196–203, 204–5, 209;Symposium 15,
118, 122, 125, 193–5, 196, 198;
Theaetetus 191;Timaeus 215
Pliny, the elder 245, 248, 252, 254, 258,
268
Plutarch 43–4, 80, 125, 127, 131, 162,
238, 239, 242, 248, 262
Polybius 45, 73–4, 87, 88
Polyclitus of Argos 245–8, 256, 258,
260, 262
Polygnotus 104, 235
Pope, Alexander 15, 19–20
Praxiteles 256–8, 258
Protagoras 115, 191–2
Pythagoras of Samos 188, 216
Quintilian 248
religion and the gods 93–111, 132–5,
157, 195, 214
rhetoric 43, 131, 134, 164, 168–71, 174,
175, 191, 204
Rome, Roman 45, 89, 90, 91, 258, 264
Salamis, battle of 59, 66, 78, 99, 150, 174
Sacred Band 125
sanctuaries 1, 47, 98–104, 238
Sappho 141–2
satyr-play 145, 146
satyrs 182, 194, 195, 270
scepticism 192, 212
Schliemann, Heinrich 5–6, 7, 8
Seneca 158
Simonides 59
slaves and slavery 54, 62, 105, 123, 134,
135–9, 146, 166, 212
Socrates 65, 188–95; burlesqued by
Aristophanes 167, 192, 193;
characterised in the Symposium
193–5; daimonium 116; and Delphic
oracle 104; and democracy 192–3;
and gods 107–8, 192, 195; at leisure
116–17; on love 121, 199; his method
189–91; Plato’s Socrates 168, 189,
192, 196; Silenus figure 194;
sophrosyne 194–5; trial of 193, 200;
virtue is knowledge 191
Solon 37, 49–50, 131, 136
Sophists 168–9, 189, 191–2
Sophocles 145, 146, 148, 149, 154–9,
161; works: Antigone 154–5; Electra
161–2; Oedipus the King 155–9
Sparta: constitution and ethos 53–6,
105, 114, 116, 125–7, 132–3, 142,
227; culture 55–7, 133, 142, 237;
in Persian Wars 59–61; in
Peloponnesian War 68–70, 104;
Spartan League 70–2; decline 86–7;
stasis 41, 169
stichomythia 160
Stoics 116, 209–12
symposium 117–21, 123Thales 188
theatre 63, 71, 89, 99–100, 146–8, 175
Themistocles 59, 104
Theocritus 182
Theophrastus 214
Thespis 59, 145, 146, 149
Thucydides 1, 39–42, 227, 237–8;
compared with Herodotus 40; on
Pericles 65, 68, 69, 239; scientific
purpose 42; speeches in 42, 190; on
stasis 41, 170; style 168, 169–72
tragedy 20, 45, 133–4, 145–63, 164, 166–8
trittys and tribe 51–2, 61, 132, 145
Tyrtaeus 55, 72women 62, 71, 105, 115, 127–35, 141,
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