Index
As in Volumes One and Two, the index, compiled by the editors, is meant to give some
clues and keys to the sequence of thoughts and ideas developed over the years in Fergus
Millar’s articles on the Greek world, the Jews and the East: names, institutions, events, and
dates are all subservient to this principle.
Aelia Capitolina ( Jerusalem), –,
Amnesia of Semitic culture, xiii
Aniconic cults of a supreme God in Syrian
region, –
Arabs/Arabioi/Arabes
— ascribed common genealogical origins
with Jews because of circumcision, ,
,
—Christian use of identification of ‘‘Sara-
cens’’ as ‘‘Ishmaelites’’ to claim a share
with Arab peoples in true inheritance
of Abraham, –, ,
—genealogy of, not supplied from within
Graeco-Roman mythology, but derived
from Jewish biblical tradition, –;
supplied by Josephus, – passim,
–,
—identified by Josephus: with Nabatae-
ans (but not with Idumaeans), –,
–; not in Bible (I. Eph‘al), with
Ishmaelites, –
—as term applied to a variety of peoples,
–
Asia and the classical world: aspects of
relationship between, –; debt of
early Greece to ‘‘Asia,’’ –, ; as
free zone for Western imagination,
–; and history of Babylonia from
Alexander to Muhammad still to be
written, ; Iran, our tenuous grasp
of its religious, cultural, and social his-
tory, –, ; official use of Greek
in edicts of Asoka from Kandahar (Af-
ghanistan), –; Plutarch describes
Alexander’s mission as civilizing, –
; tax receipt in Greek from Bactria,
; uncertainty about existence of
exchange between classical world and
India, –; western imperialist and
colonialist (but not racialist) outlook
on,–,Berytus: as earliest and most substantial
island ofRomanitas,,–,–
, ; and Heliopolis, –; and law
schools, –, , –
Bostra, –Caesarea ( Judaea), –; island ofRoma-
nitasrevealed in recently discovered
inscriptions,