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
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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.
Homeric Age, 27 ff.; dress, 28; palaces, 28 ff.; furniture, 30 ff.
_Homeric Hymns_, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 58, 281, 411
Houses; Athenian, 198 ff.; Cretan, 16; Homeric, 28
Hydria, 203
Hyperboreans, 43
I
_Iliad_, 6, 8, 19, 20, 22, 46, 68, 106, 402, 411
Ionian Colonies, 110, 202; conquered by Croesus, 115; conquered by
Cyrus, 117; appeal to Athens for help, 174
Ionian Revolt, 122
_Iphigenia in Tauris_ of Euripides, 238 ff.; 393, 412
Isthmian Games, 61
K
King's Peace, 317
_Knights_ of Aristophanes, 300, 412
Knossos, 8; palace of, 10; destruction of, 20
Krater, 203
L
Lacedaemonians, 75
Laconia, 75
Lade, 124
Laurium, 156
Lawgivers; Draco, 98; Lycurgus, 76 ff.; Solon, 96 ff.
Lekythos, 203
Leonidas, 148
Lesbos, 112
Leuctra, 327
Long Walls, 173, 298, 316
Lyceum, 383
Lycurgus, 76 ff.; travels of, 77; at Delphi, 78; government of, 76
ff.; death of, 90
Lydia, 114
M
Macedonians, 329
Magna Graecia, 113
Mantinea, 327
Map-makers, 112
Marathon, 130 ff.
Mardonius, 125, 137, 166, 168
Mediterranean, 3 ff.
_Memorabilia_ of Xenophon, 278, 373
Metopes, 282
Minoan Civilization, 8
Minos, 7
Miletus, 111, 202; siege of by Lydia, 114; revolt against Darius,
122; fall of, 124
Militiades, 131
Muses, 49
Music, 227
Mycenae, 25 ff.; 32
Mycenaean Civilization, 5
N
Naucratis, 113
Naxos, 122, 127
Nicias, 302
O
_Odyssey_, 7, 8, 19, 22, 29, 30, 50, 402, 411
_Oedipus at Colonus_ of Sophocles, 392, 412
_Oedipus the King_ of Sophocles, 392, 412
Oligarchy, 94
Olympia; oracle at, 57; statue of Zeus at, 64
Olympic Games, 60 ff.
Olympus, 43, 46
Oracle; origin of, 56; oracles of Zeus, 57; of Apollo, 57
Oracles; about Homer, 58; given to Lycurgus, 78; to Cylon, 103; to
Spartans, 107; "deceitful answer" to Croesus, 115; of the wooden
walls, 159
Orations; _Funeral Speech_ of Pericles, 187 ff.; of Demosthenes, from
_Third Philippic_, 338; from _Second Olynthiac_, 339; _On the Crown_,
339 ff.
Ostracism, 157
P
Palaestra, 227
Pan, 51, 129, 134
Panathenaic Festival, 204, 217, 283
Parnassus, 42, 49
Parthenon, 280 ff.
Pausanias, Spartan General; at Plataea, 168 ff.; at Byzantium, 175;
suspicious conduct of, 175; death of, 176
Pausanias the Traveller, 25, 64, 69
Pedagogue, 223
Pediment, 277
Peiraeus, 173, 202
Peisistratus, 104 ff.
Pelopidas, 326
Peloponnesian War; causes, 291 ff.; course of war, 296 ff.; Sicilian
Expedition, 305 ff.; defeat of Athens, 315 ff.
Pentathlon, 67
Pericles, 53; early life of, 183; leader of Athens, 185; _Funeral
Speech_ of, 187 ff.; beautifies Athens, 289; policy during
Peloponnesian War, 297; death of, 298; imperial policy of, 298 ff.
Persephone, 54 ff.
_Persians_ of Aeschylus, 163, 412
Persian Wars, 118 ff.; invasion under Mardonius, 125; Marathon, 125
ff.; invasion under Xerxes, 136 ff.; Thermopylae, 148 ff.; Salamis,
161 ff.
_Phaedo_ of Plato, 375, 377
_Phaedrus_ of Plato, 382, 412
Pheidias, 46, 64, 279, 395
Pheidippides, 129, 132
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