On Isis and Osiris 259, 327;
Lycurgus 216, 238, 239, 242, 246,
248–50;Malice of Herodotus 319;
Marcellus 152;Nicias 233;An Old
Man in Politics 317–18;Pericles 201,
249;Pythian Oracles 147, 156–8;
Roman Questions 79, 166;On Socrates’
Daimon 154, 209;On the Soul 354;
Themistocles 146, 151, 289;
Theseus 111, 196–8, 316;Virtues of
Women 333
Pluto,seePlouton
Plynteria 209, 232, 307, 343
Pnyx 229
Podaleiros 80
Polemon of Ilium 237
pollution 178–89
Pollux 78
Polyaenus 248
Polybius 147, 256, 278
Polyclitus 75, 272
Polycrates 286
Polygnotus 351
Polypaides 376
Polyphemus 140;see alsoEuripides,Cyclops
polytheism 23–37, 41, 58, 123, 255, 285,
311–12, 317–18 andpassim
Polyxena (Athenian) 300
Polyxena (Euripides,Hecabe) 97, 143, 267
Pomerium 243
pompe ̄ 135, 210
Pontus 321
Porphyry 266–7
Poseidon 43–9, 56, 68–9, 150, 200,
207–8, 211, 222, 225, 227, 243, 254,
318, 380–1, 405, 425, 429, 434;
Asphaleios 269; Erechtheus 294
Hippios 265, 268–73, 275–8
Posidonius 364–5
Pothos 317
Potidaea 376
Potnia 29, 48; Potnia Aswiya 28
Praxiergidae 209, 241
Praxiteles 83, 317, 323
Praxithea 105
prayers 117–31
Presocratics 146
Priam 47, 87
Priene 205
priestesses 50–2, 67, 75, 77, 109–10, 124,
150, 153, 155–6, 180–1, 188, 199–200,
209, 224, 234, 252, 261, 291– 4, 309,
314, 328, 336–8, 343, 355, 359, 392–3,
405, 425;see alsoPythia
priests 30, 34, 44, 50, 65, 75, 80, 82, 109,
120, 124, 136, 154, 156, 163–4, 168,
171–5, 181, 194–200, 215, 234, 239,
255, 257, 260–1, 266, 271, 284, 289,
292, 294, 328, 337, 340, 342–3, 347,
348, 355–6, 358, 360–1, 364, 366, 368,
410–12, 432
Procles 240
Proclus 129, 196–200, 316, 353, 367, 394
Procne 315
Proerosia 199
Proetus (Proitos) 134, 330
Prometheus 125, 140
prophets 155– 6;see alsodivination
Propylaia 405–6
prorrhesis 186–7
prosodion 120–1, 129, 131
prostitution, sacred 312, 319–23; see also
hetairai
prothesis 87, 417
Prytaneion 302
psyche 386
Ptolemaia 254, 256
Ptolemies 31, 253–63; Ptolemy I Soter
256, 259– 62; Ptolemy II Philadelphus
254, 260–1; Ptolemy III Euergetes
I 255–6, 260–2; Ptolemy IV
Philopator 253, 256–7, 260, 262;
Ptolemy V Epiphanes 261–2; Ptolemy
VIII Euergetes II (Physcon) 257;
Ptolemy IX Philometor (Lathyrus) 261;
Ptolemy X Alexander I 261; Ptolemy XII
Neos Dionysus (Auletes) 256; Arsinoe
II 257, 261–2; Arsinoe III 260–1;
Berenice I 261; Berenice II 261;
Cleopatra II 257; Cleopatra III 257,
261; Cleopatra VII 254, 257, 262
purification, purity 172, 178–89,
339–40
Pyanepsia 191, 305
Pyanepsion, Pyanopsion 198, 212, 305
Pylos 133, 137, 139, 328
Pythagoras 31, 50–1, 146
Pythagoreans 30, 86, 143, 397
Pythia 50, 105–6, 111–12, 147, 149–50,
153–7, 236;see alsoDelphi
Pythian Games 155, 230
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