Æschylus at court of Hiero, 113, 129; and the Oriental host, 136; the drama of, 174; the “Persæ,” 176; the poet of Marathon, 177; number of plays, 182; in the “Frogs” of Aristophanes, 184 Æsculapius, 70 Ætolian League, 237 Agamemnon, tomb of, 13, 29; worship of, 41; in the Iliad, 49, 58; in tragedy, 181 Agariste, 109 Agathocles, 250 Agathon, 227, 239 Agelâdas of Argos, 147 Agesilaus, King of Sparta, 81, 85, 200, 228, 241 Agias (statue), 169, 218 Agis, King of Sparta, 85, 93 Agora, the, 167 _Aidōs_, 10, 137, 187 Ajax, 147, 176 Alaric the Goth, 170, 262 Alcæus, 119, 121 Alcamenes, 70, 159 “Alcestis” of Euripides, 179 Alcibiades, 78, 99, 144, 146, 170, 195, 196 Alcinous, 48 Alcmæonids, the, 99, 115, 116 Alcman, 88, 104 Alexander the Great, career of, 11; romantic, 180; Agesilaus and, 201; Lysippus sculptor to, 218; and the temple at Ephesus, 221; portraiture on coinage, 226; Macedon under, 237, 241-245; in art, 245-247 Alexandria, 243; laid out by Greek architects, 247; commerce, 247; the greatest city, 247; library of, 248; culture, 248; the Museum, 248; and poetry, 249 Amazons, battle of (sculpture), 222 Amen-Ra, 251 Ammon, 243 Amphictyons, 72 Amphidamas, 63, 76 Amphipolis, 240 Anacreon, 113, 121, 122, 129 Anaxagoras, 145, 146 Anaximander, 122 Ancestor-worship, 30, 34, 50 Andromache, 55, 59 Animal deities, 65 “Answerers,” 174 Antenor’s “Harmodius and Aristogeiton,” 115 Anthela, 72 Anthropomorphic religion, 67 Antigone, 176, 178 Antioch, 251 Antiochus the Great, 116 Antiphon, 229 Anytus, 232 Apelles, 213, 223, 242, 245 Aphaia, temple of, Ægina, 147 Aphrodite in Homer, 50; worship of, in Corinth, 108; on the Parthenon frieze, 155; in fourth-century art, 211; the Cnidian Aphrodite, 213, 214; in Alexandria, 251; Aphrodite of Melos, 251 Apollo, the coming of, 65-74; the Apollo Belvedere, 71; Apollo of Delos, 112; on the Parthenon frieze, 155; temple of Phigaleia, 169; statue at Delphi, 169; and Orestes in drama, 181; in fourth-century art, 211; Apollo Sauroctonos, 217; Palatine Apollo, 218; and Niobe, 222; “Apollo and Marsyas,” 216 Apollonius the Rhodian, 249 Apoxyomenus, 81, 218 Arcadians, the, 206, 207 Arcady, 167 Archelaus, 239 Archilochus, 104, 121, 122 Archimedes, 248 Architecture, prehistoric, 24; Doric, 106; temples, 161; the Parthenon, 161-163; the Acropolis, 163, 165; the Erechtheum, 165-167; other Athenian buildings, 167-168; other Greek buildings, 168-171; fourth-century, 226; the Corinthian order 226; Græco-Roman, 263 _Archons_, 117 Areian Hill, 117 Areopagus, Solon and the, 100; its powers, 117; its influence, 133; under democracy, 141; power taken away by Pericles, 142; meeting-place, 167 Ares, 77, 154; the Ludovisi, 220 Arethusa, 131; coins, 225 Arginusæ, 195, 232 Argives, the, 109 Argonautic expedition of Jason, 249 Argos, 28, 109, 245 Ariadne, 15
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