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TEXT AND STAGE-ACTION IN E. HF 1218

TEXT AND STAGE-ACTION IN E. HF 1218 720 MISCELLANEA My point in mentioning this is that if mi‹stor ’ in Eu. 177 refers to Hades, signf. I would be strange in this context, because Hades, being Hades, cannot really be regarded as a ‘crime-stained wretch’—one who pollutes others or incurs pollution: Hades, the m¡gaw . . . eëyunow brotÇn of Eu. 273, falls outside that conceptual pattern. If so, mi‹stor ’ in 177 must refer to an unnamed human person , who would incur more pollution by killing Orestes in turn. In Ch. 944 the polluted pair of Clytaemestra and Aegisthus are called mi‹storew ( duoÝn miastñroin ) because they killed Agamemnon and Cassandra. By killing the former pair, Orestes took on him the mÛasma , becoming mi‹stvr himself. In the same way, the alleged killer of Orestes ( §teron . . . mi‹- stor ’, 176-7) will then become a mi‹stvr in his turn. Accordingly, one who kills to avenge a crime acts as an avenger, but in carrying out the mur- der (his action of revenge) he incurs pollution ¤n k‹r& aêtoè , becoming himself polluted: killing and pollution are interconnected notions, the Ž rst entailing the second. GR - 15342 ag. paraskeve http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

TEXT AND STAGE-ACTION IN E. HF 1218

Prauscello, Lucia; Telò, Mario
Mnemosyne , Volume 55 (6): 720 – Jan 1, 2002
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© 2002 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0026-7074
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10.1163/156852502320880230
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720 MISCELLANEA My point in mentioning this is that if mi‹stor ’ in Eu. 177 refers to Hades, signf. I would be strange in this context, because Hades, being Hades, cannot really be regarded as a ‘crime-stained wretch’—one who pollutes others or incurs pollution: Hades, the m¡gaw . . . eëyunow brotÇn of Eu. 273, falls outside that conceptual pattern. If so, mi‹stor ’ in 177 must refer to an unnamed human person , who would incur more pollution by killing Orestes in turn. In Ch. 944 the polluted pair of Clytaemestra and Aegisthus are called mi‹storew ( duoÝn miastñroin ) because they killed Agamemnon and Cassandra. By killing the former pair, Orestes took on him the mÛasma , becoming mi‹stvr himself. In the same way, the alleged killer of Orestes ( §teron . . . mi‹- stor ’, 176-7) will then become a mi‹stvr in his turn. Accordingly, one who kills to avenge a crime acts as an avenger, but in carrying out the mur- der (his action of revenge) he incurs pollution ¤n k‹r& aêtoè , becoming himself polluted: killing and pollution are interconnected notions, the Ž rst entailing the second. GR - 15342 ag. paraskeve

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Published: Jan 1, 2002

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