On the ‘Eye’ and the ‘Phallos’ and Other Permutabilities, in Oedipus Rex

Chapters in this book

1. I-VI I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. Epic and Lyric Poetry
5. Originality and Intentionality 3
6. “A Thousand Shapes of Death”: Heroic Immortality in the Iliad 12
7. Is Hector androphonos? 19
8. Form und Funktion des Weltaltermythos bei Hesiod 25
9. Sappho’s Circumstances 33
10. Sappho and Acheron 40
11. Kynaithos, Polycrates, and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo 53
12. Pindar’s Myths: Two Pragmatic Explanations 63
13. καὶ κείνοις: Pindar, Nemean 5.22 71
14. Poetry as Pharmakon in Theocritus’ Idyll 2 81
15. Drama
16. O suitably – attired-in-leather-boots. Interpolations in Greek Tragedy 91
17. Attossa’s Absence in the Final Scene of the Persae of Aeschylus 101
18. A Problem of Attribution at Aeschylus Supplices 1055: Stephanus’ Source 109
19. Recognizing what when and why? The Recognition Scene in Aeschylus’ Choephori 115
20. Yielding to Forethought: Sophocles’ Ajax 122
21. On the ‘Eye’ and the ‘Phallos’ and Other Permutabilities, in Oedipus Rex 130
22. Sophocles, Electra 1087; Text and Context 134
23. A Note on Lions and Sophocles, Philoctetes 144
24. Solar Imagery and Tragic Heroism in Euripides’ Hippolytus 151
25. Helen and Persephone, Sparta and Demeter. The ‘Demeter Ode’ in Euripides’ Helen 162
26. Iphigeneia in Love 173
27. Sacrificial Ritual in the Bacchae 181
28. “Let Them Eat Cakes” – Three Food Notes to Aristophanes’ Peace 191
29. Boy Actors in New Comedy 199
30. Optatives of Consent and Refusal 209
31. Society and History
32. Hero Cult in the ‘Age of Homer’ and Earlier 219
33. The Athenian Law against Hybris 229
34. Polis Tyrannos: Zur Entstehung einer politischen Metapher 237
35. Leonidas the Regicide? Speculations on the death of Kleomenes I 253
36. Imperialism and Stasis in Fifth Century B.C. Ionia. A Frontier Redefined 261
37. Thucydides 2.65.12 269
38. The Arche of Thucydides’ War 272
39. Poseidon Hippios am Kolonos und die athenischen Hippeis 280
40. Greek Rhetoric and History: the Case of Isocrates 290
41. Antigonus Surnamed Gonatas 299
42. A Metrical Epitaph from Phrygia 308
43. Philosophy
44. “Nothing” as “Not-Being”: Some Literary Contexts That Bear on Plato 319
45. Stars, Unseen Bodies and the Extent of the Earth in Anaxagoras’ Cosmogony: Three Problems and Their Simultaneous Solution 330
46. Justice and Temperance in Republic IV 336
47. Socrates’ Prayer to Pan 345
48. The Acquiring of Philosophical Knowledge According to Plato’s Seventh Letter 354
49. How Credible are Plato’s Myths? 364
50. Theophrastus on Fate and Character 372
51. History and Philosophy in Plutarch. Observations on Plutarch’s Lycurgus 376
52. Plutarch as Molten Bronze: the Comparison at Amatorius 752D 383
53. Themistius, The Last Peripatetic Commentator on Aristotle? 391
54. Xenophon of Ephesus and the Antithesis Historia-Philosophia 401
55. Aftermath
56. Some Loose Ends. A Metrical Note on Horace’s Satires 409
57. Horaz II 13 413
58. Seneca’s Medea: The Elusive Triumph of Civilization 419
59. Kaltblütiges Schnarchen. Zum literarischen Hintergrund der Vesuv-Briefe des jüngeren Plinius 427
60. A New Papyrus Codex of the Sortes Astrampsychi 434
61. Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Planudes and Ausonians 440
62. Marginalia Utopica. Acht Bemerkungen zur Utopie des Thomas Morus (1478–1978) 447
63. Plates
64. List of Plates 462
65. 470-472 470