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’.
Achilles, 526
Aegina, 118
Aeschylus, 517
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
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
‘Bacchic’ conditions and dancing, 69, 229, 262
Black Sea, 248
Briareus, 235
Cadmus (‘the Sidonian’), Cadmeian, 27, 57
Caeneus, 452
Cambyses, 100 ff.
Carian dirges, 242
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
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
Cyprus, 160
Cyrnus, 11
Cyrus, 99 ff.
Daedalus, 76
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
Egypt, Egyptians, 172, 527; lessons in mathematics, 267; rules of art, 47–8, 240
Eileithuia, 222
Elis, 526
Epeius, 236
Epirus, 513
Eretria, Eretrians, 105–106
Etruria, 160
Euboea, 511
Euripides, 508
Europe, 105
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
Heraclea (Pontica), 212
Heraclids, 158
Hercules, 87
Hermes, 447
Herodotus, 510
Hesiod, 50, 76; quoted, 94, 134, 391, 450
Homer, 50, 80, 320, 451, 509, 526; quoted, 4, 79, 82, 116, 212, 247, 396, 398
Iberians, 22
Iccus, 292
Ida, 82
Ionian way of life, 80
Isis, 48
Isthmus, 460
Kore, 219
Lachesis, 477
Laius, 288
Locrians, 22
Macareus, 291
Mariandynoi, 212
Marsyas, 76
Medes, 101
Megara, 11
Menelaus, 509
Menoetius, 451
Messenia, 213
Midas, 53
Miletus, 18
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
Olympia, 147, 251, 271, 292, 460
Olympus, 76
Orpheus, Orphic, 65, 76, 220, 277
Palamedes, 76
Pans, 262
Parnassus, Mt, 513
Patroclus, 451
Peleus, 451
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
Plataea, 117
Pluto, 276
Plutus, 505
Protagoras, 512
Pythagorean opposites, 512
Pythian (Apollo), 14
‘Rangers’, 213
Sarmatians, 248–50
Satyrs, 262
‘Seven’, the, 101
Sileni, 262
Simonides, 520
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
Syracusans, 22
Telemachus, 247
Thales, 524
Thamyras, 277
Thebes, 93
Themis, 444
Theognis, 11
Theopompus, 509
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
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