Wherever the Romans went they carried with them the habits and the culture of the people whom they had conquered. And the greatest and most precious thing the Greeks had to teach the world was, ‘the just consideration of the truth of things everywhere.’ INDEX Achæans, the, 73. Achilles, and Briseis the Fair-cheeked, 32; fatal quarrel with Agamemnon, 34; the horses of, 44; Hector slain by, 48 _et seq._; death of, 52. Acrisius, king of Argos, 18; killed by Perseus, 29. Acropolis at Athens, the, 97. Admetus, king, 186. Ægis of Athens, the, 23, 30. Ægospotami, disaster at, 261. Æolians, the, 73. Æschines, lawsuit against Demosthenes, 349. Æschylus, 172, 200. Agamemnon, king, 33, 34. Agesilaus, king of Sparta, 278, 279. Alcibiades, 232–236; friendship with Socrates, 236, 238, 240, 243; expedition to conquer Sicily, 244–248; flight to Sparta, 247–248; betrayal of Athenians to the Spartans, 248; return to Athens, 255; Antiochus’ disobedience, 258; death of, 263. Alexander the Great, at battle of Chæronea, 307; and his horse Bucephalus, 309; conquests in Greece, 312 _et seq._; and Diogenes, 312; conquest of Persia, 314, 315 _et seq._; cutting of the Gordian knot, 318; illness of, 319; defeat of Darius at Issus, 322; treatment of Darius and his wife and family, 323, 327; siege of Tyre by, 325; defeat of Darius at Gaugamela, 328; burning of Persepolis by, 331; pursuit of Darius, 334; treatment of Philotas, 335; slays his foster-brother, 336; conquests in India, 338; victory over King Porus, 338; wounded at siege of the citadel of Malli, 342; east and west united by, 345; death of, 345. Alexander, king of Thessaly, Pelopidas’ expedition against, 282. Amphictyonic Council, the, 94. Amphipolis, surrender of, 228. Andromache and Hector, 41, 50, 51, 52. Andromeda and the sea-monster, 26. Antinous, 67. Antiochus, 258. Antipater, 350. Aphrodite, 4, 40. Apollo, 4, 11, 35, 46, 76, 79, 95; and Hyacinthus, 16. Arachne, story of, 13. Archias, 273, 274, 275; and Demosthenes, 350. Archidamus, invasion of Attica by, 205; siege of Plataea under, 210–213. Arginusæ, battle of, 259. Argos, war with Sparta, 232. Argus, the hound, 64. Aristagoras, 122, 123, 124, 126. Aristides, 138, 140–144, 148, 168, 170, 179, 180, 185, 188. Aristodemus, 89. Aristogiton, 113. Aristomenes and the fox, 91. Aristophanes, 200, 234. Aristotle, 311. Artaphernes, 122, 123, 127, 129, 130. Artaxerxes, 186, 193; march of Cyrus against, 265; Spartan expedition against, 269. Artemisium, battle of, 161. Athene, 4, 11, 12, 13, 22, 23, 30, 36, 41, 62, 65, 97, 196, 198. Athenian Empire, foundation of, 178.