Abantes, on Euboea, 162;
kinsmen of Io, 212–13; 356, 380
Adana, called Danuna, 79;
and Mopsus, 225;
and ‘Awarikus’, 229
and Cypriot
Aous, 310;
not in Homer, 351;
and Hipposthenes, 378
aetiology, 371–6
Afqa, and Adonis, 249–50
Agatha, cuts off breasts and halts lava, 306
Aghia Paraskevi, and Pallene Giants, 327, 329
Agrios, among Etruscans, 183
Ahta, perhaps Al Mina, 106, 377
Aidna, as Etna in Hesiod, 366
Ain Dara, 101
Al Mina, 104–20, 139, 259, 265, 365
Alcyoneus, a Giant captain, 320, 324
Alexander, avoiding smell of dead, 9;
route into Syria, 84;
locating myths in East, 185–92;
and Dionysus, 188–91;
and war-elephants, 194–5;
no foreign languages, 355
Alexandria, and cult of Adonis, 243
Almops, a Giant in Macedon, 328
alphabet, invention and use, 33–4; 71–2
Amanus, ‘Mountains of Box-trees’, 17, 80, 89, 99, 100, 109, 256, 266
Amarynthos, on Euboea, 170
Amathus, pottery imports, 53, 61, 88, 377;
and winds, 69;
and alphabet, perhaps, 71;
site and history, 73;
and Sardinia, 126;
and Hipposthenes, 377
Amazons, and Alexander’s army, 191
amber, and resins, 346–7
Ammianus, describes Jebel Aqra, 256
Amos, and partying, 92
Amphidamas, on Euboea, 364–5, 379
Amphilochus, travelling hero, 83, 85, 165;
Amrith, and Heracles’ iconography, 206
Amyclaion, probably Kommos on Crete, 341
Anas, mates with Hipposthenes, 337–80
Anavarza, ancient Anazarbus, 79, 256
Anemones, and Adonis, 241;
discovered at Eryx, 252
Antaeus, his ‘corpse’, 193
and Io, 213
Aous, Cilician river, 310-n;
its ‘divine music’, 314;
‘voiceless’, 314
Aphrodite, and Adonis, 241–2;
birth of, 278, 3 59–72;in Homer, 353–4;
reaching Cyprus, 292–4;
Apollo, at Delphi, 35, 361–2, 366, 368–9
Apollodorus, pseudonym of author on myths, 302–3
Apollonius of Tyana, at Aigai, 253
Arachosia, the Kandahar site, 16
Argos, and Amphilochus, 83, 85, 165;
and orientalizing heroes, 184;
and Io, 211–12;
and Hera, 212;
and Cilician cities, 237–8
Argoura, and Io on Euboea, 217
‘Arima–Arimoi’, in Homer, 41, 114, and in Hesiod, 304;
in Lydia, 306;
in Syria, 307;
on Ischia, 316–17, 335; 368, 371
Arimmatta, Hittite place name, 308, 313–14, 371
Aristophanes, and Adonis, 243–4;
and Giants, 321
Armenians, and Jason, 186–7
Arnold, Matthew, and ‘grave Tyrian trader’, 150–51
and Al Mina, 109–10
Arundell, William, on Turkish volcanoes, 305
Arybas, in Homer’s Sidon, 345
and ‘Moxos’, 233
Ascra, 358
Ashdod, and Yamani, perhaps a Greek, 31
‘Asian Meadow’, in Homer, 40–41, 336
Aspendos, and Mopsus, 232, 235;
and Alexander, 237
Assyrian kings, and Medes, 17;
and Urartu, 17;
and Unqi, 100–102
Atalia, queen with Sargon, 28
Athenians, female burials and Lefkandi, 63;
pots at Salamis on Cyprus, 75;
and Daedalus, 197
Augustine, pupil of, 262;
and Giants’ teeth, 330
Auza, in Libya, 22, 25, 147, 342
Avesta, ‘beautiful’
places, 16
Azitawattas, at Karatepe, 231–2;
linked to Aspendos, 232
Baal, on Jebel Aqra, 258;
at Memphis, 265–6;
in Israel, 267;
in Nile Delta, 268–9
Babel, 373
Bahrain, 17
Baios, supposedly founds Baiae, 183
Baken–Renef, Pharaoh (‘Bocchoris’), 32;
scarab at Ischia, 32, 155, 343
Balkh–Bactra, a ‘beautiful’
place, 16
Bardawil, Lake and Zeus Kasios, 268–9;
shrine at, 270;
and Typhon, 304
Barlaam, stormtrooper on Jebel Aqra, 263
Bell, Gertrude, on ‘Mount Cassius’
and its shore, 120;
at Corycian Cave, 311
Bent, Theodore, on crocuses and Corycian Cave, 309
Berkeley, Bishop, concerning Ischia, 151
Berossus, Babylonian historian, 86
Bethlehem, and Adonis, 254
Betyllion, or Ras Shamra, 96–7, 258–9
Beylan Pass, 80
Bikni, Mount, 16
‘black-on-red’, pottery from Cyprus, 52
Boardman, Sir John, on Euboean pottery at Al Mina, 105
‘Bocchoris’, Greek name for Baken–Renef, 32;
seal on Ischia, 32, 152, 155; 343
Boraston, MacLair, and ‘crashing’
birds, 336
Briareus, and Euboeans, 195, 319–20
Byblos, and Tammuz–Adonis, 246–7, 378
Cadiz, and Phoenicians, 24;
and Heracles, 207–9
Cadmus, searching for Europa, 210
Cailloubella, and Giants, 3 28
Callimachus, poetry on Mopsus, 23 2;
on sickle of Cronos, 284–5
Callisthenes, historical adviser with Alexander, 192;
and Arima, 308;
and Corycian Cave, 311;
no foreign languages, 355
Calycadnus, and nearby cave, 308–9
and Greek residents, 94;
and the Dido story, 144;
its foundation, 145
Cassiope, on Corcyra, dedications at, 271–2
Castor, son of, invented by Homer’s Odysseus, 338–9
Catania, saved by mastectomy, 306
Celenderis, 82
Cerveteri, pottery showing ‘Taitale’, 200
Chalcidic Peninsula, and Lefkandi, 61
dominates in West by 730 BC, 154;
and homosexuality, 168;
and sickle of Cronos, 291–2;
and Hipposthenes, 379
Chalos river, or Afrin, 101
Chares, and Persian legend, 185–6
Chimaira, and Bellerophon, 220;
in Lycia, 220–21
Chios, and Euboea, 63–4, 70–71, 356, 376
chronology, of ‘dark ages’, 50–51, 129–30
Cilicia, 77–88;
roses, 82–3;
eponym ‘Cilix’, 216;
and Perseus with Pegasus, 219
and King Philip, 241
Circeii, and ‘Circe’, 183–4
Claros, oracle and Mospus, 225–6;
and Colophon, 235
Colophon, and Claros, 234;
and Calchas, 235
Constantine, attacking pagan cult-sites, 253–4
and Zeus Kasios, 270–72;
and sickles of gods, 291–2;
Cordelia, in eighth century BC, 24
Corinth, goods in Corcyra and South-east Italy, 130–31;
on Ischia, 151–4;
annexing myths and heroes, 184
Cornwall, alleged links with Phoenicians, 24
Corycian Cave, in Cilicia, 308–12
Crete, and King David, 70;
bronze shields, 116, 363–4, and Phoenicians, 166–7;
‘orientalizing’, 166–8;
and Minos, 201;
and Homer, 338–43;
and Cyprus, 362–3
Cronos, castrates Heaven, 277–8;
his stories expand, 279–80, 296–7, 362–4;
eats children, 296;
and Homer, 350–51;
and stone, 368
crusaders, and sea-winds, 69
Cumae, in west Italy, 148–50, 152;
Euboean burial, 160;
and Daedalus, 198;
Cyprus, ‘seven kings’
and Sargon, 30;
pottery in eleventh and tenth centuries BC, 51–2;
and Sardinia, 126–7;
and west Italy, 132;
and Heracles, 206;
Cythera, and Aphrodite, 282–3
Daedalus, 197–203
Daniel, and golden image, 19;
and ages of metal, 367
‘Dark Ages’, dissipated by travelling pottery, 50–51
David, King, and bodyguards, 70
Delphi, oracle at, 35;
Delphyne, Typhon’s helper, 303
Demavend, Mount, 16
Demetrius, son of Antigonus, and Egypt, 269
dinosaurs, bones and myths, 194, 322–30
Dionysus, eastern travels and origins, 188–91
Dioscorides, and topless Adonis-worshippers, 243
Doliche, 295
Domuztepe, 80–81
Dor, tenth century BC Greek cup, 53
Drepanon, place name, 284;
on Sea of Marmara, 288;
on Gulf of Corinth, 288;
on Sicily, 292–3
Dumuzi, 244–6
Dur Sarrukin, ‘Sargon’s Citadel’, 27–8
Echidna, Typhon’s mate, 304;
her name, 306
Egypt, in eighth century BC, 20–21, 31, 47–8;
and Greeks, 32;
and Lefkandi, 58;
and Phoenician ships, 93;
and Ischia, 155–6;
elephants, in north Syria, 99, 120;
in Morocco, 194;
bones on Samos, 194–5
Eleutherna, and Phoenician grave-markers, 166
Epeios, travelling carpenter, 160
Ephorus, on Europa, 215
Eretria, and Lefkandi, 53;
scents, 66;
on Ischia, 138–9;
expelled from West, 154;
and Milesians, 164;
contacts, east and west, 169–70;
only sex and horses, 171;
founds Methone, 171;
claims to sickle of Cronos, 291–2;
illicit archer, 380
‘Erimma’, Hittite place-name, 308
Eryx, and perhaps Adonis, 252
Eryx, and the Great Castrator, 293
Eskimoes, and darkness, 294
Essex, and the Great Castrator, 286
Etruscans, and Phoenicians, 23, 24, 159;
and Greek sanctuaries, 134;
and Elba, 134;
and metals, 134;
and Greek imports, 135–6, 159–60;
big settlements, 135;
‘orientalizing’ imports, 159;
and Euboean craftsmen, 159–60;
and Greek sex, 160
Euboea and Euboeans, Gulf of, 53–4;
numbers abroad, 168;
and Chalcidic north, 62–3, 168, 321–32;
and Chios, 63–4, 70–71; 356, 376;
as sailors, 175–80;
scale of trading, 70;
pottery abroad, 53–70, 74–7, 83, 95–8, 129–34, 138–60, 153;
at Posideion, 85;
and Philistines, 91;
at Al Mina, 105, 108–10, in, 113–14, 120, 139, 259, 265;
and horses, 113, 150, 159–60, 380;
perhaps at Oricos, 130;
in Sicily and west Italy, 129–34;
at Rome, 133;
on Tunisian coast, 145–7;
at Cumae, 148–50, 159–61, 379;
in Homeric ‘neverland’, 183–4;
and myths, 195–6;
and Heracles, 209–10;
and Io, 214;
perhaps locating Mopsus, 233, 236;
perhaps locating Zeus Kasios, 271–2;
and Great Castrator, 285–92;
and foreign gods, 296;
and Odyssey, 355;
and Delphi, 368–9
Eumaeus, in Odyssey, on poetry, 37;
on experts from afar, 222–3;
with Odysseus, 338;
on early life, 345–7
Eumelus, on Europa, 215
Eupaphis, inscribed verses at Corycian Cave, 310
Europa, travelling heroine, 210;
mounted by Zeus, 211;
and Cadmus, 215–16
Eurybates, and dark skin, 127, 147
Eurycleia, slave, but not concubine, of Laertes, 177
Eusebius, gives ‘date’
for Mopsus, 227–8
Evans, Sir Arthur, and Homer on Crete, 341–2
Exodus, route by Nile Delta, 267, 269
Ezekiel, and Tyre’s imports, 26, 66, 68;
and Cilician horses, 99
Ezra, Fourth Book of, on shrinking babies, 331
Ficana, and Euboean pottery, 132–3
Fourka, near Mende, and Giants, 327
Gabii, early inscription, 136–7
Ganymede, in Eretria and at Chalcis, 160, 375
Gaza, and Assyrian images, 18;
as ‘lone’, 214
Geryon, his cattle and Heracles, 207
Gilgamesh, and Homer, 353
Golgoi, and Adonis, 249–50
Gordios, father of Midas, skull, 29
Gorgon, sighted in desert, 194;
killed by Perseus, 219
Gortyn, scene of Zeus’s sex with Europa, 211;
bones of Europa, 215;
and Homer, 340–41
Graia, 171–2
Gravisca, and Adonis, 251–2
‘Greatest Altar’, in Rome, 205, 210
Gygaea, Lake, home of Echidna, 306; 351–2
Hadad, Storm God in Syria, 117
Hadrian, on Jebel Aqra, 263;
at Pelusium, 270
Hamilton, Sir William, and the Solfatara, 323
Hazael, of Damascus, and horse-harness, 116–17
Hazzi, Mount, the Jebel Aqra, 258–9, 273–5, 203, 286;
and Hedammu, 301;
‘Heaven and Hell’, ravines in Cilicia, 309
Hecataeus, of Miletus, his Circuit of the Earth and north Africa, 145;
and Heracles, 207–8
Hector, and Homeric burials, 56, 82
Hedammu, Hittite serpent, 301
Helbon, and Syrian wine, 67
Helen, and drugs, 8;
elopes to Sidon, 47, in Egypt, 347–8
Hellenes, and Delphi, 172
Hera, on Euboea and perhaps Ischia, 178;
and Euboeans’ travels, 195;
Homeric breast-straps, 353–4
Heracles, and Antaeus, 193;
as travelling hero, 203–10;
on Euboea, 203–4;
on Sicily, 208;
his pillars in the West, 208–9
Hermes, fights Typhon, 310, 312
Hermopolis, captured by Piye, 20
Hermus, river in Lydia, 351
hero-cults, at old mounds, 35
Herodotus, and Posideion, 84;
and Kasion in Egypt, 268;
and aetiology, 375
Heropythos, genealogy, 70, 356
Hesiod, sexist grumbling, 9;
date of, 36;
Theogony ends before lines on Circe’s children, 182–3;
stories of Cronos, 271–81, 359;
birth of Aphrodite, 278–9, 282;
poems’ sources, 358–69;
and Hecate, 359–60;
his Theogony and the Muses, 360;
and Delphi, 361–4;
and his prize, 379–80
Hezekiah, king of Judah, 20
Hilakku, ‘rough Cilicia’, 79
Himera, and the cult of Cronos, 285
Hippocles, at Cumae, 149
hippopotamus, in north Syria, 99, 323
Hipposthenes, living life to the full, 376–80
Histiaea, and wine, 67
‘Hiyawa’, not Achaeans, 231
Hogarth, D. G., and Lycian fire, 220
Holdich, Sir Thomas, tracking Dionysus, 189–91
Homer, psychology of heroes, 3–4;
and slavery, 6;
and wounds, 7;
pain relief, 8;
(probable) date, 36–7 and appendix (possible) performance-context, 37–8;
and his ‘Garden of Alcinous’, 38–9;
similes for Greeks’ advance, 40–41;
place-names and travel-tales, 46–7, 77, 338–44, 351–2;
objects’ travels and archaeology, 48;
and Carian or Lydian women, 119;
and Ischia, 158;
and Heracles, 203;
and Typhoeus–Typhon, 298–9, 335;
and Odysseus’ lying tales, 338–44;
and Eumaeus, 344–7;
and ‘Near East’, 352–5;
and Chios, 356–8;
and absence of aetiologies, 372
Homeridai, on Chios, 355–6
horses, in eighth century BC art and society, 10;
origin of drawing, 10;
and Piye in Egypt, 20;
buried at Lefkandi, Cyprus, Crete, 57–8;
winged, at Carchemish, 219;
and Hipposthenes, 379–80
Hoshea, king of Israel, 19
Huelva, and Phoenicians, 25–6;
and Euboean goods, 26;
and Odyssey, 124
Ia‘, Assyrian name for Ionians, 30
Ialysos, and Phoenicians, 166
Iamani, perhaps Greek, usurping power at Ashdod, 31
Iatnana, Assyrian name for Cyprus, 30
Ibn Jubayr, on winds, 69
Illubru, 85
Imm, in north Syria, 118
Immanuel, 20
Inanna, loves Dumuzi, 244
Inarime, 355–6
Io, as a cow, 210;
her travels, 210–14
Ion, of Chios, 356
Ionians, raiders and Sargon, 30–31
‘Iopolis’, in north Syria, 213
Iphition, from Gygaean Lake, 351
Isaiah, prophecies, 20;
lips and coal, 29
Ischia, San Montano cemeteries, 6, 140, 153;
and Euboeans, 138–60;
and gold items, 143–4;
‘multicultural’, within limits, 151–5;
eruption on, 336–7
Iskenderun, in Cilicia, 85, 87, 89;
and Zeus Kasios, 261
Israel, kingdom of, 19
Ithaca, caves and Odysseus, 181–2
J, Jahwist in Genesis, 373
Jacob, and aetiology, 373
Jason, and travelling myths, 184, 187
and metals, 112;
and Io, 213;
and gods, 255–72;
John Malalas, on Io in Syria, 213–14;
on Giants in Syria, 322–3
Joseph, and aetiology, 373
Joshua, and his knives, 374
Julian, on Jebel Aqra, 263
Julius Caesar, and locals’ stories, 187–8
Kanli Divane, ravine, 312
Karabur, Assyrian rock carvings, 18
Karatepe, 80–81;
and ‘lyre-player’
seals, 115;
and Azitawattas, 231–2
Kassiopeia, and sea-monster, 262
Kassios-names, 261–2
Kella, priest at Hittite Nerik, 299
Keramos, and Zeus Kasios, 262
Kerethites, and King David, 70
Khaldeh, 93
Kinalua, or Tell Tayinat, 100–101, 109, in, 265, 376–7
Kinet Hüyük, perhaps Issus, 83
Kirua, a rebel, 85
Kition, as Qart Hadasht, 22;
Sargon’s stele, 30;
site and history 73–4
Kizzuwatna, 80
Knossos, Phoenician letters on a bowl, 166, 342;
and Daedalus, 198–9;
and Delphi, 361–2;
and Ida, 364
Kommos, traders’ stopover, 166;
Kothar, 199
Koukos, and Euboeans, 62
Koumi, and Euboean wine, 67–8; 142
Kourion, ‘Cesnola’
and Perseus, 181
Kumarbi, god, 275;
and harvest, 280;
matches Greek Cronos, 280–82;
and stone, 296–7;
Kundu, name for Cyinda, 79
Latinos, among Etruscans, 183
Lear, king in eighth century BC, 24
Lefkandi, cemeteries and dead, 6;
Toumba and building, 55–9;
and Homer, 56–7;
and Athens, 63;
not Phoenician, 63;
and Chios, 64;
Lelantine War, on Euboea, 169
Leto, Pomponio, and old bones, 324–5
Leuca, 326
Leuternians, 326
Libya, and Homer, 122–3;
and Phoenicians, 344
life-expectancy, ancient, 6
Lindos, Chronicle of, 200
Lisbon, and Phoenicians, 24;
and Homer, 124
Lotan, Leviathan, 297
Loutra, and Macedonian prehistoric animals, 328
Lucan, poetry on Corycian Cave, 309
Lucian, on Adonis, 247–8
Luoyang, 13
Luwian, language, 80, 100–101, 220, 227, 353, 371
Lycians, in Homer, 353
Lyktos–Lyttos, on Crete, 363
lyre-player seals, 114–15, 139;
Macedonians, in north Syria, 119–20;
and Giants, 328
Magarsos, coins, site and temple, 87–8;
tombs, including Mopsus’, 239
Malatya, and snake-monster, 300
and Alexander, 237
Mamre, and angels, 253
Marius, and a Gorgon, 194
Masefield, John, and Phoenicians, 151
Massilia, near Heracles’s ‘boulders’, 207–8
Mayor, Adrienne, her study of fossils and Giants, 322, 329
Medea, ‘Metaia’
in Etruria, 200
Medes, and towns, 16;
and horses, 16–17
Megiddo, 91
Melqart, as Tyre’s ‘Heracles’, 206–7
Mende, and Euboeans, 62, 168, 329, 369, 376
Menelaus, in Libya, 122–3;
off Crete, 340–42;
in Egypt, 347–8
Messapians, hostile to foreign settlers, 131
metals, on Cyprus, Sardinia and in Africa and South Spain, 25;
in south Cilicia, 82;
ages of metals in Hesiod, 367–8
Methone, and Euboeans, 171
migrant seers or charismatics, 224–6, 238
Miletus and Milesians, receiving horse-harness, 118, 164
Milia, and a mammoth in Macedon, 328
Mita, the Greeks’ king Midas, 29;
Miteloudis, G., a finder of Giants’ teeth, 327
Mitrou, and Euboea, 62
monkeys, and Ischia, 141, 316;
and Tunisia, 146–7
Mopsouhestia, 225;
Mopsoukrene, ‘Mopsus’
Mopsus, his travels, 224–39;
not m
Homer, 351
Mount Batten, and metal-trading, 24
Muksas, ‘house of, 79, 81, 313–14, 315, 371
Muksus, in Hittite letter, 226–7
muthoi, as ‘myths’
and their diffusion, 34–6, 179–85, 222, 255–6
Myres, J. L., sees Aphrodite, 292
Myriandros, 84
Myrrha, spice-girl, and Adonis, 241;
and king Philip II, 241
mythical heroes, their travels, 180–85
nakedness, in eighth century BC art, 11;
in early athletics, 11
Nanou, peak of Jebel Aqra range, 259
Nemea, and inscribed list of ‘Argive’
kin, 238
‘Nestor’s Cup’, on Ischia, 157–8, 357
Nineveh, 28, no Ninurta, parallels with Heracles’s exploits, 204
Niobe, ‘all tears’, 337
Noah, virtuous, no sodomite, 331
Nonnus, Christian poet, on Typhon, 302–3, 319;
and Statala, 305–6
Nora, and Phoenician inscribed stone, 128
Notion, and Claros and Mopsus, 234–5;
‘kills’ Calchas, 235
Odysseus, love for Penelope, 10;
seamanship of, 176;
caves on Ithaca, 181–2;
lying tales, 338–45;
Oechalia, in Euboea, 204
Olympic Games, and nudity, n;
dating, 13
opium, ancients’ use of, 8–9
Oppian, poet, on Typhon, 302, 310, 312
orientalizing, and Phoenicians, 27;
Orontes, river, 91, 99, 101–2;
and Hazael, 117;
and Macedonians, 119–20;
its serpentine bed, 307;
and Giants, 321
and purple-dye, 66;
in Graia, 171–2
Orsippus, a Megarian nude runner, 11
Otranto, and Giants, 325–6
Oxylithos, Mount, on Euboea, and volcanic soil, 67
a Giant, 321
Pahri, perhaps modern Misis, 79, 225
Paltos, and Euboean pottery, 95
Pamphylia, and Mopsus, 233, 235
Panaima, and bones on Samos, 194–5
Pandora, 5;
releases troubles for men, 374
Panyassis, poetry on Adonis, 240–41
Paphos, on Cyprus, and birth of Aphrodite, 282–3;
and arrival of Aphrodite, 292; 294
Patroclus, Homeric funeral, 56
Pausanias, allegorizes Cronos-stories, 293;
on Giants in Arcadia, 328–9
Peary, Captain, and Greenland, 294
Pegasus, 218–19;
and Cilician ‘namesake’, 220;
and aetiology, 372
Peloros, a Giant on Straits of Sicily, 321
Perge, ‘Parha’ in Hittite, 232;
and the ‘Magnificent Seven’ statues, 232
Perseus, at Kourion, 181;
and Gorgon, 193;
as travelling hero, 218–21
Phalaris, of Acragas, 200–201
Phaselis, later linked with Mopsus, 23 5
Philistines, and King David, 70;
and Greek pottery, 91
Philo, of Byblos, 273–4;
and castration-story, 282–3
Phlegra, and volcanic sites, 315, 323, 329, 330;
on Chalcidic peninsula, 326–8; 329
Phoenicians, name 21;
territories, 21;
luxuries, 21;
and stars, 176;
and Greeks, 33;
on Crete, 22, 47, 166–8, 341–2;
in west Italy, 23, 127–9, 131–7, 156, 159;
at Rome, possibly, 23;
on Malta, 23;
on Motya, 148;
in Spain, at Malaga, 23;
on south coast, 23;
and metals, 25, 26, 60, 80–81, 134–5, 159;
and Europa, 216;
and dedications at Greek sites, 32–3;
poems and myths, 36–7, 246–51, 267, 273–4, 2.82–3;
in Homer, 47–78, 339–44, 345–8;
and Egypt, 27, 93, 267–8, 342;
on Rhodes at Ialysos, 60, 166;
Melos, Thera and Cythera, 60;
ships and cargoes, 93, 143, 345–8;
and sickles, 293;
and Kommos, 341–2
Pieria, in north Syria, 119, 258;
in Macedon, 119
Pindar, and Pillars in west, 208;
on Cilician cave and ‘Arima’, 307–8;
on Typhon in west, 315;
his effusions on Etna, 316–18
Pithekoussai, off Italy, 140–44, 176–7;
in Tunisia, 146–7;
and Daedalus, 198–9;
and volcanic features, 315, 336;
and Typhon, 315–17
Plato, on gods and Giants, 321
Pliny the Elder, and dwindling seed, 330
Pomponius Mela, accurate about Corycian Cave, 309–10
Poseidonius, and Arimoi, 307
a second, later one at Ras el-Bassit, 97–8, 258
Potamoi Karon, probably Al Mina, 106–7, 139–40
pottery, absence of figurative art, 48;
networks in Aegean, 51–2;
use and carriers in Levant, 59–61, 68, 79, 91, 95–8;
trading, 65–6, 75, 91–2, 93–4;
important finds at Al Mina, 104–6, 108, 109–11;
early renewed contact with Italy and West, 126–33, 135;
alphabetic inscriptions on, 137–8, 157, 170;
important finds on Ischia, 141–3, 151–5;
at Cumae, 148–50;
at Carthage, 145;
on Rhodes, 166;
sex and horses on pottery, 170
Prometheus, his myths’ locations, 186–7
Ptolemy I, ravages Al Mina, 107
Puteoli, and Giants, 324–5
Pydna, 6
Pyramus, river in Cilicia, 80, 98, 225, 239
Python, at Delphi, 366
Que, Assyrian name for Cilicia, and Greek raids, 30–31;
Ras el-Bassit, and Greek pottery, 52;
as ‘Cape of the Rocks’, 97;
as a later Posideion, 97–8, 106, 259
Ras ibn Hani, and the ‘White Harbour’, 96
Ras Kasroun, lake and Zeus Kasios, 267–9
Ras Shamra, or Ugarit, 96–7
Remus, 23;
at school, 137
Rhodes, and Phoenicians, 60;
and sea-routes, 69;
Pottery abroad, 79, 82, 152, 155, 157–8;
and Argos, 85;
perhaps at Posideion, 85;
in c. 850–700 BC, 165–6;
Rio Tinto, and Odyssey, 124
Rome, and Phoenicians, 23;
‘Origins’ of, 23;
and Euboean pots, 133;
and salt-flats, 133
Romulus, 23;
at school, 137
Runza, or Hittite Runt, 312
Sabouni, near Al Mina, 104, 264, 274
Salamis, Cyprus, royal burials, 74;
pottery in tombs, 74–5
Samaria, and Assyrians, 19;
Samaritans, worshipping Yahweh, 19
Samos, sanctuary of Hera and Eastern dedications, 32;
pottery abroad, 82;
and at Al Mina, 108;
and Chalcis, 164;
and bones at Panaima, 194–5
Samson, similar to Heracles, 204
Sandon, god in Cilicia, 80
Sant’ Imbenia, on Sardinia, 128–9, 132
Saphon, the Jebel Aqra, 264–5;
in Israel, 267;
in Egypt, 270;
and Typhon Sappho, and Adonis, 243, 251
Sapuna, the Jebel Aqra, 257–8
Sardara, and Cypriot bronzes, 125–6
Sardinia, and Phoenicians, 22, 127–9;
exports in West, 126–7;
and Cyprus, 127
Sargon, king and garden, 27–8, 85
Sariseki, 83
Saturn, eats children, 296
Saurias, of Samos, ‘inventor’ of drawing, 10
scent, ancient uses, 9, 82, 155
Scyros, and Euboeans, 67–8, 171
Seleuceia, in north Syria, 98;
and martyred Jews, 256;
founding of, 260
Seleucus, his capital, 98; 260;
and Giants, 322
Semiramis, in Makran desert, 187
Sennacherib, king, 86–7, and his monuments, 192–3;
destruction of Babylon, 352–3; 376
Sertorius, finds a Giant, 193–4
Shalmaneser III, conquers north Syria, 102
Sicels, and Laertes in Homer, 121–2, 131
Sicily, and Daedalus, 200–202;
and Heracles, 208;
and Adonis, 252;
Sidon, and Kition, 22;
rivalry with Tyre, 22;
only Phoenician city in Homer, 47, 346–7;
pottery-kilns, 93;
claims to Cadmus, 217;
and Delphi, 217
Sindos, near Thessalonica, and Euboean goods, 62
Sipylus, and Niobe, 337
Sodom, and aetiology, 374–5
Solfatara, crater of, 323–4
Solinus, on Giants, 326
Soloi, and metals, 82;
and Argos, 238
Spain, and Phoenicians, 23–6, 127
Statala, and Typhon, 305–6
Suksu, Tell Sukas, 95–6
Sulcis, on Sardinia, 147–8;
and Euboean potery, 153
Symeon the Younger, pillar-saint, 263–4
Syrian Gates, 84
Tammuz, in Jerusalem, 246;
in Byblos, 246;
at Afqa, 248;
on Cyprus, 249;
Tarentum, in 706 BC, 164
Tarhunta, storm god, 273, 276–7, 368
Tarshish, at Huelva, 26
Tarsus, called Tarzu, 79, 192;
and Pegasus, 221;
and Perseus, 221
Tel Rehov, and Greek pottery, 59, 91
Tell Afis, find of Greek pottery fragments, 52
Tell Defenneh, papyrus-letter at, 266–7
Tell Hadar, find of Greek pottery fragments, 52
Tell Tayinat, and land routes, n 2–13
Tethys, in Homer, 350
Thasos, island and Phoenicians, 32, 165
Thebes, in Egypt and Homer, 347–8
Theocritus, and Adonis, 242
Theopompus, and Mopsus, 237
Thesprotia, and Odysseus, 344
Thon, Egyptian in Homer, 343
Thucydides, and athletic nudity, n;
and Euboean settlement, 162;
and Zancle, 285–6
Tiglath Pileser III, king 17–18;
at Gaza, 19;
pressure on Phoenicians, 24, 26;
conquers in Syria, 117
Timaeus, 201;
and sickle of Cronos, 291
Timnath Serah, and Joshua, 374
Titans, 200, 319–20, 349–50, 359;
aetiology, 372
Titans, in Homer, 349–50
Di Toledo, Pietro, and Giants, 325
Torone, and Euboeans, 62
Torre Galli, in Calabria, 128, 156
Toscanos, in Spain, and Euboean pottery, 148
‘Town of Iauna’, probably Al Mina, 107
and Zeus
Kasios, 260–63
Trapani, and Cronos’ sickle, 292–3
‘Travelling heroes’, returning in legend
in real life, tenth to eighth century BC, 40
Triptolemus, travelling hero, 213, 376
Tunisia, and Euboeans, 145–7
Tutammu, king of Kinalua in 740 BC, no, 113
Typhon, in Lake Bardawil, 268;
fighting Zeus, 298–318;
in West, 317, 330, 335, 366, 372;
in Hesiod, 365–6;
and Hipposthenes, 379
Tyre, and colonies;
and Greek pottery, 68–9, 93, 94–5;
winds at sea, 69–70;
imports of horses, 99;
and Cadmus, 217;
and Baal Saphon, 266
Unqi, in north Syria, 17, 18, 101–2, 321, 323, 330, 372
Utica, and Phoenicians, 145;
and a Giant, 330
Vedas, and Indian society, 16
Virgil, and Daedalus, 198;
and Heracles in Rome, 205;
and Turnus with Io, 212
Volterra, founds Populonia, 134
Warikas, ruler near Adana, 229;
and ‘Hiyawa’, 231;
not a Euboean ‘Euarchos’, 234
Woolley, Leonard, digs at Al Mina, 103–4, 110;
on warrior-traders, 112
Xanthus, of Lydia, on travelling ‘Moxos’, 233;
on ‘Arimous’
and Typhon, 305
Xenophon, in Cilician Plain, 78;
route into Syria, 83–4;
gods in his narrative, 340;
and aetiology, 375
Xi’an, old capital of Zhou, 16
Yaba, wife of Tiglath Pileser III, her burial, 28
Yahweh, and Baal, 267;
and ‘dragon of the sea’, 298;
punishes gross sodomy, 374–5
Zancle, and sickles, 284–7, 379
Zariadres–Zarir, and Persian legends, 185–6
on Crete, 363–5;
Zeus Betylos, probably Zeus Kasios, 261
Zeus Kasios, 260–72;
in Egypt and western Mediterranean, 270–71; 295
‘Zeus of Victory’, in south Cilicia, 310–11
Zhou, ruling in China before 771 BC, 13
Zincirli, languages at, 101
Zoroastrians, and ages of metals, 367