Other numerals refer to pages of this volume. For the speakers in each Dialogue see that Dialogue _passim_ and the Introductions. (The ‘Three Pythian Dialogues’ are quoted under that designation See p. 52.) A. Academy, Academic, the School founded by Plato in ‘the most beautiful suburb of Athens’ (Thuc. ii. 34), 65, 104, 178, 264. Acanthus, Acanthian, a town of the Chalcidice, 94, 95. Achaeans, 102. Achaeus, 95. Achĕron, a river of the lower world, 227. Achilles, 294. Admētus, king of Pherae in Thessaly, and husband of Alcestis, 132. Adōnis (‘Gardens of Adonis’ were cut flowers planted in pots), 199. Adrasteia, a name for Nemesis, ‘the unescapable’, 207. Aegīna, an island in the Saronic Gulf, opposite to Athens, 99. Aegon, 85. Aegos Potami, a river, and in later times a town, in the Chersonese, famous for the sea-battle of 405, in which Lysander defeated the Athenian fleet, 88. Aemiliānus, a rhetorician, 134, 135. Aeolian, 121. Aeolĭdae, 132. Aeschylus, tragic poet of Athens, (525-456), 67, 132, 162, 265. Aesop of Samos, writer of fables (fl. 570), a freedman of Iadmon of Samos, 94, 192. Aetna, Mount, in Sicily, 271. Aetolians, 92. Agamemnon, 125, 230. Agathŏclēs, 193. Agāvē, daughter of Cadmus, and mother of Pentheus, 226. Agenorĭdas, 13. Agesianax (or Hegesianax), a poet, probably of Alexandria, third century, 260, 261. Agesilaüs II, the lame king of Sparta, reigned 398-361 (see his _Life_) 11, 13, 91. Aglaonīcē, 130. Aglaŏphon, 166. Agrigentum (Acragas), a town on the south coast of Sicily, 184. Aïdoneus (Hades), 77. Ajax, 193, 230. Alcaeus, of Lesbos, lyric poet (fl. 600), 118. Alcibiădes 450-404, Athenian politician, 19, 183. Alcman, lyric poet of Sparta (fl. 630), 297. Alcmēna, wife of Amphitryon and mother of Hercules; (on her sanctuary, in a grove near Thebes, see Pausan. ix. 16. 4), 11, 12, 13. Alĕüs, 12. Alexander, the Great, 95, 192, 233. Alexis, of Thurii, poet of the so-called ‘Middle Attic Comedy’, fourth century, 137. Aloădes, Otus and Ephialtes, giant sons of Iphimedeia, wife of Aloeus (_Od._ xi. 307 foll., and _Il._ v. 385), 289. Alopĕcus, 109. Alphēüs, a river of Arcadia and Elis, 160. Alyattes, king of Lydia and father of Croesus (d. 560), 96. Alyrius, 100. Amēstris, 235. Ammon, the temple of Zeus Ammon in an oasis of the Libyan Desert to the N.W. of Egypt, 117, 120. Ammonius, an Athenian philosopher of the first century A. D., the instructor of Plutarch. A speaker in the First and Third Pythian Dialogues. _See also_ 298, and cp. Sympos. 3, 1, 2; 8, 3; 9, 1, 2, 5, 14; and _Life of Themistocles_, end. Amphiaraüs of Argos, prince and seer, who accompanied the Seven Chieftains against Thebes, and was swallowed up by the earth there, 121. Amphictyons, ‘Dwellers around’, whose council met at Thermopylae and at Pylaea, a suburb of Delphi, 95, 110.