Greece -- History; Greece -- Politics and government; Imperialism
Cleon, on empire of Athens, 23 _f._
Cleopatra, the Great, 152;
and Antony, 153 _f._
Cleruchies, 30.
Cleruchs, in Egypt, 173 _ff._;
position of, 175 _f._;
Egyptianized, 180 _f._;
in Seleucid empire, 201.
Clisthenes, 51.
Comana, in Cappadocia, sacred city of Ma at, 197 _f._,
in Pontus, 198.
Commerce, in Athens, 12.
Committee of Public Safety, 28, 30.
Competition, in Athens, 58 _f._
Constantine, the Great, and deification of rulers, 36.
Constitutions, ancestral, 96 _f._
Cos, battle of, 159, 229.
Council of the Five Hundred, constitution and powers of, 51 _ff._
Crown lands, in Seleucid realm, how disposed of, 204.
Culture, origin of, in cities, 7 _ff._
Cyclades, lost to Egypt, 160.
_See_ League.
Cynocephalæ, battle of, 188.
Cyrene, 229, 231.
Dardanians, invade Macedon, 241.
Deification of rulers, 35 _f._, 127 _ff._, 131 _ff._, 139 _ff._;
real motive of, 145 _f._;
in Egypt, 164 _ff._;
legalized absolutism, 165;
in Asia, 205, 208;
attitude of Antigonus Gonatas toward, 225 _f._
Delos, prices at, fixed in Alexandria, 170.
Demetrius II, protects Epirus, 234;
war of, with leagues, 240 _f._;
death of, 241.
Demetrius Poliorcetes, deification of, 145;
expectations of, 183 _f._;
career of, 219 _f._;
monarchy of, 220 _f._;
king of Macedon, 221 _f._
Demetrius the Fair, king of Cyrene, 229;
murder of, 231.
Democracy, in Athens, connection of, with empire, 41 _f._;
principles of, 45 _ff._;
safeguards of, 50;
rôle of experts in, 58;
not self-indulgent, 68 _ff._;
and mediocrity, 73 _f._;
failure of, at Athens attributed to Sophists, 77 _f._;
hated by Plato, 102.
Demosthenes, on Philip of Macedon, 118.
Divine right of kings, 3.
Ecclesia, constitution of, at Athens, 49;
powers of, 50 _f._;
freedom of discussion in, 53 _f._;
assembly of experts, 57;
functions of, 57;
_agon_ of statesmen, 58.
Education, the vice of the Socratic school, 98.
Egypt, seized by Alexander, 126;
decay of, 180 _f._;
empire of, 234.
Egyptians, view of Alexander as to, 135;
ruled over by Ptolemies, 168;
owned by the Ptolemies, 169;
hatred of, for Ptolemies, 170;
use of, in military service, 170 _f._;
admitted to Ptolemaic army, 180 _f._;
to civil service, 181.
Emperor, defined, 3 _f._
Empire, defined, 1 _ff._;
of Rome, 4;
legally impossible, 25;
how secured, 38;
of Athens, criticism of, 70 _ff._;
of Ptolemies, reasons for, 160 _ff._
Ephorate, compared with Roman tribunate, 83 _f._
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