Greece -- History; Greece -- Politics and government; Imperialism
Athens, life in, 11 _f._;
empire of, a despotism, 23 _f._;
relation of, to allies, 24 _f._;
relation of, to cleruchies, 30;
inability of, to grant citizenship to allies, 30 _f._;
refuses to enter Achæan league, 32;
size of, 42;
size of empire of, 42;
sphere of interests of, 43;
empire of, compared with British empire, 43;
funeral customs of, 43 _f._;
institutions of, 49 _ff._;
judicial system, 50 _f._;
competition of citizens in, 58;
failure of, in foreign politics, 58, 61;
slavery in, 61;
absence of leisure in, 61;
grain supply of, 62;
raw materials of, imported, 62;
nation of noblemen, 65;
obligations of wealth in, 65;
the "school of Hellas," 65;
sea-power of, 66 _f._;
cost of sea-power of, 68 _ff._,
in lives, 70;
allies of, grievances of, 70 _ff._;
imperial litigation of, 72;
land policy of, 72 _f._;
promotes mediocrity, 73 _f._;
reputation of, 221;
neutrality of, 242.
Augustus, in Egypt, 154;
becomes Pharaoh, 154.
Autocracy, incompleteness of, 4.
Autonomy, urban in Greece, 96.
Bactria, Greek kingdoms in, 188, 193.
Bambyce, church at, 197.
Berenice, of Cyrene, 231.
Berenice, of Egypt, becomes wife of Antiochus II, 186, 230;
murdered 187.
Boeotarchs, 27.
Boeotia. _See_ League.
Branchidæ, Apollo of, 128.
Buildings, funds for, at Athens, 71.
Cæsarion, 153.
Callimachus, court poet, 160.
Capitalistic régime, in Plato, 106.
Carthage, 155.
Cassander, 219.
Charlemagne, 5.
China, contact of, with Hellenism, 192 _f._
Chremonidean War, 227.
Cinadon, conspiracy of, 91 _ff._
Cities, and freedom, 7 _ff._;
and culture, 7 _ff._;
in modern sense, 10;
contrast of, with country, 11 _ff._
City-states, relation of, to ethne, 6;
described, 9;
agrarian character of, 9;
commerce and industry of, 10;
family character of, 13 _f._;
care of, for dead, 14 _ff._;
laws of, 16 _f._;
biographies of, 17;
subordinated to districts, 29;
combined in territorial states, 33;
reconciled with imperialism, 36;
ultimate political units of Aristotle, 112;
Aristotle's view of, 121 _f._;
founded by Alexander, 133 _f._;
founded by Seleucus, 196,
by his successors, 196, 199, 205;
in Egypt, 171;
made out of priestly communities, 200;
racial fusion in, in Asia, 206;
at once nations and municipalities, 209;
loss of leadership of, 227 _f._;
as federal units, 237 _f._;
eclipse of, 243.
Civil administration, at Athens, 54 _ff._
Cleomenes, career of, 241 _f._
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