Index
Abaris
367–377
abduction
100–102, 382, 389
compared to induction and deduction
100n3, 102
creative
110, 114, 116
in Aelian
211–212
in Aeschines
108–109
in Herodotus
104–106
in Homer
249–250, 252
in Mesopotamian extispicy
113
in Scrofani
199–200
in Thucydides
382
Peirce’s definition of
101
Achilles Tatius
152
Aeacus
67, 294, 352–353, 374, 378
Aelian
137, 196n1, 209–213, 225, 229, 231, 248, 325
Aeschines
79n6, 87, 107–110, 123, 164–165, 343–345
Aeschylus
86–86, 94–95, 129, 137, 170, 175–178, 232, 241, 261, 300, 308–309, 348, 366
Aesop
96, 99
agency
15–17, 47, 65, 117, 208, 215–217, 221, 228–229, 364, 385, 389
paradigm
18–20, 22, 34, 80, 215–217, 221–225, 228, 268
detection device (and HADD)
53–55, 215, 227
divine
6, 42, 42n8, 47, 80, 82–85, 89–90, 99, 105–106, 108–109, 185–186, 214–217, 224, 250, 299, 312, 322, 329, 341n26, 381, 390–391
disaster
157, 175, 202, 218, 222–223, 225, 231, 372
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
19, 216, 217n3
moral
216, 219, 224
Poseidon’s
228, 232, 240, 247–249, 252, 391
Ajax
68, 70, 239–240, 344
Alcmaeon
94
amēchania
5, 8, 23, 124, 256, 270, 278, 302, 351, 369, 385
Ammianus Marcellinus
234, 321
Amyot, Jacques
135n2, 149–152, 158–160, 184
analogy
28, 50, 116, 199, 201, 212, 286–289, 293, 382, 389–390
animism
52–53
anthropomorphism
52–56, 117, 215–216, 390
Antiphon
98
Alcinous
92–93, 195, 247–252
Aphrodite
240
Apollo
225, 230, 236–238, 283, 302–303, 317–325, 338
divines disaster
316, 319, 326
in exile
308
plague
195, 231, 341n16, 342n32, 347, 350, 354, 359, 361, 363, 381
Oracle at Delphi (Pythian)
7, 107–109, 203n24, 226, 327, 342n35, 351, 353, 359, 361-
363
374, 377, 380–381
Apollodorus
234, 240, 297n16, 320n32, 349–352, 355
Apollonius of Rhodes
92, 237, 247n43, 272–272, 275–284, 299n21, 307–308, 319, 325, 342, 377
Apollonius of Tyana
31, 378
apocalypse
15, 127, 145–146, 181, 264, 279, 284, 289–290
aprosdokēton
124, 146, 151, 373, 390
Aristotle
86–87, 148n3, 206, 209, 236n18, 237n22, 320, 325, 375–376
Artemis
185, 231, 317, 319–320, 347–348, 362
astrology
25, 71, 116, 118, 132–133, 204
Chaldaean
118–120, 149
Egyptian
120–121
hard and soft
114–115, 118–124, 134
in Hesiod
116–117
in Ptolemy
122–124, 135, 151
in Shakespeare
133–134, 138–141
Mesopotamian
112–113, 118
Athena
83–84, 97, 136, 178, 180, 225, 230–231, 246, 272, 277–278, 344, 345n43, 374n34
and Enceladus
181, 240–241
and Typhoeus
297–300
Tritogeneia
282
Athens
164, 170, 178, 245n39, 260, 344, 349, 352–353
plague at
313, 360–361, 374–376
Atlantis
29, 197, 321
atomic bomb
15, 217, 264
atuchia
150, 159, 162, 164–166, 168, 187–189
Augustine
on chance
158
on disaster
165–166, 171
on signs
58n3, 62–64
bastardy
88, 128, 138–141, 183, 347
battle
77, 162, 168, 245–246, 249n48, 279–280, 342, 368
of Cannae
163, 165–168, 187
of Chaeronea
107, 163–165, 277n15
of gods
240–242, 291–293, 296–297
of Lade
40–41, 58, 103, 363
of Leuctra
121, 209, 213–214
of Mykale
97
of Plataea
87, 129, 177–178
of Salamis
129, 176, 177–178
of Zama
327–328
Bible. See Hebrew Bible and New Testament
bird
52, 61, 64, 70, 276, 294
doves
68, 272, 388
eagle
54, 70, 81, 84, 279–280
omens. See ornithomancy
owl
46, 79
sounds of
79, 294, 388
‘twins are birds’
27
vulture
84n20
Blanchot, M.
1, 143–145, 159, 244, 255, 384
Boyer, P.
52, 54n42, 55n45, 89, 102
Bremmer, J.N.
47–48, 228n3, 292–230
Burkert, W.
30, 48, 50, 54–55, 57n2, 110, 228n3, 292–232, 340, 343, 367, 374–375
calamitas
153–158, 162, 166
Calchas
10, 31, 69, 82, 92, 249n48, 338, 345, 354–355, 360, 379
Callimachus
241, 243, 261, 316, 318–319, 322n36, 325, 344, 347–348
capture. See sack
Cassius Dio
on human vs. divine disaster
168
on death of Agrippa
45–46
on death of Caesar
136
on disaster at Cannae
165–167
on Vesuvius eruption
284–289, 292n9
casus
153, 155, 157–159, 161–162, 171, 341
causation
114–115
Cato
153–154
chaos
223, 229–230, 234n17, 235, 256, 273, 276, 283–284, 287–291, 294–297, 301–305, 313, 317, 327, 356
Charybdis
272, 274–275, 276
Cicero
on divination
37, 46, 65–66, 69–70, 79, 112–113, 119–123, 132, 198n14, 375
on disaster
132, 151, 154n18, 157, 165–167, 171, 184, 334, 341
Circe
92–93, 245, 272
clades
153–156, 158, 162, 166
cleromancy
64, 66
Clytemnestra
94–95, 99
cognition
18, 28–29, 57, 58, 74, 102n9, 115, 201, 208, 215, 227, 389
and divination
25, 50, 267
and uncertainty
22, 49
Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR)
52–56, 89, 110, 215
comet
46, 62, 84, 119, 121, 131, 209, 213
Caesar’s
134, 136
Halley’s
133, 135
COVID-19
14–15, 31, 333, 335, 356, 384–388
cyclone. See hurricane
daimōn
147–148, 158, 169, 184
in Empedocles
309–310
of Socrates
79
Darius
in Aeschylus
176–178
in Herodotus
43, 106
Demeter
237
Demosthenes
107–110, 164, 344–345, 349
Derrida, J.
141–146, 151–152, 157, 179, 368
Detienne, M.
91, 273, 305, 317, 325
on analyzing Greek gods
231–232
Diodorus Siculus
on astrology
118–122
on comet
209, 213
on disaster
350–351, 352–353, 355, 378
on Gigantomachy
240
on Helike disaster
196, 201–204, 214, 224–227, 231–232, 240, 390
on natural vs. divine causes
207–208
on Trojan disaster
350–351
Dionysus
361
and earthquakes
230–231
as mantis
67n21
disaster
anthropogenic
16–17, 168, 172–173, 341–342, 390
banality of
265–267
complex
15, 173, 341
culture
21
dancing with
17–18
defining
11–13, 19, 23, 25, 146, 185, 261–262, 337, 370, 390
etymology of
24–25, 138–141, 144–145, 153, 158–162
geographicalness of
261, 267–270, 282–289, 305–309, 317
global
12, 15, 118–119, 171, 264–265, 284, 288, 291, 374, 386. See also apocalypse
hermeneutic disaster management
24, 124, 209–214, 225–227, 228–229, 251, 260–261, 265–267, 270, 303, 337–338, 340, 354, 363
in the sun
130–134, 137, 141, 178–180, 182–185, 186, 188, 235
lists
6–7, 119–121, 169, 172–175, 202, 276–277, 371, 390
movies
258–265
sky
145, 278
studies
11–14, 18–22, 158, 170, 215
triad (plague, famine, war)
171, 304, 334, 340–348
disease
1–2, 69, 122, 153, 157, 171, 173, 224n33, 311, 341, 346, 348, 352, 357, 381–382, 384
agricultural
154, 350
falling (epilepsy)
132n12
of gods
306, 308–309
of Io
309
pestilential
358, 362, 368–372. See also plague
Protean
335–340, 368, 372
textually transmitted
383
divination
and chance
64–65, 157–158, 328
and cognition
29, 49–50, 52–54
and ritual
48–49
as semiotic practice
11, 47–48, 60–62
definitions of
10, 46–51
divinatory paradigm
60–62, 72–73, 74, 100, 205
inspired (or natural) vs. technical
65–73, 77–78, 114, 375
Mesopotamian
39, 62, 112–113, 117–118, 226
oracular
7, 44, 50, 63–69, 77, 92, 108, 226, 327–328, 340–345, 353–354, 358–362, 365-366, 374–375, 377, 379–381
typology of
62, 70–71, 120
dreams. See oneiromancy
earthquake
11, 45, 132, 206, 286, 361, 376
Ammianus Marcellinus on
321
animals anticipating
210, 210n43
as metaphor
179–180
as omen or sign
5, 10, 44, 63–64, 105, 136n23, 173–175, 213
Charles Darwin on
263
culture (Japan)
21, 217–219
Delian
43–44, 64, 73, 105–106, 174–175, 209, 213, 320–321
gods associated with
229–232, 260, 263
Haitian
21n64
Helike
16, 196, 202–206, 214, 224–225, 234
in disaster list
1–2, 119, 121, 161, 169, 171n5, 172
in Homer
233–234, 238
Lisbon
145n45, 222–223
movie
258, 263–264
on relief from Pompeii
263
on Rhodes
16, 189, 318, 321, 327
Pausanias on
209, 227
San Francisco
216, 219–220
Seneca on
208–209, 221
Willkommene Erdbeben
174
eclipse
anthropomorphized
53
as intuitive-knowledge-domain violation
89–90
as metaphor
287
causing plague
378
in Chaldaean astrology
119
in Pindar
4–8, 16, 63
in Thucydides
172–175
in Shakespeare
130, 134, 137–138
poetry
24
Eco, U.
101n7, 102, 110
eco-catastrophe
16n43, 388
ecocriticism
definitions of
14–15
value for disaster discourse
16–18, 388
ecosemiotics
17, 58n5, 272, 389
in mythology
256, 275, 276, 292, 298, 300, 317
Empedocles
curing plague
376–378
poem on the soul
309–311
Epimenides
374–377
Erasmus
rediscovers catastrophe
132–133
translator of Plutarch
147–148
eris. See strife
Etna
16, 94n30, 136n23, 198–200, 241
exile
anticipating disaster as
151
Apollo in
308
Hephaestus in
308
Heracles in
183, 310
Hermes in
302
in Empedocles
309–311
in Thucydides
172
Prometheus in
308–309
extispicy
113
famine
15. See also disaster triad
as offspring of Eris
342
as part of King David’s dilemma
367–369
as part of Peloponnesian War prophecy
379–380
associated with plague
340–343
in Athens
352–355
in Hesiod’s wicked city
343
on Crete
364–365
flood
as punishment
221
Buffalo Creek
269
culture (the Netherlands)
21, 155, 193
Great Flood
29, 264
in astrology
118, 121–123
in disaster lists
161, 169
in Homer
237
in Pindar
6, 16
Fontenrose, J.
342, 352–353, 359, 366, 374n35
Freud, S.
1–4, 12, 18, 23, 30, 61, 386
geomythology
29–30, 30n94
Gigantomachy
180, 240–242, 287–288
Greece
disaster affecting all of
352–353, 359, 361, 378
rationality of
28–29
Gumpert, M.
143–146, 290, 301, 340, 381
Hades
92, 180–181, 183, 204, 234–235, 282–283
Hebrew Bible
29–30, 72n27, 216, 269, 342n36, 367–370
Hephaestus
273, 295n11, 296, 298, 302, 308, 315
Hera
42n8, 178–179, 184–185, 297–300, 308, 312, 320, 325, 349
Heracles
178–185, 188, 244, 271, 278, 310, 313, 316
wrestling sea-deity
338, 364
Heraclitus
68–69, 77
Hermes
245, 303–303, 313–315, 361
Herodotus
40–46, 51, 58, 63, 65, 66, 73, 78, 86, 87n26, 97, 103–110, 117, 158, 170, 174–178, 199, 204–205, 226, 237n21, 271, 322, 326, 346, 362–367, 389
Hesiod
6, 93, 116n, 128, 159n32, 226
bones of
361
Theogony
30n94, 235, 240n28, 244, 256, 290–311
Works and Days
88, 116–117, 304n1, 306n6, 311, 343–347, 36368
Hewitt, K.
13n32, 15n42, 20, 193, 267–268, 272n2
hieromancy
70, 71, 79, 93
Hippocrates
79
and plague
378
Prorrhetic, 27
98
historiography
42–43, 160
cognitive historiography
52n32
new historicism
32
rhetorical historiography
165, 381
Homer
76, 85, 92, 98, 110–111, 114, 116n28, 159, 179, 210–212, 228–229, 232–233, 297n17
Homeric simile
83–84, 279n21, 280, 293–294, 296–297
Iliad
31, 70, 83–84, 85, 91, 92, 93, 159–160, 161n39, 224, 233–239, 244–247, 249n48, 279–280, 293–297, 302, 307, 308, 342, 344n39, 345, 354, 358
Odyssey
80, 84n20, 91, 92, 93, 136, 210–211, 235, 239–240, 242–252, 272–274, 277–278, 280, 296, 298n19, 302, 307, 323–325, 339, 344n39
Homeric Hymns
to Apollo (= HH 3)
85, 92, 297–298, 308, 323–324
to Aphrodite (= HH 5)
244, 301–302, 307
to Athena (= HH 28)
298
to Demeter (= HH 2)
180n24, 237
to the Dioscuri (= HH 33)
324
to Hermes (= HH 4)
72, 96, 302
to Selene (= HH 32)
91–92, 115
Huet, M-H.
16n44, 138n25, 145n43, 153n15, 223, 291, 336–337
hurricane
3–4, 14–15, 19–20, 217–218, 223, 326
Bessie
217
Harvey
22n69, 222
Irma
222, 225
Florence
9–10, 31
Katrina
18–19, 171n5, 215–216, 218, 221
Matthew
217–218
Tracy
266
hybridity
85, 89, 139–140, 300, 356
icon
59, 68, 76, 85, 102–103, 113, 251, 281, 328, 380–382
index
57n2, 59–60, 68, 73, 75–76, 82–85, 89–91, 94–100, 105, 110, 114, 117, 184, 199, 251, 268, 279, 281, 328, 375, 391
inferential reasoning
66, 74–77, 99, 100–106, 111–112, 123, 199, 226, 247. See also abduction
intentionality
42–43, 53–56, 63–65, 73, 96, 99, 100, 117, 157–158, 208, 328, 389
Io
95–96, 312, 313–317
Iris
178–179
Jason
271, 274–281, 283, 307, 311, 364
Johnston, S.I.
29n90, 49n27, 57n2, 64n17, 65n19, 69–70, 100n4
Josephus
367–374
kakon (disaster), and derived forms
in Aeschines
164
in Aeschylus
178
in Cassius Dio
168
in Euripides
151, 180, 183
in Herodotus
41, 43, 44, 158, 170, 175
in Hesiod
305, 307, 311
in Josephus
368, 370–371
in Pausanias
165, 359
in Polybius
186
in Procopius
161
in Simplicius
169
in Thucydides
16, 379
klēdōn
64, 366
limos. See famine
Lloyd, G.E.R.
25n80, 26–28, 30n94, 30n96
loigos
159–160, 342, 358
loimos. See plague
Long, A.A.
115, 115n23–24, 118, 120, 122–124, 136
Lydus, John
62
Manetti, G.
98, 112–113
Mardonius
176–177, 366
mantis. See seer
Melampus
93, 113
Melian Dialogue
160
memory
123, 170, 175, 187–188, 196–198, 199–200, 268, 365
Mircea Eliade on
194
Polybius on
188, 197
mentality
critique of concept
24–29
disaster
12, 24, 175, 222, 260, 334
divinatory
56
primitive
27–28
semiotic
73, 91
monsters. See also teras
babies as
86–87
etymology of
79–80
Gorgon
80, 84–86
kētos
108n13, 109, 349–351
Minotaur
87n25, 349, 350, 352, 354–356, 367
Sphinx
85, 88–90, 349–350
typology of
255–257
Nagy, G.
77n3, 246, 342n32
Naturkatastrophe
15–16, 133, 229
necromancy
129, 178
neologism
131, 141, 147, 150, 153
Neoptolemus
68
New Testament
72n27, 116n27
nuclear weapons. See atomic bomb
Odysseus
159
blinds Polyphemus
251–252
Helios’ cattle
210, 235
interprets signs
81, 82, 249n48
shipwrecked
235, 239
Underworld
92
Oedipus
88, 182, 183n32, 290, 310, 346, 347, 350, 356, 367
Oenomaus
354
omen. See also teras, and ornithomancy
auspicious vs. inauspicious
71–72
before Caesar’s murder
134–136
before Cannae disaster
167–168
before Helike disaster
208–209
Latin terminology
79–80
oneiromancy
37, 66, 79, 152, 278n19
Mesopotamian
112–113
plague
360
Prometheus discovers
69–71
Oppian
243, 247–248
oracle. See Apollo (Oracle) and divination (oracular)
ornithomancy
54, 66, 70, 79, 79n8, 82, 249n48
Orosius
171
Pan
360–361
pandemic. See COVID-19
para phusin
86–87, 137, 310, 323
Parian Chronicle
353–354
pathos, pathēma, and related forms
Amyot’s translations of
150, 159
apatheia
7, 151
etymology
159, 162
Helike disaster as
201
in historiography
160–161, 172, 175
in military disaster
163–164, 166–168, 177, 187–188
pathos koinon
369, 373–374
pathos mathos
176, 176–177n19
Pausanias. See also earthquake
disaster lexicon of
163–165
loimos in
334, 359–362
on Aeacus
352–353
on divine anger
224
on divining disaster
45–46, 211, 226
on Helike
201, 203–205, 209, 214, 227, 233
on Teneros
7n20
on teras
84, 88
Peirce, C.S.
17, 48, 58–59
difference with Saussure
60
three forms of inference
100
Peleus
247, 294
interprets signs
280–281
pelōr. See monster
pēma
applied to monsters
297, 298n19, 305
etymology
162
for the Persians
176, 178
mega
249n48, 304–311, 343–345
Prometheus brings
304
Prometheus eases
70
pharmakos. See scapegoat
Pindar
4–5, 10, 23, 50, 90, 226, 235n18, 271
Fragment 33c–d
316–317, 318, 322
Nemean 11
93–94
Olympian 4
241n30
Olympian 6
232n14
Olympian 7
299, 318
Olympian 8
67–68, 89, 93
Paean 6
318
Paean 7b
320
Paean 9
5–8, 16, 24, 31, 53, 63, 76, 152, 278n18, 282, 386
Pythian 1
297n16
Pythian 3
8n21
Pythian 4
273
Pythian 6
230
plague
Athenian
16, 337, 342, 358, 361–362, 369–373, 379–383
Biblical
30, 367–373
Cretan
364–365
Ephesus
31, 378
etymology of
162, 182
in Homer’s Iliad
10, 30, 31, 137, 341n26, 342n32, 354, 360
loimos scheme
87, 137, 169, 173, 346–347
Marseille
335–337
Theban
346, 349–350
Trojan
350–351
Plato
79n6, 149, 163, 197
on divination
47, 66, 68, 69, 77, in Timaeus, 77–78
on loimos
348, 376
Plutarch
as source for Shakespeare
135n22
as transmission text for disaster
147–148
Caesar’s death in
135–136
Letter of Condolence to Apollonius
150–151
military disaster lexicon of
163–166
On Exile
309–310
On Friends and Flatterers, 147–148
159–160
Pythian Dialogues
284–285, 326–329
polemos. See war
Polybius. See also Battle of Cannae
and tragic history
187–188n40, 188
disaster language in
160, 186–188
on Fall of Carthage
188–189
on Strait of Messina
274–275
on tuchē
186
Poseidon
42n8, 64, 91, 196, 206, 208, 215
and Polybotes
240–242
anger
201–202, 204–205, 214, 216–217, 224
Asphaleios
238, 243, 288, 327
builder
67, 301–302, 350
Earth-Shaker
230–231, 233–234, 238, 242, 243, 292
field of action
229–231
Helikonian
202n21, 204, 212, 226
Hippios
232n14, 244n37, 246–247
master over foundations
238–239, 242–246
mode of action
231–233, 238–240, 296
paean for
31
prophecy of ‘speeding chariot’
278–279, 281
The Poseidon Adventure
258–262, 262–263, 265–267, 386
postmodernism
27, 146, 265n16
postmodern monster
356–357, 369, 373, 379
Procopius
161, 166, 169, 383
prodigy. See omen
Prometheus
brings pēma
304
discovers divination
70–73, 90, 270, 288, 306
divines for Io
96, 312–313
in a disastered state
269, 308–309, 311, 313–315
prophecy
and Athenian plague
379–381
as rule in abduction
105–106, 109, 226, 249–250, 251–252, 390
Peleus interprets
280–281
Ptolemy
122–124, 132, 135, 151
pyromancy
79, 93
Pythia
66, 68, 327, 352, 354–355, 359, 365–366, 375–376
liable to bribes
69, 108–109
quarantine
335
rainbow
as meteorological sign
80–81, 83–84, 88
goddess Iris
178–179
Judeo-Christian symbol
83, 179
translating the sign
110–111
reception
134–137, 260
religion. See also Cognitive Science of Religion
and science
206–208
Freud’s view of
2–3
religious belief
8, 42n7, 44–45
repetition
65, 146, 177, 312
resilience
21–22, 167
Rigby, K.
16–17, 21n62, 218n9, 223n30, 263n8, 341n26, 388
risk
1, 19–20, 21n68, 22, 170n4
rocks
269, 285, 314, 325
analogous to winds
273
Clashing (Symplegades)
272–273, 391
of Gyrai
239–240
Wandering (Planctae)
272, 273–274, 275, 325
sack
169, 172
of Antioch
62
of Carthage
188
of Miletus (play)
170, 187
of Rome
171
of Troy
67–68, 237
sacrifice
154, 226, 250, 356, 361, 368, 374, 376–378. See also hieromancy
human
351, 352, 361
self-sacrifice
262, 367
suovetaurilia
153–154
sickness. See disease
scapegoat
344, 355, 374
after disaster
221n21, 223–224
and teras
87, 155
Heracles as
183n32
Oedipus as
88
scholarship
87n24
seer
108–109, 157, 180, 248n48, 251, 307, 358. See also Calchas, Epimenides, Melampus, Teiresias
Apollo as
67–68, 77, 316, 319
as safekeeper
7–8
qualities of a
49, 70, 275, 340
semiotics
medical
27, 60–61, 79, 338
paradigm
61
secular
98
theory of
57, 57–58n3, 62–63
Seneca (Elder)
166
Seneca (Younger)
on astrology and catastrophe
118
on earthquakes
208–209, 229
Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
135, 138n25
Hamlet
130–131, 133–134, 135
King Lear
138–141
Sherlock Holmes
61, 72, 252
shipwreck
224n33, 368n21
and old age
307–308
analogy for Delos
323–325
Argo
272, 275–276
Artemision Bronze
260
Menelaus
325
Odysseus
307, 324
Poseidon causes
239–240, 249–250
Sibyl
68–69, 284–285, 327
Sibylline Books
113
signs
classification of
59, 62–64, 74–77
compendia of
112–113, 117–118
Peirce’s definition of
58
terminology in Greek
77, 79
terminology in Latin
79–80
triadic vs. dyadic model of
58, 60
Sirius
brings calamitas
154
brings loimos
377–378
snakes
and intuitive-knowledge-domain violation
89–90
Argo compared to
281
as sign
67–68, 80–85, 210, 249n48
on the Polybotes crater
241–242
Solon
37, 93, 348–349
Sophocles
Antigone
230, 283, 306n5, 315
Electra
92n42
Oedipus at Colonus
177n19, 204n27
Oedipus Tyrannus, 183n32
231, 310, 346
Women of Trachis
85
stasis. See strife
Strabo
on divine anger
224
on Helike
201–202, 205, 209, 213
on Polybotes
240
on reverse currents
274–275, 317
on rooting Delos
317
on utility of geography
255
strife
alongside loimos
176, 342, 348, 359, 361
compared to earthquake
263n9
divine
233–234, 240n28, 256, 291–293, 295
personified
310, 342
Struck, P.
29, 50–52, 64–65, 76, 157–158
sumphora
16, 46, 150–151, 159, 161, 163–166, 168, 177, 182, 183, 186, 189, 202–203, 207, 351
syllogism. See inferential reasoning
symbol
and myth
229
etymology of
76–77
Peirce’s classification of
59
symbolic death
311
symbolism as anthropomorphizing
53
Tzetzes’ classification of
74–76
Tartarus
325
as cosmic realm
291–292, 314
as semiotic disaster
301–303
Poseidon’s connection to
234–235, 238–239, 244
Teiresias
88, 92–93, 350
Thera
30, 319, 327
Theseus
78
aids Heracles
182–185
on coping with disaster
150–152
Thucydides
160, 163, 172–175, 337, 369–373, 379–383
as a historian
381
Titanomachy. See battle of gods
tsunami
169, 171n5, 174, 214, 217–220
Typhoeus
241. See also battle of gods
as teras
85, 89, 300–301
birth of
297–298, 300
winds of
304–306
uncertainty
and ‘out-of-placeness’
285
as way of coping with disaster
17
divination and
48–49
paradigm
22–24
Vergil
136, 319, 338–340
Vernant, J.P. See also Detienne, M.
on divination
100, 100n4
on Oedipus
350n56
Vesuvius
16
in Cassius Dio
285–289
in Plutarch
284–285
volcano. See Etna, Thera, and Vesuvius
vulnerability paradigm
18–19, 21n68, 221
wall
245–246n39, 343, 361
Achaean
235–238
Heracles uproots
181
of Helike
198n10
of Tartarus
235, 244, 301
plague (mur de la peste)
335
Trojan
67, 236, 239, 350
wandering. See also rocks
Argo
272
Io
312–313
Island
316–318
star
116n28, 280, 323
war. See also battle
Cold
18, 21n68, 264
Peloponnesian
129, 172, 187, 379–380
in disaster lists
6, 277
omen of
6, 83–84, 111, 114, 174–175
oracle of
174–175, 327–328, 359, 379–380
part of disaster triad
157, 171, 341–342, 343, 348, 352, 365, 368
Patterns of
18, 216–218, 222
soundscape of
292–294
Tuchē and
186
wind
Aeolus lord of
273, 275
as sign
209, 314, 324, 345n43
Delos adrift on the
316–318
destructive
117, 119, 302, 304–306, 315, 364
favorable
80, 304–305, 377
lack of
185, 276
poison (simoom)
237
tornado
270
whirlwind
180, 296
Xenophon
10, 70, 79, 174, 244–245, 345n43
Xerxes
43, 106, 176–178, 344, 365–367
Zeus
births Athena
297–298
chases after Asteria
319–320
field of action of
234, 237–238
gods complain to
235, 236, 239, 242
Hikesios
224–225, 230
Ikmaios
377
Konios
306n5
Panhellenios
352–353
signs from
67–68, 69, 77, 81–83, 85, 91, 93, 94, 111
soundscape of
299–300
thunderbolt of
224, 230, 244, 294–296, 314
Xenios
252n52