#i'm counting instances narrated in choral odes as past events but not those that are just referred to as having happened

[finelythreadedsky]

kinslaying stats for extant greek tragedy:

instances of infanticide/filicide: 6 (9 deaths total)

instances of fratricide: 2 (4 deaths total)

instances of patricide: 2

instances of matricide: 3

instances of mariticide: 2

instances of uxoricide: 2

#soooo... filicide sweep? #i'm counting alcestis as uxoricide (she did die) #and heracles in the trachiniai as both mariticide and patricide #you probably could do the stats for plenty of the lost/fragmentary plays too #all 3 matricides are clytemnestra btw #and both fratricides are the double deaths of polynices and eteocles #i'm counting instances narrated in choral odes as past events but not those that are just referred to as having happened #mine