In the last two chapters I have considered first how a series of terms concerned with civic order and relations within the city is placed at risk in the tragic arena, and secondly, in more general terms, how the city itself constitutes a specific ideology as well as a specific social organization. Now in this chapter I am going to investigate a particularly important system of ideas concerned with relations between people in the city and family, a system which is especially difficult for the modern reader to determine, namely, the notions constituting and surrounding the adjectives philos and ekhthros. I have left these terms untranslated as yet because part of the problem for the modern reader is the extensive semantic range of these and related terms, not just in the way that words in different languages are rarely coextensive in connotation, but also in the way that the force and direction of usage in this case are so varied.