So I'm a little late to the party, but here's my two cents anyway.
The noun is ιδιωτης; adjective ιδιος is accented on the antepenult (as you probably suspected).
I'm with you on the individual versus society, though I don't know enough (which is to say nothing) about Japanese performance to comment on that particular comparision. But I think ancient masks actually were fairly differentiated, at least as far as distinguishing a generic Ajax from a generic Agamemnon. I've had similar narratological thoughts regarding the messenger, though; I don't know that his mask would have been very distinctive, and he's not usually very thoroughly characterized in tragedy (with a few exceptions like Talthybius), so that gives him a chance to focalize more vividly the individual characters he talks about. But I guess that's kind of a different issue.
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Date: 2010-02-24 02:54 (UTC)The noun is ιδιωτης; adjective ιδιος is accented on the antepenult (as you probably suspected).
I'm with you on the individual versus society, though I don't know enough (which is to say nothing) about Japanese performance to comment on that particular comparision. But I think ancient masks actually were fairly differentiated, at least as far as distinguishing a generic Ajax from a generic Agamemnon. I've had similar narratological thoughts regarding the messenger, though; I don't know that his mask would have been very distinctive, and he's not usually very thoroughly characterized in tragedy (with a few exceptions like Talthybius), so that gives him a chance to focalize more vividly the individual characters he talks about. But I guess that's kind of a different issue.