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