206
Johnson, S.,211
Law,39 ff.
Leicester, Earl of,60
Lincoln, Abraham,231
Macaulay,9
Macedonia,
169-173
Magnêsia,169
Mary Magdalen,65
Masks,75
Mediaeval Drama,62, 65
Mégara,44
Melian Dialogue,127-130
Mêlos,127-132, 194
Memory,106 f., 242
Menánder. See New Comedy
Menelâüs ("slay us"),113, 158 ff., 176 f., 206
Meredith, G.,103, 203
Messenger,214-220
Milêtus, Fall of,66
Military Service,43, 101 f., 105
Miltîades (ĭ in Greek),43, 49
Milton,9, 208
Mnesílochus,29
Muses,34, 105
Mysteries,36
Mystery Plays,62, 65, 185
Mysticism,8, 163
Nature, opposed to Convention,53 f.
Nelson, Horatio,231
Neîrekepta,230
Nestlé,8
New Comedy,173 f., 201 f.
"Nómos." See Convention
Norwood, G.,8
Old Age,166
Old Year,63 f.
Olympic Games,113
Oréstes,66, 153 ff.
See under Euripides
Parian Marble,22
Paris, Gaston,61
Pasíphaë,79
Patriotism,98.
See Plays, patriotic
Paul,141
Peasants, Greek,46 f., 117
Peloponnêsian War,91, 94, 107-110
Péntheus,66, 181 ff.
Péricles,43, 52, 58, 91, 108 f.
Persians,37
Persian War,37, 48
Phaêdra,86-88, 213 f.
Philóchorus,24 ff., 27
Philodêmus,168
Phlŷa,35 f., 46
Phrŷnichus,42
Phûsis (ŭ in Greek).
See Nature
Pindar,48, 121, 140
Plato,15, 29, 32, 50, 140
Plays. See under Authors:
Euripides', patriotic,91 f., 98;
early,70-73;
after 415,142 ff.
Plûtarch,113
Poets, ancient and modern,102 f.
Polygnôtus,42, 44
Porson,9
Preparation,216-221
Pródicus,56
Prologues,207-212
Promêtheus,206.
See Aeschylus
Protágoras,30, 54-56
Pythágoras,49
Realism,19, 76, 174, 224;
aversion from,103 f.
Religion,190-194
Resurrection,35, 64, 181, 190 f.
Rhyme,203
Ridgeway,65
Ritual in tragedy,62-67, 174, 202;
forms,64, 181
Romance,73 f., 142-146, 205
Russell, B.,243
Salamis,29, 37, 165;
battle of,22, 66
Sátyrus,23 ff., 31
Sátyr-plays,67 f.
Scott, W.,33
Sex questions,78 f., 121
Shakespeare,60, 208 f., 243
Shaw, G. B.,206
Shelley,9, 18, 95, 234
Sicilian Expedition,130, 170, 194
Sicily,130, 170
Simônides,144
Sincerity of Greek Tragedy,204
Slavery,137-139, 175-178, 123-125
Sócrates,29, 56
Sophists,45 f., 50-59, 116
Sóphia (Wisdom),38, 50, 92, 109, 194
Sóphocles,9, 11, 34, 172, 206
Ajax,66
Antígone,34, 70, 206
Eléctra,153, 156, 207
Oêdipus Tyránnus,34, 216, 236
Philoctêtes,76
Sparta,38
Speeches in tragedy,212
Steiger,9
Stesíchorus,147
"Súnesis," 191
Superstition,43 f., 116-119, 224 f.
Swinburne,18, 185, 203
Sympathy, shift of,187 f.
Tácitus,21
Tennyson,103
Thebes,42, 149
Themístocles,37, 41 ff., 49, 169
Theophany. See Deus ex Mâchinâ
Thêseus,43, 95;
sons of,89;
in Hippolytus,87
Thesmophória. See Aristophanes
Thracians,44
Thucydides,107-110, 127-130, 170
Timótheus,30, 170
Tolstoy,168
Tradition,14;
of fifth century,15;
in tragedy,62-67, 174, 183;
in art,17
Tragedy, origin,64 f.;
ritual in, see Ritual;
essence,244 f.;
dress, etc.,75 f.;
performances,68;
"most tragic," 10, 135, 245
Translations,198 ff.
Trilogy,67
Vegetation-spirit,35, 62 ff.
Verisimilitude in art,229, 233
Verrall, A. W.,8, 101, 159, 199
Victorian age,16
"Virtue," 38, 41, 50
War Party,31, 114, 143, 166
Wars, Persian and Peloponnesian. See s.v.
Wells, H. G.,160
Whitman, W.,18
Wilamowitz,141, 199
William the Silent,35
"Wisdom," 38, 50, 92, 109, 194
Women in Athens,32 f., 84 ff.;
in Euripides,84 ff., 121-126, 137
Xûthus,121-126
Year, Old and New,62 ff.
Zeus,206
Zeûxis,170
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