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Euripides, Medea, 1162


ἄψυχον εἰκὼ προσγελῶσα σώματος.and set the golden crown about her tresses, arranging her hair at her bright mirror, with many a happy smile at her breathless counterfeit. Then rising from her seat she passed across the chamber, tripping lightly on her fair white foot


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1. Homer, Iliad, 6.389, 22.460 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

6.389. /fair-tressed Trojan women are seeking to propitiate the dread goddess; but she went to the great wall of Ilios, for that she heard the Trojans were sorely pressed, and great victory rested with the Achaeans. So is she gone in haste to the wall, like one beside herself; and with her the nurse beareth the child. 22.460. /So saying she hasted through the hall with throbbing heart as one beside herself, and with her went her handmaidens. But when she was come to the wall and the throng of men, then on the wall she stopped and looked, and was ware of him as he was dragged before the city; and swift horses
2. Euripides, Electra, 108, 175-180, 184-185, 239, 241, 302-311, 107 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

107. ἀλλ' — εἰσορῶ γὰρ τήνδε προσπόλον τινά
3. Euripides, Hecuba, 924-925, 923 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Euripides, Medea, 1056-1080, 112-113, 1136-1139, 114, 1140-1161, 1163-1189, 119, 1190-1199, 120, 1200-1209, 121, 1210-1230, 1234-1250, 1271-1272, 1277-1278, 1284-1285, 1288-1289, 1317-1414, 144-145, 148-153, 16, 160-167, 17-21, 214-215, 22, 225, 23, 230-251, 255-256, 263-266, 285-286, 305, 324, 351-354, 368, 378-380, 389, 39, 390-391, 395-398, 40, 401-409, 44, 759-763, 791-810, 9, 960-963, 969-973, 976-990, 10 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. to slay their father and come to live here in the land of Corinth with her husband and children, where her exile found favour with the citizens to whose land she had come, and in all things of her own accord was she at one with Jason, the greatest safeguard thi
5. Euripides, Orestes, 1112 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1112. They are only fit to look after mirrors and perfumes! Pylade
6. Euripides, Trojan Women, 1001-1059, 1070, 1096, 987-1000 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1000. did you ever raise, though Castor was still alive, a vigorous youth, and his brother also, not yet among the stars? Then when you had come to Troy , and the Argives were on your track, and the mortal combat had begun, whenever tidings came to you of
7. Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, 1.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



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achilles tatius Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
acilius, friend of brutus Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
ambiguous (equivocal), word or phrase Fortenbaugh, Aristotle's Practical Side: On his Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Rhetoric (2006) 89
body, human, in antiquity, and feminism Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 47
body, human, in antiquity, female Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
body, human, in antiquity, in athens Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
body, human, in antiquity, in greek tragedy Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
brutus, and portia Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
captive melanippe Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 685
commodification Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 44, 45, 48
death Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 45
diodorus siculus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 685
efficient cause Fortenbaugh, Aristotle's Practical Side: On his Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Rhetoric (2006) 89
electra Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 48
emotion Fortenbaugh, Aristotle's Practical Side: On his Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Rhetoric (2006) 89
euripides Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 47, 48
female body Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
gate Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
hair Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 45, 47, 48
hector Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
hephaestus Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
homer Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
image Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 685
imagination Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
kelly, a. xxii Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 74, 75
laughter Fortenbaugh, Aristotle's Practical Side: On his Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Rhetoric (2006) 89
literary sources for the humanbody in antiquity, greek Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
mannerism, laughter Fortenbaugh, Aristotle's Practical Side: On his Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Rhetoric (2006) 89
medea Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 74, 75; Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
mirror image Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
myth, mythical, mythological Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
mêchanê Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 685
narcissism Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 46, 47
narrator, narratorial Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
naïskos/oi Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 685
painting Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
pleasure, involvement in emotion Fortenbaugh, Aristotle's Practical Side: On his Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Rhetoric (2006) 89
portia (porcia) Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
rome, city Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
rückblickszenen Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 74
scaean gates Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
skin colour Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 44
smiling Fortenbaugh, Aristotle's Practical Side: On his Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Rhetoric (2006) 89
statue, female response to Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
structures, literary Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
tickle Fortenbaugh, Aristotle's Practical Side: On his Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Rhetoric (2006) 89
tragedy, greek' Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 45
tragedy, greek Montserrat, Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1998) 44, 46, 47, 48
trendall, a.d. Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 685
troy Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
viewer Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231
women Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 231