The book of the ancient Greeks: An introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.Mills, Dorothy
Philosophy
The book of the ancient Greeks: An introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.
Mills, Dorothy
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.; Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
Athens; situation and appearance, 190 ff.; classes of people, 194;
burnt by Xerxes, 161; burnt by Mardonius, 168; during Persian War,
144; Long Walls, 173, 298; fortifications of, 172; becomes an empire,
183; enemies of, 291 ff.; during Peloponnesian War, 296 ff.; downfall
of, 315
Athos, Mount, 126
Arrian, 334, 349, 351, 353
Assembly; Spartan, 79; Athenian, 210, 299
B
_Banquet_ of Xenophon, 225, 412
Bema, 210
Brasidas, 301
Byzantium, 110, 175
C
Cadmus, 324
Callimachus, 403
Caryatid, 280
Cecrops, 91
Cerameicus, 204
Chaeronea, 332
Chios, 112, 125, 202
Chiton, 195
Chlamys, 196
Cimon, 93
Citizenship, Greek ideals of, 73 ff.
City-State, 70 ff.
Cleon, 301
Clio, 49
_Clouds_ of Aristophanes, 300, 412
Colonies, 108 ff.; Ionian, 110 ff.; in Italy, 113; in Sicily, 113; in
Egypt, 113
_Constitution of the Lacedaemonians_ of Xenophon, 88
Corinth; council at, 145; urges Sparta to make war on Athens, 291;
fall of, 408
Crete, 6 ff.; legends of, 7 ff.; dress, 11; writing, 15; religion,
13; life in, 16 ff.; amusements, 18
Crito, 374
Croesus, 100 ff.; conquers Ionian colonies, 115; war with Cyrus, 116
Cunaxa, 319
Cylon, 103
Cyrus the Great, 115; conquers Sardis, 116; conquers Ionian colonies,
117
Cyrus the Younger, 318 ff.
D
Daedalus, 8
Darius, 118 ff.; Scythian expedition of, 118 ff.; determines to
invade Greece, 124, 126
Delos, 128; Confederacy of, 180
Delphi, 43; oracle at, 57 ff.; Treasury of Athenians at, 134
Demeter, 54 ff.
Demosthenes, 335 ff.; 412
Deucalion, 42
Diogenes, 346
Dionysus, 232
Dodona, 57
Dorians, 75
Draco, 98
Drama, 233
Dramatists; Aeschylus, 390; Aristophanes, 393; Euripides, 392;
Sophocles, 392
Dress; Athenian, 195; Cretan, 11; Homeric, 28
E
_Economist_ of Xenophon, 198, 215, 216, 412
Education; Athenian, 221 ff.; Spartan, 84 ff.
_Electra_ of Euripides, 393, 412
Eleusis, 54, 220
Elysian Fields, 44
Empire; Athenian, 183, 282; Alexander's, 398, 406
Epaminondas, 325 ff.
Ephors, 80
Erechtheum, 279
Eretria; joins Ionian revolt, 123; burnt by Persians, 128
Euclid, 404
Euripides, 39, 109, 226, 234, 238, 300, 392 ff., 402, 412
Evans, Sir Arthur, 12
F
_Funeral Speech_, 187
G
Games; Isthmian, 61; Olympic, 60 ff.; Pythian, 61
Gordian Knot, 347
Greece; divisions of, 37; trees of, 37; products of, 38; climate of,
39
Greek Art, 394 ff.
Greek Characteristics, 40
Greek Spirit, 102, 358
H
Hades, 54 ff.
Hecataeus, 112
Hellenic Period, 399
_Hellenica_ of Xenophon, 315,316, 327, 412
Hellespont, 141
Hellenistic Age, 398 ff.
Helots, 76
Hephaestus, 50
Hera, 47
Hermes, 49, 106
_Hermes_ of Praxiteles, 222, 395
Herodas, translation from Mime III, 228 ff.
Herodotus, 39, 78, 111, 115, 117, 118 ff., 136 ff., 174, 282, 385
ff., 412
Hestia, 51, 52, 199
Himation, 196
Hipparchus, 106
Hippias, 106, 128
_Hippolytus_ of Euripides, 234, 412
Historians; Herodotus, 385 ff.; Plutarch, 389; Thucydides, 386 ff.;
Xenophon, 388
Homer, 22, 58, 112, 225, 411
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