Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World

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1256 Index

Hellenistic Period
agriculture 37, 39
a r t 112–113
building techniques and
materials 160
ceramics and pottery 183
craft s 292
education 384
gender structures and roles
496
inventions 600
literature 659
migration and population
movements 714
military 733
mining, quarrying, and
salt making 748
money and coinage 755,
760
religion and cosmology
857
seafaring and navigation
955
social collapse and aban-
donment 1006
weaponry and armor 1169
weights and measures
1176
helmets
art 108, 117
clothing and footwear 276,
279
religion and cosmology
851 f
weaponry and armor
1163–1165
helots
agriculture 38
foreigners and barbarians
488–489
government organization
530
Helvetii people 709
hemp
clothing and footwear 277
economy 373
textiles and needlework
1079, 1080
hen (Egyptian price unit)
economy 348
money and coinage 753
henna 5, 9
heortai 468
Hephaestus 292
Heptastadion Dike 209, 226
Heqaib stela 900f
Hera 455
Heracleopolis 1124
herbal medicine 550, 551,
556
herbs
adornment 5
agriculture 42
food and diet 482
hunting, fi shing, and gath-
ering 580

herding
agriculture 33, 34
nomadic and pastoral soci-
eties 787, 787f, 788
social organization 1012
herdsmen 787f, 789
Herdsmen Period (Africa)
1122
hereditary chiefs 511
hereditary kings
government organization
515, 518
social organization 1030
hereditary organizations. See
phratries
hereditary posts 1014
hereditary rulers 508
Hermes
a r t 111f
craft s 293
death and burial practices
320
Hermopolis
religion and cosmology 837
war and conquest 1123–
1124
herms 292–293
Herodotus
calendars and clocks 167,
171
children 189
climate and geography
257, 260
clothing and footwear 273
death and burial practices
323–324
education 383
empires and dynasties 409
family 459
foreigners and barbarians
482–484
gender structures and roles
504
government organization
510
health and disease 547
literature 658
migration and population
movements 723–724
scandals and corruption
915
science 950
social organization 1043–
1044
textiles and needlework
1081
war and conquest 1145,
1156
Herod the Great (king of
Judea) 486
Herondas
children 199–200
cities 209–210
Hero of Alexandria
inventions 601
science 942

Herophilus
health and disease 553
science 941
Hesiod
agriculture 36
astronomy 129, 133
calendars and clocks 170
employment and labor
431–432
government organization
527
laws and legal codes 628
literature 656, 657
pandemics and epidem-
ics 826
religion and cosmology 856
scandals and corruption
915
seafaring and navigation
958
storage and preservation
1068
hetaerae 501
Heunebury 219
Heyerdahl, Th or
exploration 446
foreigners and barbarians
484
ships and shipbuilding 975
Hierakonpolis
art 94
cities 206
hierarchical societies 1013,
1042
hieratic script
numbers and counting
800
writing 1185
hieroglyphs
education 377
inventions 595
language 611–612
literature 642, 647
writing 1183–1185, 1192
hill forts
agriculture 36
cities 219
social organization 1029
Hill of Tara 903
hilltop fortress 231
hilltop settlements
climate and geography 261
economy 362
Himalayas
borders and frontiers 144
climate and geography
248–249
himations 279, 281
Himiko (queen of Japan)
empires and dynasties 406
government organization
522
military 730
money and coinage 758
religion and cosmology
845

resistance and dissent 875
scandals and corruption
913
social organization 1026
Himilco 437
Hindu culture
calendars and clocks 168
ceramics and pottery 180
festivals 466
health and disease 549–
550
Hinduism
education 381
family 452
foreigners and barbarians
487
literature 650
religion and cosmology
846
sacred sites 902
slaves and slavery 989
Hindu Kush Mountain Range
248
Hipparchus (tyrant of Athens)
410–411
Hipparchus of Nicaea
astronomy 131
calendars and clocks 166,
171
Hippocrates
health and disease 552,
559–560
inventions 601
numbers and counting
804
science 940
Hippocratic Corpus 940, 941
Hippocratic medicine 548,
549
Hippocratic oath 552
Hippodamus of Miletus 223
hipposandals 891f
Historiae (Tacitus) 664
Historia naturalis (Pliny the
Elder) 827
Historia plantarum (Th eo-
phrastus) 36
Histories, Th e (Herodotus)
death and burial practices
323–324
migration and population
movements 723–724
scandals and corruption
915
science 950
social organization 1043–
1044
textiles and needlework
1081
war and conquest 1156
Histories of Polybius, Th e
(Polybius) 1159–1160
History of Ireland, Th e (Keat-
ing) 478
History of the Peloponnesian
War (Th ucydides) 711

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