Index of Names

This index supplements the detailed table of contents (pp. v–xv) and the list of crimes (pp. 494–99); it covers the translation and the more important names in the Notes, but not the Introduction, Appendix or ‘signposts’.

Achaeans, 83, 87, 116

Achilles, 526

Aegina, 118

Aeschylus, 517

Agamemnon, 116, 509

Alcman, 511

Amazons, 249

Ammon, 160

Amphion, 76

Amycus, 236

Amyntor, 435

Anaxagoras, 528

Androgeos, 511

Antaeus, 236

Apollo, 55; and Delphi, 87, 460, 513; hymns in praise of, 510; leader of Muses, 43; as legislator, 3, 14, 15, 55; oath to, 444; Paean, 58; as patron of music, 43, 58, 69, 237; presentation of Scrutineers to, 453–5; priests, 455; Pythian, 14; temple, 196, 282, 453–4

Arcturus, 300

Ares, 282, 419

Argos, 84, 94, 96, 118

Aristodemus, 96, 509

Artemis, 282

Artemisium, 117

Assyrian empire, 87

Astylus, 293

Athena, and armed dancing, 236, 249; patron of craftsmen, 419; ‘patron saint’ of Athens, 6, 504; patron of soldiers, 419; patron of the state, 169, 420; temple, 169, 306

Athens, Athenians, 6, 9, 16; and armed dancing, 236; character, 28, 178; laws and constitution, 99, 105–109, 110; defend Greece, 97, 105–107; and drunkenness, 21; enslave Ceians, 22; music, 107–108; navy, 115–16; sports, 227; treatment of women, 249

Athos, 106

Atropos, 477

Attica, Attic, 6, 115

‘Bacchic’ conditions and dancing, 69, 229, 262

Black Sea, 248

Boeotia, 18, 511

Briareus, 235

Cadmus (‘the Sidonian’), Cadmeian, 27, 57

Caeneus, 452

Cambyses, 100 ff.

Carian dirges, 242

Carthaginians, 22, 71

Ceians, 22

Celts, 22

Cercyon, 236

Cinyras, 53

Clotho, 477

Cnossos, 4, 10, 15, 493; founds new colony, 110, 177 ff.; laws and constitution of, 21, 124

Corybantic conditions, 229

Cresphontes, 84, 96

Crete, Cretans, 38, 55, 117, 368; artistic canons, 52; common meals, 217–18, 296; custom of deferring to age, 16–17, 52–3; drunkenness, 71; food supply, 305; founds new colony, 110, 117–18, 176 ff., 460; use of horses, 283–4; laws and constitution, 3–6, 9, 11–12, 16, 36, 83–4, 99, 115; legislator, 3–6, 11–12; liking for gymnastics, 18, 70; military exercises, 5–6, 236; navy, 115–16; opinions about morals, 55; attitude to pleasure, 17, 21; and poetry, 10, 80; sexual practices, 18–19, 288; songs, 61; taciturnity, 27; terrain, 5, 113 ff., 284; treatment of women, 217–18

Crison, 293

Cronus, 125–6

Curetes, 236

Cybele, 517

Cyclopes, 79–80, 82

Cyprus, 160

Cyrnus, 11

Cyrus, 99 ff.

Daedalus, 76

Dandania, Dardanus, 82, 110

Darius, 100–101, 105–106

Datis, 105

Delphi, Delphic oracle, 87, 251, 423, 460; obeyed by Magnesia, 160, 187, 275, 316, 334, 408, 456, 523

Demeter, 219

Dionysus, 21, 38, 43, 60, 107, 300, 518; punished by Hera, 68–9; and ‘Third Chorus’, 58–9, 67–9, 258

Diopompus, 293

Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), 236

Dodona, 160

Dorians, Dorieus, 83, 86, 87, 110; Dorian mode, 66

Earth, 162, 472, 510

Egypt, Egyptians, 172, 527; lessons in mathematics, 267; rules of art, 47–8, 240

Eileithuia, 222

Elis, 526

Epeius, 236

Epimenides, 28, 76

Epirus, 513

Eretria, Eretrians, 105–106

Etruria, 160

Euboea, 511

Euripides, 508

Europe, 105

Eurysthenes, 84, 509

Fates, 240, 477

Ganymede, 19

Geryon, 235

Gomates, 510

Gortyn, Cretan, 118; Peloponnesian, 118

Graces, 82

Greece, Greeks, ancient law, 51; assemblies, 455, 460; autocracy, 79; coinage, 165; defence, 87, 96–7, 105, 117; devotions, 372; education, 45; food supply, 297; and the gods, 369, 372; as invaders, 260; ignorance of mathematics, 267–8; their general opinions, 12, 27, 117; attitude to pleasure, 17; power, 94; racial mixture with barbarians, 97; as settlers in Magnesia, 117–18; sexual practices, 294; and slavery, 212; tyranny over, 89; view of wealth, 342

Hades, 396

Heaven, 510

Hector, 451

Hellespont, 106

Hephaestus, 419

Hera, 69, 208, 209

Heraclea (Pontica), 212

Heraclids, 158

Hercules, 87

Hermes, 447

Herodotus, 510

Hesiod, 50, 76; quoted, 94, 134, 391, 450

Hestia, 169, 306, 314–15

Hippolytus, 90, 435

Homer, 50, 80, 320, 451, 509, 526; quoted, 4, 79, 82, 116, 212, 247, 396, 398

Iberians, 22

Iccus, 292

Ida, 82

Ilium, 82–3, 87

Ionian way of life, 80

Isis, 48

Isthmus, 460

Italy, 51, 213

Kore, 219

Lachesis, 477

Laius, 288

Locrians, 22

Lycurgus, 11, 14, 320

Macareus, 291

Marathon, 105, 106, 117

Mariandynoi, 212

Marsyas, 76

Medes, 101

Megara, 11

Menelaus, 509

Menoetius, 451

Messene, 84, 94, 105, 509

Messenia, 213

Midas, 53

Miletus, 18

Minos, 4, 11, 14, 115

Minotaur, 511

Moon, 270

Muse(s), 43, 50, 58–9, 65, 69, 82, 108, 134, 237, 265, 277; of competitions, 220; of marriage, 210; ‘non-combatant’, 262

Nemea, 460

Nestor, 123

Nile, 464

Ninos, 87

Nymphs, 262

Odysseus, 116

Oedipus, 291, 435

Olympia, 147, 251, 271, 292, 460

Olympus, 76

Olympus (Mt), 130, 396

Orpheus, Orphic, 65, 76, 220, 277

Palamedes, 76

Pans, 262

Parnassus, Mt, 513

Patroclus, 451

Peleus, 451

Peloponnese, 87, 118

Pelops, 87

Penestai, 516

Persia, Persians, authoritarianism, 110; discipline, 100–101; drinking habits, 22; Great King, 87; history of the monarchy, 99 ff.; prepare to fight Greeks, 28, 95; wars, 105 ff., 117

Phaedra, 509

Phoenicians, 172

Phoenix, 435

Phrygia, 507

Pindar, 93, 127

Plataea, 117

Pluto, 276

Plutus, 505

Procles, 84, 509

Protagoras, 512

‘Pyrrhic’ dancing, 262, 263

Pythagorean opposites, 512

Pythian (Apollo), 14

‘Rangers’, 213

Rhadamanthus, 4, 457

Salamis, 105, 117

Sarmatians, 248–50

Satyrs, 262

Scythians, 22, 235

‘Seven’, the, 101

Sicily, 11, 51

Sileni, 262

Simonides, 520

Solon, 320, 408

Sparta, Spartans, 9, 28, 368; artistic canons, 52; character, 178; and city walls, 215; common meals, 217–18, 296; custom of deferring to age, 16–17, 52–3; defends Greece, 96–7, 105; drunkenness, 21, 71; helot system, 211; laws and constitution, 3–6, 9, 11, 14–15, 83 ff., 99, 102, 124; legislator, 3, 21; liking for gymnastics, 18, 70; military exercises, 236; opinions about morals, attitude to pleasure, 17, 21 ff.; and poetry, 10, 80; sexual practices, 18, 288; songs, 61; taciturnity, 27, 138; treatment of women, 217–18, 249–50; way of life, 80

Sun, 270, 453–5, 460

Syracusans, 22

Tarentum, 21, 292

Telemachus, 247

Temenos, 84, 96

Thales, 524

Thamyras, 277

Thebes, 93

Themis, 444

Theognis, 11

Theopompus, 509

Theseus, 90, 435

Thessaly, Thessalians, 5, 212, 452

Thetis, 451

Thrace, Thracians, 22, 53, 249

Thurii, 18

Thyestes, 291

Titans, 109

Triptolemus, 219

Troy, Trojans, 83, 87, 116, 123

Tyrtaeus, 9–11, 61, 320

Xerxes, 101, 106

Zeus, 14, 55, 184, 209, 212, 447, 460, 513, 518; God of Kin, 297, 363; God of Strangers, 148, 297–8, 464; as legislator, 3–4, 11, 14, 15, 19, 55, 447; oath to, 444; patron of the state, 169, 420; Protector of Boundaries, 297; route to cave of, 4, 493; temples, 306