Chapter 12

Oedipus at Colonusof Sophocles,392,412

Oedipus the Kingof Sophocles,392,412

Oligarchy,94

Olympia; oracle at,57; statue of Zeus at,64

Olympic Games,60ff.

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 Speechof Pericles,187ff.; of Demosthenes, fromThird Philippic,338; fromSecond Olynthiac,339;On the Crown,339ff.

Ostracism,157

P

Palaestra,227

Pan,51,129,134

Panathenaic Festival,204,217,283

Parnassus,42,49

Parthenon,280ff.

Pausanias, Spartan General; at Plataea,168ff.; at Byzantium,175; suspicious conduct of,175; death of,176

Pausanias the Traveller,25,64,69

Pedagogue,223

Pediment,277

Peiraeus,173,202

Peisistratus,104ff.

Pelopidas,326

Peloponnesian War; causes,291ff.; course of war,296ff.; Sicilian Expedition,305ff.; defeat of Athens,315ff.

Pentathlon,67

Pericles,53; early life of,183; leader of Athens,185;Funeral Speechof,187ff.; beautifies Athens,289; policy during Peloponnesian War,297; death of,298; imperial policy of,298ff.

Persephone,54ff.

Persiansof Aeschylus,163,412

Persian Wars,118ff.; invasion under Mardonius,125; Marathon,125ff.; invasion under Xerxes,136ff.; Thermopylae,148ff.; Salamis,161ff.

Phaedoof Plato,375,377

Phaedrusof Plato,382,412

Pheidias,46,64,279,395

Pheidippides,129,132

Philip of Macedon,328; King of Macedonia,330; policy of,330; conflict with Greek states,331ff.; destroys Thebes,332; death of,333

Philippicsof Demosthenes,338,412

Philosophers; Aristotle,72,227,383ff.,412; Plato,380ff.,412; Pythagoras,379; Socrates,361ff; Thales,111,379

Philosophy, Greek,378

Pindar,69,323

Plague in Athens,297

Plataea; aids Athens before Marathon,131; battle of,168

Plato,57,194,225,226,228,363,367,371,373,374,375,377,380ff.,412

Plutarch,75,90,93,96,154,156,158,172,177,178,180,181,185,186,284,298,304,309,310,314,336,337,345,346,389,412

Pnyx,210

Polemarch,94

Politicsof Aristotle,72,384,412

Poseidon,47,92,281

Praxiteles,222,395

Propylaea,278

Protagorasof Plato,225,412

Ptolemy Philadelphia,401

Ptolemy Soter,401

Pyrrha,42

Pythagoras,379

Pythian Games,60

R

Religion; Cretan,13; Greek,44ff.

Republicof Plato,226,381,412

S

Sacred Mysteries,54ff.,220

Salamis,97; battle of,163ff.

Sappho,112

Sardis; taken by Cyrus,116; burnt by Ionians,123; Persian army at,138

Schliemann,23ff.

Science; in Ionia,111; in Alexandria,404ff.

Scythia,118

Senate, Spartan,78

Septuagint,403

Sicily,113

Sicilian Expedition,305ff.

Socrates,278,303,396; early life,361ff.; Socrates and the Sophists,364; Socratic method of teaching,366; accusations against,368; trial off368;Apologyof,368ff.; death of,374ff.

Solon; early life of,96; war over Salamis,97; Archon,98; reforms of,98ff.; travels of100; Solon and Croesus,100ff.

Sophists,364

Sophocles,392,395,402,412

Sparta; situation of,75; government of,76ff.; customs,81ff.; education, 845.; position of women,89; aids Athens in expelling Hippias,107; refusal to join Ionian revolt,123; refuses immediate help before Marathon,129; at Thermopylae,148ff.; jealousy of Athens,172ff.; policy towards Ionian colonies,174; during Peloponnesian War,287ff.; supremacy of,316

Sphacteria,301

Statues;Zeusat Olympia,64;Hermesof Praxiteles,222;Athena Promachos,279,284;Athena Polias,280;Athena Parthenos,283;Sophocles,413

Stoa,193

Strabo,4

Symposium,213

Symposiumof Plato,363,367,412

Syracuse,113,226,405; battle in harbour of,312

T

Temples,14,276ff.; Athena Nike,279; Erechtheum,279; Parthenon,280ff.; Paestum,413

Ten Thousand, March of the,318

Thales,111,379

Theatre,232ff.

Thebes,153,317; early history of,322; legends of,324; supremacy of,325ff.; defeated by Philip of Macedon,332; destroyed by Alexander,346

Themistocles; early life and character,153; at Artemisium,150; builds a navy,155; rivalry with Aristeides,156; at Salamis,161ff.; popularity of,171ff.; fortifies Athens,172; accusations against,176; ostracized,177; at the Persian court,177; death of,178

Theocritus,216

Therma,143

Thermopylae,148ff.

Theseus,7,92,93; ship of,9,374

Thucydides,7,155,181,189,297,302,308,309,314,360,386ff.,412

Tiryns,27;

Trojan War,22,347

Trojan Womenof Euripides,39,300,412

Troy, discovery of,24

Tyrants,102ff.; Cylon,103; Peisistratus,104ff.

W

Waspsof Aristophanes,209,300,412

Women, position of; in Athens,214ff.; in Sparta,89

Writing, Cretan,15

X

Xanthippe,363

Xenophon,88,198,214,215,216,225,278,314,315,318,327,373,388,412

Xerxes,136ff.

Z

Zeus,7,46,52,53,199,231


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