Agamemnon Libation Bearers Eumenides

Animal Animal Animal

3 dog 252 coils, viper 178 flying viper
38 ox 260 nestling 192 lion’s cave
54 vultures 262 eagle and brood 194 flock, herdsman, she hound
118 eagle 487 nestlings 255ff. vampire
141 lion, cubs 514 snake 325 whelp Apollo
151 eagles 537 I turn serpent 493 venom of their pride
604 watchdog 596 Scylla
714 lion cub 605 ruthless bitch
779 flock 784 colt
810 mare, foals 914 You are the snake More Notes
813 lion 987 moray eel, viper Robes
887 watchdog 1047 serpents (1) Metaphor; e.g., ‘nets of
913 peacock 1053 hounds justice’
980 wings (2) Metonymy (part for
1049 swallow Notes whole); e.g. Cassandra
1066 bridle Two Ways of Studying the strips off her prophet’s
1128 bull Pattern of Imagery: robes and symbols of her
1144 nightingale (1) Thematically (this page) office (wand)
1166 fang (2) In the order they appear
1232 lion Distinguish Explanation for Studying
1237 hellhound (1) Off-stage acts: killing is Imagery in order of
1244 Scylla always off-stage, and appearance: Metaphors and
1273 lioness, wolf, lion king then reported on-stage Metonymies are not decorative
1321 beast (2) On-stage acts; e.g. but essential to the conceptual
1440 beast display of bodies; structure, and the dramatic
1473 swan display of robes structure, of Oresteia.
1500 raven
1697 dogs
1706 cock Net, strap, robes, weave, snare,
yoke
Net, strap, robes, weave, snare, 221 net Net, strap, robes, weave, snare,
yoke 251 Zeus eagle feather yoke
217 strap of fate 252 coils, viper 116 thick of your nets
361 slung your net 479 all-embracing net 148 slipped from the nets
520, 894, 951 yoke 493-4 corks to the net 305 spell…chains of song
947 weaving 970 shroud 336 bind the world
1047 nets of doom 990 snare, sheath, winding sheet, 350 pious white robes
1071 yoke of fate tent, net 373 black robes swarming
1116 net 640-43 tent robes, web 474 handsome net
1117 snare 1038 Furies in blood-red robes
1129 traps him (Greek 10028: phoinikobaptos =
1235 yoke purple-dyed: Murex, sea—shell,
1280 yoke royalty only; see Agamemnon
1287 Seer’s robes 900, 943)
1394-5 rig the nets
1402 all-embracing net
1404 robes of doom
1520 black widow’s web
1545 black widow’s web
1610 Furies’ tangling robes
1671-2 yoke…colt
Justice
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Justice 796 blood of Justice Justice
250, 385, 902, 1001, 1430, 1459, 229
1564-5, 1589, 1635 weaves,
1639, 1643 nets of justice,

Path
932 Fate’s rough path
picture 1332-3 Weapon
ship of state 1013 Charioteer 235 edge blunted
male / female 13 1019 681 arrows (= arguments)

Plant blood
264 dynastic tree 278 blood sleeps
279 stain washing clean

runner
387

water
517 lethal tide
814 raining

scales
539 strike the balance

ship
561 strike his sails

plants
670 shoots…roots
671 root them in her soil

wine
burning wine of strife

spell
912 spell…to sing

Pan 955
[26 Pentheus]