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INDEX

Note: page numbers in italics indicate illustrations.

Achilles 47–9, 65–6, 223 Ettinger on 92–3, 95–6, 101,

Cixous’ identification with 49, 102–3, 110–12, 115

58, 59–60 as fascist heroine 165, 181–2

Achilles (Cook) 1–2, 47–9, Hegel on 124–5, 127–8, 143,

61– 4 158

Adams, J. 224 Irigaray on 133–8

Aeschylus 338 and kinship 95–7, 99–100, 104,

Agamemnon 189, 197–8 107–8, 110–11, 127–9

Oresteia 149–50 Lacan on 97–9, 122–33, 137–8

Prometheus Bound 275 Antigone (Anouilh):

Aggelaki-Rook, K. 372, 375 fatalism of 170–2, 173–4

Alcman 350 and Nazism 178–82

Amazons 210 n. 4, 218, 228–30, opening lines 170–1

292–3 Second World War

America 209–30 reception 166–9, 178–83

as analogy for Woman 210–11, Sophocles, comparison

212–13 with 169–78

myths and 226–30 Antigone (Sophocles) 151–3,

Whig Society 224–5 156 –8

Ames, F. 223 Anouilh, comparison

Aeneas 223 with 169–78

Anouilh, J. 166–78 opening lines 145–6, 169–70

bonheur 179–80 Apollo 149–50, 336

and political resistance 166–8 and Daphne 385–7, 390–1,

and Vichy regime 178–82 393– 4

anthropology 297–301 Apollodorus 308, 320–1

anthropomorphism: Apollonius Rhodius 280

of Nature 260–2, 264–7, 270, archaeology 83, 239

272–3 Arete 303, 313–15

in science 242–3, 247, 250, 252 Aristophanes 342–3, 349

Antigone 11, 91–112, 116, 117, Aristotle 26, 144

141–6, 156–61 artificial intelligence 276, 277, 279

Butler on 144–5, 159–6 Asclepiades 340

438 in d e x

Aske, M. 64–5 genealogical content 305–6,
Atalanta 315–16 307–10, 313–15, 320, 322
Athena 278, 313–14
atomism 241–3 gods, encounters with 320–5
Odyssey, comparison
Epicurean 241, 243–7, 249
Lucretius 269–73 with 303–4, 312–15, 320
Austin, N. 205–6 texts of 304–5
automata 277–81 Centaurs 292–3
Chanter, T. 134, 136–7
Barkan, L. 390–1 Chioles, J. 370
Barlow, J. 223 Cicero, Marcus Tullius 224
Barry, J. 334–5 Cifuentes, D. 282
Beauvoir, S. de 45–6 Cixous, H. 5, 8, 12–14,
Bernie`res, L. de 189–90
Bertgang, Zoe¨ 83, 84–5 49–50, 228
biology 233–4, 238–9, 242 n. 22, antiland 219–26
Dark Continent 209–10, 211
251 e´criture feminine 3–4, 60, 270,

Blade Runner 282 273– 4
Bluestocking Circle 331 on reader identification 49–50,
Boland, E. 353–4, 381–2, 388,
51–2, 58–61
392, 395–8 self-discovery 213–15, 217,
Bradstreet, A. 346
Brasillach, R. 181 218–19
Brodsky, J. 341 n. 21 utopianism 4
brotherhood 146–7, 148, 154–5 Clampitt, A. 392
Buci-Glucksman, C. 115 Clayton, J. 282
Bude´, G. 215–16, 217 Cle´ment, C. 217
Bulfinch, T. 226–7 Clouds (Aristophanes) 342, 343
Butler, J. 7, 93, 111, 121, 165 Clynes, M. 277
Columbus, C. 212, 216 n. 19, 229
on kinship 144–5, 159–60 Conkey, M. 239
Buxton, R. 158, 280 Conrad, J. 190
Bynum, C. W. 389 consciousness/

Carson, A. 388–9 unconsciousness 133–8
castration 22–34, 38, 39–42 psychoanalysis and 61–2
Catalogue of Women: Cook, E. 1–2, 47–9, 61–4,

authorship 304, 306 399 – 410
courtship narratives 315–17, Cooper, J. F. 226 n. 45
courtship 315–17, 318–24
318–24 Cratinus 343–4
focalization, feminine 318–25 Cronus 31, 32, 34–5, 38–41
focalization, masculine 315–18 cyborgs 281–94

feminism 287–92

index 439

Frankenstein’s monster 276, e´criture feminine 3–4, 60, 270,
277–8, 282 273– 4

Hephaestus’ automata 277–81 Eger, E. 334, 335
Oncomouse2 276–7, 290 Electra 148–9, 150–1,
Talos 275–6, 279–81
153– 6
Daly, M. 291 Electra (Euripides) 149
Daphne 382–8, 389–95, 396–8 Electra (Sophocles) 153–6
Elkins, J. 388
in Boland 388, 395–8 Ende, S. 66 n. 44
in Graham 392–5 Engelman, E. 74–6, 75, 77
daughters 148–9 Epicurus 263
Dawkins, R. 247–9
day-dreams 45, 54–5 atomism 241, 243–7, 249
De Officiis (Cicero) 224 essentialism 94
De Rerum Natura Ettinger, B. 102

(Lucretius) 254–74 After the Reapers 112–14
atomic theory 269–73 on Antigone 92–3, 95–6, 101,
death, philosophy of 264–8
individuality 264–9 102–3, 110–12
Nature, anthropomorphism Autistworks 114
Eurydice 114–15
of 260–2, 264–7, 270, 272–3 Eurydice no. 17 113
penetration 269–70 on matrixial 86–7, 94, 95–6,
death 100–3, 110, 115–17, 258
Lucretius’ philosophy of 264–8 105–12, 115–17
Demodice 321 metramorphosis 110, 115
Derrida, J. 148, 158–9 Euripides 26, 149, 321,
DeShazer, M. 346
Dick, P. K. 282 348–9, 358
dike 127, 129, 177–8 Trojan Women 195–201, 207
Dimock, G. 76, 79 Eurydice 114, 117
Dimoula, K. 371–2, 376, 377–8 Everett, E. 227
Dio Chrysostom 309–10
Diodorus 228 Faraone, C. 278, 279
Dioscurides 353 fascism 163–86
Doherty, L. 10, 46, 47, 216
Doniger, W. 307 n. 31 Antigone as fascist heroine 165,
dreams 54–5 181–2
Dupre´, J. 241–2
feminine:
Ebert, T. 288 specificity of 90, 94, 103–5
ecofeminism 291 theories of 88–90, 94

Fowler, D. 245
Fowler, R. 308, 310
Fox Keller, E. 235–7, 248, 250
Fraenkel, E. 197–8
Frankenstein (Shelley) 276, 277–8

440 in d e x

Freud, S. 70 n. 6, 121–2, 210 n. 3 Gumpert, M. 357, 369
antiquities’ collections 76–8, 78 Guyomard, P. 130–1, 132
consulting room, Vienna 74–8,
75, 77, 78 Hall, E. 343
on Cronus 31, 32, 34, 35, 38–41 Hall, J. 308–9
culture, role of 73 Halperin, D. 344
day-dreams 45, 54–5 Haraway, D. 235 n. 4, 249, 250,
delusions 84
dreams 54–5 252
on femininity 85–6
on Jensen 83–5 on cyborgs 275, 281–94
masculinity complex 43–4 Harrison, J. 68–9, 69, 71–4, 80 n.
phantasy 53–5
recapitulation theory 37 18, 81
sexual difference 22–6 Hassan, I. 282
sexuality, female 22–4, 42 Hawthorne, N. 227
sexuality, infantile 34–8 Hayles, K. 284
on Zeus 32–4 Heart of Darkness (Conrad) 190
Hegel, G. W. F. 184
Frey, H.-J. 306
Frogs (Aristophanes) 342–3 Antigone, reading of 124–5,
Fulton, A. 386 127–8, 143, 158
Furley, W. D. 336
on sexual biology 135
Gaillard, P. 182 sexual difference 143–4
Garber, M. 13 on women, subversive activity
genealogical traditions:
of 136
ancient Greek 305–6, 307–10 Helen 316–17, 356–9
women and 310–15
Gillmore, I. H. 228–9 as bitch 203–5
Gilman, C. P. 229–30 in Dimoula 371–2, 376, 377–8
Glu¨ ck, L. 385 in modern Greek
Goethe, J. W. von 158
Gold, B. 5 poetry 359–66, 367–72,
Goldhill, S. 205, 206 374 –9
Gomez, L. 66 in Panagiotopoulos 359, 367–8
Gradiva (bas relief) 81–3, 82 in Ritsos 362–5, 367–8, 369–70,
Gradiva (Jensen) 83–5
Graham, J. 381–2, 392–5 374
Grassie, W. 282
Graves, R. 328–9, 352 n. 40 in Sikelianos 359–60,
Greer, G. 12, 330–1, 352 367–8, 369

in Sinopoulos 360–2
and war 316, 317, 195–207
and weaving 201–3, 205
Helen (Euripides) 358
Hephaestus 275, 278–9
Hercules 221–2, 224–5
Herodotus 211, 226
Herzfeld, M. 355 n. 1

index 441

Hesiod 147, 148–9, 210, 211–12, in Anouilh 172–3
222–3 Irigaray on 141–3

and Catalogue 304, 323, 338 Janko, R. 304 n. 21
Hesperia 211, 216 Jarman, M. 393
Hillis Miller, J. 50–2 Jebb, R. 185
Ho¨ lderlin, F. 146 Jefferson, T. 213
Holton, G. 237 n. 9 Jensen, W 83–5
Homans, M. 384 Joseph, J. 389–90
Homer: Julien, P. 133
Jupiter 262
automata 278–9
Iliad 148, 201–5, 278, 316, 338, Kapos, M. 391
Kauffmann, A. 331, 332–3
358 Keats, J. 61–4

Odyssey 146–7, 205–7, 278, and reader identification 48–9,
303–4, 312–15, 320, 358 52, 63–5

hooliganism 142 Keegan, J. 191–2
Keith, A. 269 n. 28
identification 46–9 Kentrou-Agathopoulou, M. 376
Cixous 49–50, 51–2, 58–61 Kierkegaard, S. 157
Hillis Miller 50–2 kinship 70–1, 141–61
Keats 48–9, 52, 63–5
Antigone 95–7, 99–100, 104,
Iliad (Homer) 148, 201–5, 278, 107–8, 110–11, 127–9
316, 338, 358
brotherhood 146–7, 148, 154–5
incest 30, 105, 130–2, 146 Butler on 144–5, 159–60
Lacan on 130–1 daughters 148–9
and gender roles 150–1
Ingres, J. D. 77–81, 78 Irigaray on 144
Ion (Euripides) 26, 321 motherhood (as
introjection 52, 53, 56–7
Iphigeneia 148–9, 268–9, 372 parenthood) 149–50
sisterhood 145–6, 147–8,
‘Iphigeneia’s Wedding’
(Cook) 399–410 151– 60
sisters and brothers 149–53
Iphimedia 320–1 and social order, breakdown
Irigaray, L. 4, 5–6, 89, 91
of 33 n. 22
on Antigone 122, 133–8, 159, Kirk, G. 338
Klarer, M. 212
160 Klein, M. 52, 55–7
Kline, N. 277
on Ismene 141–3 Knights (Aristophanes) 343
on kinship 144
on (un)consciousness 133–8
Isaacs, S. 53 n. 17
Isabella of Spain 218
Isaia, N. 376–7
Ismene 100, 146, 151–3, 156–60

442 in d e x

Kofman, S. 83–4, 85 Maximus of Tyre 319, 351
Kolodny, A. 213 Medea 275–6, 280, 348, 349
Krasner, L. 72 Medea (Euripides) 348–9
Kristeva, J. 89, 91 Medea (Seneca) 216 n. 19
medicine, gender bias in 236–9
Lacan, J. 70 n. 6, 87, 102, 139 Melanippe the Wise
on Antigone 97–9, 122–33,
137–8 (Euripides) 349
on incest 130–1 Merkelbach, R. 305, 308
psychoanalysis, ethics Mestra 322–5
of 122–33, 137 metamorphosis 382–98
pur de´sir 125–33 metramorphosis 110, 115
Midgley, M. 234–5, 250–1
Lattimore, R. 204–5 Miller, M. 390
Laubreaux, A. 180–1 Miller, P. A. 127
Lazarus, E. 220–1 More, T. 214, 215, 217
Lefkowitz, M. R. 310 n. 38 motherhood 149–50
Leonard, M. 4, 58 Mott, L. 228–9
Levinson, M. 64 Muses 222–3, 327–54
Lewontin, R. 239 n. 14
Library (Apollodorus) 308, 320–1 contests with 345–6
Likierman, M. 57 Graves on 328–9
Loraux, N. 124, 125–6, 337–8 Greer on 330–1
loss 264–8, 339 modern paradigm 327–9
Lucian 309 paintings of 331, 332–5,
Lucretius 238 n. 10
333
atomism 269–73
De Rerum Natura 254–74 Perry on 332
on Epicurean atomism 241, re-visioning by women 346–8
and religion 336–7
243–7, 249 Myrsiades, K. 364
Lyons, D. 309 mythographers:
Lysistrata (Aristophanes) 349 classical 278–81
cyborg 277, 281–3

McAlpine, K. 346 Nagel, T. 252
McLachlan, J. 224 Nazism 178–82
McLeish, K. 342, 343 New World 216
McWilliams, J. 223, 225 n. 45
Malvern, S. 347 as analogy for Woman 210–11,
Martin, E. 236–7 212–13
Martindale, C. 165–6, 387
matrixial paradigm 86–7, 94, discovery of 212–13
and Hesperia 216
95–6, 105–12, 115–17 location of 221–2
Newton, I. 241 n. 19

index 443

Odyssey (Homer) 146–7, 205–7, Pound, E. 382
278, 358 Powers, R. 282
primatology 238–9, 257
Catalogue, comparison projection 52, 53, 56
with 303–4, 312–15, 320 Prometheus Bound

Odysseus 146–7, 223, 303, 317 (Aeschylus) 275
Oedipus 9, 26, 38, 131, 132, 152 Prose, F. 341
Oedipus and the Sphinx psychoanalysis 94–5, 122

(Ingres) 77–81, 78 introjection 52, 53, 56–7
Oedipus complex 27–9, 30–1, 88 Lacan’s ethics of 122–33, 137
Oncomouse2 276–7, 290 literature and early childhood 52
oral traditions 306–7, 308 and mythology 34–6
projection 52, 56
men’s 301, 302–3 recapitulation theory 37
women’s 297–303, 311 see also Freud, S.
Oresteia (Aeschylus) 149–50 Pythais festival, Athens 336
Orestes 149–51 Pytine (Cratinus) 343–4
Orestes (Euripides) 358
Ostriker, A. 385 Rabate´, J.-M. 131–2
Otherness 210 n. 4, 218 Ramayana 301–2
Ranshoff, R. 76
Padel, R. 386 reader identification 46–9
pain 101–2
Paine, T. 225 & n. 45 Cixous 49–50, 51–2, 58–61
Palatine Anthology 352, 353 Hillis Miller 50–2
Panagiotopoulos, I. M. 359 Keats 48–9, 52, 63–5
Partheneion (Alcman) 350 reading 57, 66, 274 n. 33
Pastan, L. 384–5 recapitulation theory 37
pathosformel 79 reception 10–12, 13–14, 47,
Peacock, J. 73–4
penis envy 25–6, 41–2 165– 6
Perry, G. 332 Anouilh’s Antigone 182–6
Peter Martyr 227, 229 Second World War 166–9,
phantasy 53–6
physics 239–43 178–83
Plath, S. 382–4 Reinhold, M. 225
Plato 344–5 Resistance movement 166–8, 182
Plutarch 350–1
Pollock, G. 138 and Anouilh’s Antigone 167–8,
Pollux (Julius Pollux) 338–9
Polybius 190–1, 194 178
Poseidon 313, 320, 323–4
post-structuralism 4 n. 5, 7, 8–9 Reynolds, J. 331, 332
Rhea 41
Rhesus (pseudo-

Euripidean) 339–40
Rich, A. 226

444 in d e x

Richard, C. 224 sisterhood 145–6, 147–8, 151,
Ritsos, Y. 362–5, 366–70, 371, 152– 60

374, 379 Socrates 143–4
Robinson, C. 373 n. 28 Sophocles:
Romm, J. 214–15
Rose, S. 233–4, 242 n. 22, 249 Antigone 124–5, 127–8, 145–6,
Rush, B. 225 151–3, 156–8, 169–78
Rutherford, I. 310 n. 38, 312, 315
Electra 153–6
Sade, Marquis de 101 Thamyras 338–9
Samuel, R. 333–5, 333, 347 n. 31 Stallings, A. E. 386–7
Sappho 332–3, 350–4 Stanton, E. C. 228–9 & n. 58
Sarton, M. 342, 347 Steiner, G. 145–6, 163
Sartre, J.-P. 168 n. 19 Stone, L. 228–9
Schatten, G. & H. 236, 237 structuralism 4 n. 5
Schiebinger, L. 237, 238–9, 243, subjectivity 101–2
Sulter, M. 347
251 Symposium (Plato) 344–5

science 233–52 Talos 275–6, 279–81
anthropomorphism in 242–3, Terminator film 276
247, 250, 252 Thamyris (Sophocles) 338–9
Thamyris 338–40, 345–6
Sedley, D. 268 n. 26, 269 Tocqueville, A. de 222
Seferis, G. 365–6 Todorov, T. 218 n. 24
Segal, C. 258, 268 n. 26, 389 Trojan Women
Seneca 216 n. 19
Serres, M. 282 (Euripides) 195–201, 207
Servius 309, 319 Turing, A. 277
Sexton, A. 388 Turing test 276
sexual difference 10–11, 93–4, Tyrell, W. B. 215
Tyro 312–13, 320
138 Tziovas, D. 366–7

Freud on 22–6 Uranus 31, 32, 34, 41
sexuality: utopia 214–17

female 22–4, 42 Van Dyck, K. 373
infantile 34–8 Van Haute, P. 127
Shapcott, J. 386 Vespucci, A. 212
Sharrock, A. 329 Vichy regime 167–8, 178–82
Shelley, M. 276, 277–8 Vickers, N. 13
Shiach, M. 60 Vidal-Naquet, P. 183–4
Shoah 112–14
Sikelianos, A. 359–60
Sinopoulos, T. 360–2, 367–8

index 445

Waldman, A. 385 Wilkes, W. 334
Warburg, A. 73, 79 Wilson, L. H. 351–2
warfare 189–207 Witt, M.-A. 182
Wittig, M. 1, 2
language of, and atomism 245 women’s traditions 297–302
women, as cause of 191,
oral genres 297, 300–3
194–204, 207 Woolf, V. 67–71, 163–4, 340–1,
women’s exclusion from 190–2
Weinberg, S. 241 382
West, M. L. 304, 305, 306, 307–8, Harrison and 68–9, 71–2
Works and Days (Hesiod) 147
315
Zajko, V. 4
Whig Society, America 224–5 Zeus 31–4, 39–40
White, G. 346 Zimmerman, M. 227–8
Whitman, W. 228
Wiener, N. 277