210 Index of Persons and Places
Nikandros, eight-century Eurypontid king,
xiii–xv, 70, 76, 89–90, 110, 176, 179
Ockham, William of, 69, 196
Oedipus son of Laius, legendary king of
Thebes, 77
Oitylos on Messenian Gulf, 75, 107–8
Olympia in the Peloponnesus, site of Olympic
Games, xviii, 50, 75–76, 83, 95, 176
Orchomenos in Arcadia, Orchomenians,
xviii, 94, 96, 112, 114, 188
Orchomenos in Boeotia, Orchomenians, 66
Orestes, legendary son of Agamemnon,
115–16, 188
Oresthasion in Arcadian Maenalia, xviii, 75,
95, 107, 109, 112, 116, 182, 186, 188
Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, 96
Page, Denys, 67
Parnon, Mount, on border between Laconia
and Cynouria, 74–75, 93
Pausanias son of Cleombrotus, regent, 50,
160, 170
Pausanias son of Pleistoanax, Agiad king, 3,
50, 146, 171
Pausanias the geographer, 4, 69–79, 94–95,
110–15, 133, 152, 155, 162, 175–76, 182,
186
Peloponnesus, Peloponnesians, 3–4, 11–12,
17, 30, 32, 42, 45–46, 52, 66–69, 71,
76–77, 83, 90, 93–94, 110, 115–34, 151,
165, 167, 170, 176, 180–81, 187, 189, 192
isle of Pelops, 17
Pelops, legendary son of Tantalus, 17, 21
Pephnus on Messenian Gulf, 108
Periander son of Cypselus, tyrant of Corinth,
182
Pericles son of Xanthippus, 35, 40, 160, 162,
164, 190
Persia, Persians, 7, 28, 32–33, 72, 82, 110, 129,
144, 155, 165, 173, 177
Great King (King of Kings), 15–16
Ten Thousand Immortals, 153
Pharis in Laconia, 74, 175
Pheidon, Heraclid king of Argos, 90, 101,
179–80
Pherae (modern Kalamata) on the Messenian
Gulf, xviii, 74–76, 106–8, 113, 175
Phigaleia on the Neda River in western
Arcadia, xviii, 75, 95, 107, 112, 133, 182
Philachaios, 118, 189
Philip of Macedon, 44, 166, 178
Phlius in the Peloponnesus, Phleiasians, 14,
52, 171
Phocis in Central Greece, Phocians, 132
Phoenicia, Phoenicians, 77
Phylarchus the historian, 135, 193
Pindar of Thebes, xv, 14, 41, 65, 71, 73–74,
77, 154, 164, 172–74, 182
Plataea on Cithaeron in Boeotia, Plataeans,
xviii, 33, 103, 130–32, 184
Plato son of Ariston, philosopher, xiii–xv, 1,
4–7, 12, 16, 30–31, 46, 51, 55, 60, 62, 92,
102, 126, 129, 134–35, 146–50, 153–54,
157, 159–61, 164, 170–72, 180, 191
The Laws, 1, 4, 55, 126–27, 144–49,
153, 172
agronómoı, 157
Nocturnal Council, 55
The Republic, 4, 30, 144, 150, 164
Pleistarchus son of Leonidas (I), fifth-century
Agiad king, 51, 70, 170
Pleistoanax son of Pausanias, fifth-century
Agiad king, 50, 170–71
Plutarch of Chaeronea, biographer, xiii, 4–9,
12–14, 16, 23, 26–29, 32, 40, 49, 53–54,
59, 79, 94, 98, 101, 117, 121, 125–28,
134–37, 146–48, 152, 154–57, 161, 164,
168, 171, 174, 183–85, 190–93
Life of Agis, 125–28, 134
Life of Cleomenes, 128, 134
Life of Lycurgus, 5–6, 16, 98, 101, 125,
127–28, 135, 147, 154, 157, 168,
171, 174, 183–85
Pollis the Lacedaemonian, 79
Pollux, legendary son of Tyndareus, 77, 150,
170
Polyaenus of Macedon, 79
Polybius of Megalopolis, historian, xiii–xiv,
26, 35, 51, 94, 126–27, 134–36, 154, 170
Polydorus son of Alcamenes, seventh-century
Agiad king, 53, 70, 98–99, 104–6, 113,
125, 183, 185
Polyneices, legendary son of Oedipus and
Jocasta of Thebes, 77
Pratinus of Phlius, lyric poet, 14, 154
Prokles, scion of the Eurypontid royal line, 69
Prytanis, legendary Eurypontid king, 70, 73
Ptolemy I, Macedonian king of Egypt, 129
Pylos (Koryphasion) on west coast of
Messenia, xviii, 75, 96, 106–7, 111–13,
187
Pythagoras of Samos, 8, 149Rhodes in the Dodecannese, 95, 182–83
Ialysos on, 95, 182
Rome, Romans, xiv, 4–5, 29, 43–44, 48, 52,
61, 64, 103, 137, 144, 152, 168, 184–85
Brutus, 52, 171
tribunes of the plebes, 48, 168