Other Figures — Minor Figures

48 figures from Greek Tragedy who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Kilissa

nurse of Orestes · first appears Aeschylus, The Libation-Pourers — Scene 6

Aeschylus, The Libation-Pourers — Scene 6 · ward: Orestes “But as for dear Orestes, my sweet charge, Whom from his mother I received and nursed.... And then the shrill cries rousing me o' nights. And many and unprofitable toils For me who bore them. For one needs must rear The heedless infant like an animal, (How can it else be?) as his humour serves.”
Aeschylus, The Libation-Pourers — Scene 6 · employer: Clytemnestra “Our mistress bids me with all speed to call Ægisthos to the strangers, that he come And hear more clearly, as a man from man, This newly-brought report.”

prince · first appears Sophocles, Electra — Scene 1

Sophocles, Electra — Scene 1 · friends with Aegisthus “Another Phocian prince, named Phanoteus, was a friend of Aegisthus.”
Sophocles, Electra — Scene 3 · with Orestes “Phanoteus the Phocian, with a charge of weight. CLY. Declare it, stranger. Coming from a friend, Thou bring'st us friendly tidings, I feel sure. OLD M. Orestes' death. Ye have the sum in brief.”

nymph · first appears Euripides, Helen — Scene 3

Euripides, Helen — Scene 3 · with Zeus “Happy Calisto, thou Arcadian nymph / Who didst ascend the couch of Jove, transformed / To a four-footed savage”

mortal · first appears Aeschylus, Eumenides — Scene 5

Aeschylus, Eumenides — Scene 5 · patron: Zeus “And did my father then in purpose err, Then the first murderer he received, Ixion?”

goddess · first appears Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 6

Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 6 · with Zeus “I too have both been borne aloft through song, and having very much handled arguments have found nothing more powerful than Necessity: nor is there any cure in the Thracian tablets which Orpheus wrote, nor among those medicines, which Phœbus gave the sons of Æsculapius, dispensing them to wretched mortals. But neither to the altars nor to the image of this Goddess alone, is it lawful to approach, she hears not victims. Do not, O revered one, come on me more severe, than hitherto in my life. For Jove, whatever he have assented to, with thee brings this to pass.”
Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 6 · with Admetus “And thee, Admetus, the Goddess hath seized in the inevitable grasp of her hand”