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Great Lives from History: The Ancient World

Editor: Christina A. Salowey, Hollins University
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Great Lives from History:
The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 C.E.

Index

A
Aaron, 1-4, 338, 573
Ab excessu divi Augusti (Tacitus), 19, 23, 104, 163, 508, 561, 685, 838
Ab urbe condita libri (Livy), 511, 517, 840
Abhayagiri, 934
Abhidharmakośa (Vasubandhu), 930
Abhidharmasamuccaya (Asanga), 113
Abhijñãānaśākuntala (Kālidāsa), 496
Abishag, 156
Abraham, 4-7, 916
Abram. See Abraham
Absalom, 256
Academy (Plato's), 94, 321, 659, 872, 981. See also Imperial Academy
Achaean League, 227
Achaeus, 65
Achamoth, 919
Acharnēs (Aristophanes), 90, 127
Achilles, 427
Actium, Battle of (31 b.c.e.), 21, 64, 71, 75, 146, 231, 527
"Acts of Pilate" (forgeries), 645
Acts of Thomas, The (Anon.), 880
Ad Decimam, Battle of (532 c.e.), 354
Ad filium (Cato), 192
Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione (Seneca), 767
Ad Marcellam (Porphyry), 688
Ad nationes (Tertullian), 853
Adad-nirari III, 745, 892
Adamites, 700
Adea Eurydice, 598
Adeimantus, 794
Adelphoe (Terence), 850
Administration; Persia, 252
Adonijah, 156, 256, 803
Adonis, 107
Adrianople, Battle of (378 c.e.), 825, 868
Adversus Apollinarem (Gregory of Nyssa), 364
Adversus haereses (Irenaeus), 444
Adversus haereticos. See Commonitoria
Aegospotami, Battle of (405 b.c.e.), 35
Aelius, Lucius, 372
Aelle, 396
Aemilia, 758
Aeneas, 172, 273
Aeneid (Vergil), 273, 302, 528, 604, 939
Aeons (Gnosticism), 918
Æsc. See Oisc
Aeschines, 129, 265
Aeschylus, 7-10, 92, 794, 810, 876. See also Choēphoroi; Hepta
epi Thēbas
; Hiketides; Persai; Prometheus desmōtēs
Aesop, 11-13, 628
Aesopea (Aesop), 12
Aesop's Fables. See Aesopea
Aetia. See Aitiōn
Aetius, 140, 353
Aetnae (Aeschylus), 9
Africa; explorations of, 386-387; map, lxii; trade with Egypt, 334.
See also Geographical Index
Africanus, Scipio. See Scipio Africanus
Africanus Numantinus, Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus. See Scipio Aemilianus
Afterlife, Zoroastrian, 994
Agade. See Akkad
Against All Heresies. See Kata pasōn haireseōn elenkhos
Against Apion. See Contra Apionem
Against Celsus. See Contra Celsum
Against Common Opinions. See Pros tas koinas doxas
Against Heresies. See Adversus haereses
Against the Christians. See Kata Christanōn
Against the Sophists. See Kata tōn sophistōn
Agamemnōn (Aeschylus), 9, 427, 653
Agathe Tyche, 106
Agathocleia, 551
Agathocles, 106, 716
Ageladas, 633, 675
Agesilaus. See Logos eis Agēsilaon Basilea
Agesilaus II of Sparta, 14-17, 304, 969
Agias (Pharsalus), 524
Agiatis, 228
Agis IV, 228
Aglaophon, 678
Agoge, 14
Agoracritus, 635
Agrammes. See Dhanananda
Agrarian reform, Roman, 358
Agricola, Gnaeus Julius, 17-20, 163, 837
Agriculture; Roman, 358, 929; Sumerian, 914
Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius, 20-23, 146, 231, 490, 527
Agrippina the Elder, 22-23, 72, 176, 561
Agrippina the Younger, 23-26, 71, 104, 219, 235, 561, 591, 685, 766
Aha, 557
Aharon. See Aaron
Ahaz, 448
Ahi sā, 355, 925
Ahmose I, 585
Ahmose-Nefertari, 585
Ahriman, 993
Ahura Mazda, 251, 567, 974, 993
Aias (Sophocles), 810
Aiax (Ennius), 301
Aitiōn (Callimachus), 180
Ajax. See Aias
Ājīvikas, 355
Akhenaton, 26-29, 46, 587, 735, 901, 908
Akhetaton, 27
Akiba ben Joseph, 29-32
Akiva ben Joseph. See Akiba ben Joseph
Akkad, 366, 377
Akkadian Dynasty; map, lxx
Alamanni, 351
Alans, 351
Alaric, 352, 825
Albigensians, 700
Alcaeus, 653, 750
Alcamenes, 635
Alcibiades of Athens, 33-35, 801, 884, 968
Alcippus, 872
Alcmaeon, 36-38
Aletheia (Parmenides), 609
Alēthon Diēgēmaton (Lucian), 515
Alexander IV, 720
Alexander Severus, Marcus Aurelius, 484, 488
Alexander the Great, 39-42, 63, 95, 107, 202, 266, 284, 523, 597, 639, 719, 763, 872
Alexandra, 404
Alexandria; anti-Semitism in, 640; Arsinoe II Philadephus and, 107; astronomy at, 815;
Christianity in, 133, 599; cultural center, 314; culture of, 132, 717; foundation of, 40;
Library, 179, 314, 827; mathematics at, 76, 317; medicine at, 199; Museum, 314; science at, 80, 84.
See also Geographical Index
Alexandrian Donations, 75
Alexandrian War (48 b.c.e.), 174, 230
Alexianus, 484
Algebra, 288, 318
Alhazen, 79
Alkēstis (Euripides), 326, 810
Alkmaeon. See Alcmaeon
Allegory, 689; fables and, 629; Scripture as, 641
Almagest. See Mathēmatikē syntaxis
Alphabets; Gothic, 911; Latin, 217; Phoenician, 273
Altar of Artemis (Praxiteles), 694
Altar of Victory, 43
Alyattes, 244
Aman. See Cao Cao
Amarna Letters, 902
Amarna period, 588
Amaterasu, 462, 465
Ambrose, Saint, 42-45, 142, 391, 424, 600, 699, 796, 870
Ambrosius. See Ambrose, Saint
Ambrosius, Aurelius, 42, 395
Ameinias, 608
Amen, 388, 571, 656, 711, 735
Amen-Ra, 26, 45, 588
Amenhotep II, 887
Amenhotep III, 27, 45-49, 901, 908
Amenhotep IV. See Akhenaton
Amida, Siege of (359 c.e.), 776
Amilcar Barca. See Hamilcar Barca
Ammianus Marcellinus, 776
Ammonius Saccas, 668
Amon. See Amen-Ra
Amores (Ovid), 603
Amphictionic Council, 679
Amphitruo (Plautus), 663
Amun. See Amen-Ra
Amyntas, 637, 650
Anabasis. See Kyrou anabasis
Analects, The. See Lunyu
Ānanda, 49-51, 170
Anathoth, shrine of, 453
Anatolius, Treaty of (443 c.e.), 139
Anatomē (Diocles), 278
Anatomika (Herophilus), 410
Anatomy; Alexandrian, 84; Galen and, 348; Greek, 278, 311, 410; Roman, 201
Anaxagoras, 52-54, 326, 620, 633
Anaxandrides, 226, 505
Anaximander, 55-58, 397, 407, 858, 965
Anaximenes of Miletus, 58-60, 349, 858, 965
Anchorites, 62, 790
Andrew, Saint, 472, 624
Andria (Terence), 850
Andromacha (Ennius), 301
Andromachē (Euripides), 327
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The, 394
Anicertus, 686
Animism, 857
Annales (Ennius), 302
Annales (Vellius), 508
Annals. See Ab excessu divi Augusti
Annals, Chinese, 149
Anniceris, 89
Anthony of Egypt, Saint, 60-63, 134
Antichrist; Hippolytus on, 424
Antidosis (Isocrates), 451
Antigonē (Sophocles), 810
Antigonus I Monophthalmos, 63-65, 720, 763
Antigonus II Gonatas, 716, 982
Antigonus Cyclops. See Antigonus I Monophthalmos
Antigonus Doson, 228
Antigonus Monophthalmus. See Antigonus I Monophthalmos
Antigonus the One-Eyed. See Antigonus I Monophthalmos
Antinous, 371
Antiochus I Soter, 310, 716
Antiochus II, 717
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 478
Antiochus of Ascalon, 927
"Antiochus the Aleuad" (Simonides), 793
Antiochus the Great, 65-68
Antipater (successor to Alexander), 63, 267, 598, 720
Antipater of Idumaea, 403
Antipater of Sidon, 545
Antipopes, 425
Antiquarianism; Egyptian, 711; Roman, 928
Antiquitates Judaicae (Josephus), 249, 260, 338, 405, 478
Antiquities of the Jews, The. See Antiquitates Judaicae
Anti-Semitism, 479; Ambrose and, 44
Antisthenes, 68-71, 88, 129, 284
Antonia Minor, 71-73, 217
Antonia the Younger. See Antonia Minor
Antoninus. See Caracalla
Antoninus Pius, 372, 530
Antony, Marc, 20, 71, 73-76, 145, 185, 212, 231, 404, 527, 591, 928
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 75
Anuladevi, 899
Anustubh (poetic meter), 922
Apama, 157
Apeiron (Boundlessness), 56
Aphormai pros ta noēta (Porphyry), 688
Aphrodite, 696, 751
Aphrodite of Knidos (Praxiteles), 696
Apion, 640
Apollinarianism, 361
Apollinaris of Laodicea, 863
Apollo, 221, 695
Apollo Sauroctonos (Praxiteles), 695
Apollodorus (chronicler), 320
Apollodorus of Carystus, 850
Apollonius of Perga, 76-80, 318, 418, 435, 580, 607
Apollonius of Rhodes, 179, 315
Apollonius of Tyana, 460, 482
Apologeticus (Tertullian), 853
Apologia ad Constantinum (Athanasius), 134
Apologia Sōcratis (Plato), 660
Apologia Sōcratous (Xenophon), 968
Apologists, Christian, 331
Apology Against the Arians, An. See Contra Arianos
Apology for His Flight. See Oratio apologetica de fuga sua
Apology of Socrates. See Apologia Sōfcratous
Apology to Constantius, An. See Apologia ad Constantinum
Apomnēmoneumata (Xenophon), 87, 968
Apostle Paul. See Paul, Saint
Apostles, 223, 624, 822
Apostolic Fathers; Clement, 224; Ignatius, 439
Apostolic tradition, 424
Apostolikēparadosis (Hippolytus), 425
Apotelesmatika (Ptolemy), 714
Apoxyomenos (Lysippus), 524
Appian, 814
Appius Claudius, 896
Aqiba ben Joseph. See Akiba ben Joseph
Aqueducts; Greek, 323-324; Roman, 219
Aquila, 30
Aquillius, Manius, 568
Araros, 93
Aratus of Sicyon, 228
Arbitration, The. See Epitrepontes
Arbogast, 824, 870
Arcadius, 824
Arcesilaus, 314
Archimedes, 80-84, 606. See also Epipledon isorropion; Kykloy metresis;
Peri helikon; Peri konoeideon kai sphaireodeon; Peri ochoymenon;
Peri sphairas kai kylindron; Peri tōn mechanikon theorematon; Psiammites;
Tetragonismos ten tou orthogonion konoy tomes
Architecture. See Category Index
Ardashīr I, 485, 774
Ardashīr II, 870
Areopagus, 214, 621
Ares, 333
Aretaeus of Cappadocia, 84-87
Arginusae, Battle of (406 b.c.e.), 128
Argos, 227
Arhats, 111
Arianism, 43, 62, 134, 241, 330, 361, 363, 698, 796, 869, 911; Vandals and, 353
Ariobarzanes I, 831, 895
Aristarchus of Samos, 418, 713
Aristides, 214, 616, 860
Aristippus, 87-89
Aristobulus, 403-404, 641
Aristocles of Messana, 723
Aristodemus, 827
Ariston (son of Sophocles), 811
Ariston of Chios, 314
Aristophanes, 90-93. See also Batrachoi; Eirēnē; Hippēs; Nephelai;
Ornithes; Sphēkes
Aristophon, 678
Aristotle, 39, 94-97, 263, 277, 609, 659, 856, 872. See also Athenaiōn politeia;
De anima; De caelo; De philosophia; De poetica; Ethica Eudemia;
Technē rhetorikēs
Aristoxenus, 97-99
Arithmētika (Diophantus), 286, 435
Ark of the Covenant, 256, 747, 805
Arkhidamos (Diocles), 278
Armageddon, 887
Armenia; Christianization of, 776; Rome and, 870, 895, 906; Sāsānians and, 774, 777
Armies; Macedonian, 39; Roman, 359, 533, 832
Arminius, 99-101
Arrhidaeus, 597
Arria Major. See Arria the Elder
Arria the Elder, 102-103
Arria the Younger, 103-105
Arrian, 524
Arruns, 841, 846
Ars amatoria (Ovid), 603
Ars poetica (Horace), 432
Arshak II, 776
Arsinoe I (daughter of Lysimachus), 107, 716
Arsinoe II Philadelphus, 105-108, 247, 716
Arsinoe III (sister of Ptolemy IV), 316
Arsinoe (Eratosthenes), 316
Arsinoe Aphrodite, 158
Arsinoeum (building), 107
Art and art patronage. See Category Index
Art of Love. See Ars amatoria
Art of Riding, The. See Peri hippikēs
Artabanus, 972
Artabazanes, 253, 971
Artabazus, 615
Artaxerxes I, 339
Artaxerxes II, 304, 339, 744
Artemidorus, 185
Artemis, 397
Artemis at Brauron (Praxiteles), 694
Artemisia I, 109-111, 545, 761
Artemisium, 761
Artemisium, Battle of (480 b.c.e.), 507
Arthaśāstra (Kautilya), 204
Arverni, 935
Arya Asanga. See Asanga
Āryadeva, 112
Aryasanga. See Asanga
Asanga, 111-114, 930
Asceticism; Christian, 60, 456, 474, 698, 789; Diogenes and, 283; Jain, 355, 925; Mohist, 577
Asclepiades of Bithynia, 114-117, 199
Asclepiads, 420
Asclepieions, 348, 421
Asclepius, 348, 440, 810
Asdings, 351
Ashtoreth, 805
Ashur-bani-apli. See Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal, 117-120, 123, 378, 710
Ashurnasirpal II, 120-123
Ashur-nirari V, 892
Ashvaghosha. See Aśvaghosa
Asia. See Geographical Index under Asia Minor; Central Asia; China; India and
Sri Lanka; Japan
Asivisopama Sutta, 899
Aśoka, 124-127, 131, 204, 898, 934
Aspasia of Miletus, 127-129
Aspis (Menander), 548
Assassinations; Agrippina the Younger, 591, 686, 767; Antipater, 403; Julius Caesar, 174, 185;
Caligula, 178, 218; Caracalla, 482; Ephialtes, 621; Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, 359; Tiberius
Sempronius Gracchus, 358; Hasdrubal, 382; Hipparchus, 651; Huai Wang, 732; Julia Soaemias, 484;
Philip II, 266, 597, 639; Philip II of Macedonia, 719; Pompey the Great, 683, 927; Sargon II, 754;
Seleucus I Nicator, 716; Sennacherib, 770; Servius, 846; Tarquin the First, 846; Valentinian III, 353; Xerxes I, 973
Assumption of Mary, 540
Assurbanipal. See Ashurbanipal
Assyria; Egypt and, 710, 753; government, 250; Jews and, 447, 453; Urartu and, 892. See also
Geographical Index under
Assyria; Mesopotamia
Assyrian Empire; map, lxxi
Astarte, 271
Astrolabes, 418, 435
Astrology, 424
Astronomy, 424; Alexandrian, 434; Babylonian, 579; Greek, 857; Hellenic, 713; Hellenistic, 579;
mapping, 417; mathematics and, 78; Pythagoras and, 727. See also Category Index
Astyages, 248
Asurbanipal. See Ashurbanipal
Aśvaghosa, 130-132, 501
Asvagosa. See Aśvaghosa
Athanaric, 868, 911
Athanasius of Alexandria, Saint, 60, 62, 132-135, 331, 333. See also
Apologia ad Constantinum; Contra Arianos; De incarnatione Verbi Dei;
Epistolae festales; Historia Arianorum; Vita S. Antonii
Athena Lemnia (Phidias), 634
Athena Promachos (Phidias), 634
Athenaeus (of Naucratis), 610
Athenaeus of Attaleia, 84
Athenaiōn politeia (Aristotle), 807
Athenian Constitution, The. See Athenaiōn politeia
Athenian Empire, 215
Athenodorus, 194, 827
Athens; Macedonia and, 638; Sparta and, 215, 226, 621, 631, 859, 882, 969; Thebes and, 304
Athletics; Greek, 632; Roman, 591
Atomism, 115, 261, 356, 520, 610
Aton, 28, 588, 902, 908
Atossa, 136-138, 251, 971
Attalus I, 65
Attalus III, 359
Attar'athae, 791
Attic Nights. See Noctes Atticae
Atticus, Titus Pomponius, 211
Attila, 138-142
Augusta. See Julia Domna
Augustine, Saint, 44, 142-144, 332, 353, 853, 947. See also De civitate Dei;
De correptione et gratia; De doctrina Christiana; De Trinitate
Augustus (first Roman emperor), 20, 23, 71, 73, 145-148, 167, 176, 217, 230, 280, 404, 431,
489, 509, 511, 527, 602, 704, 842, 888, 938, 941
Augustus, Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar. See Tiberius
Aurelian, 281, 988
Aurelius Augustinus. See Augustine, Saint
Automata. See Peri automatopoietikes
Auxentius, 912
Avesta (Zoroaster), 993
Avianus, Flavius, 629
Avidius Cassius, Gaius, 531
Ay, 28, 587, 908
Aylesford, Battle of (c. 450 c.e.), 395
Azriyau, 893

B
Baal, 373, 487
Babrius, 629
Babylon; Assyria and, 118, 120; as Christian metaphor, 143; Cyrus the Great and, 249;
Jews and, 453; Sammu-ramat and, 745
Babylonia; culture, 4; government, 250; map, lxxi
Babylōniaka (Berosus), 746
Babylonian captivity, 446
Babylonian Exile, 336, 338, 468, 582
Bacchus, 512
Bacchylides, 793
Bactria, 66
Bad-Tempered Man, The. See Dyskolos
Bahram IV, 777
Bakchai (Euripides), 328
Ban Biao, 149, 953
Ban Chao, 149, 152
Ban Gu, 149-152, 953
Ban Jieyu, 152
Ban Mengjian. See Ban Gu
Ban Zhao, 149, 152-154. See also Nu jie; Nü xiao jing
Banking, 252
Baoyun, 345
Baptism; Christian, 476
Bar Kokhba, 31
Bar Kokhba, Simeon. See Kokhba, Simeon bar
Barak, 259
Barcas. See Hamilcar Barca; Hannibal; Hasdrubal
Bardiya. See Smerdis
Barnabas, 223
Basil the Great, 361, 363
Basileus. See Porphyry
Bassus, Aufidius, 665
Bath of Pallas, The. See Eis Loutra tēs Pallados
Bathsheba, 155-157, 256, 803
Bathshua. See Bathsheba
Batiates, Lentulus, 818
Batrachoi (Aristophanes), 9, 811
Battles. See names of individual battles
Beards; Egyptian, 440; kingship and, 366, 389
Begas, 333
Belisarius, 354
Bellum Catilinae (Sallust), 742
Bellum Iugurthinum (Sallust), 743
Bellum Judaium (Josephus), 405, 468, 477
Belopoeïca (Hero of Alexandria), 401
Beowulf, 394
Berenice II, 157-159, 180
Berosus, 746
Bessus, 719
Bethsabee. See Bathsheba
Bhagavati Sūtra (Sudharma Svami), 355
Bhanduka Upaska, 898
Bhikśunī Prātimokśa, 346
Bhūmis, 113
Bible; Abraham in, 4; Bathsheba in, 155; David in, 255; Egypt in, 737; Ezekiel in, 335; Gothic, 911;
history, 330; Jesus Christ in, 458; John the Baptist in, 474; Judges, 258; Moses in, 572;
Nubuchadnezzar in, 582; Origen's commentaries, 599; Peter in, 624; Samuel in, 749; Sennacherib in, 770;
Temple of Jerusalem, 804; Theodore of Mopsuestia on, 863; Tiglath-pileser in, 892; translations of, 457
"Bienzong Lun" (Xie Lingyun), 976
Bingshu Jieyao (Cao Cao), 183
Biographies; Chinese, 783; Greek tradition of, 18; history and, 150, 671
Biographies of Illustrious Women. See Lienü zhuan
Bioi paralleloi (Plutarch), 64, 127, 616, 671, 794, 807, 811, 818
Biological sciences, Greek, 38, 94, 297
Bion of Borysthenes, 314
Bion Prasis (Lucian), 514
Birds, The. See Ornithes
Birth of the War-God, The. See Kumārasambhava
Blossius, 357
Bocchus, 533, 831
Bodaidaruma. See Bodhidharma
Bodhi tree, 899
Bodhidharma, 160-162
Bodhisattvas, 112, 931
Body versus soul, 688
Boeotia; Hesiod and, 413; Sparta and, 14, 16; wars, 303
Boeotian League, 304, 621
Bonifacius, 352
Book of the Popes, The. See Liber Pontificalis
Botany, Greek, 872
Boudicca, 163-165
Boule (Athenian council), 222
Braggart Warrior, The. See Miles gloriosus
Brahmans, 130, 925
Britain; Agricola and, 17; Celts and, 936; post-Roman, 394; Pytheas and, 730. See also Geographical Index
Britannicus, 561, 591
Brothers, The. See Adelphoe
Brutus, Lucius Junius, 166, 518, 846
Brutus, Marcus Junius, 74, 146, 166-168, 174, 185, 431
Bucolics. See Eclogues
Buddha, 49, 131, 160, 169-171, 345
Buddhabhadra, 346
Buddhacarita (Aśvaghosa), 130
Buddhism, 355, 930, 933; Buddha as god, 160; China, 345, 975; Christianity and, 130; Daoism and, 502, 504;
Empedocles and, 296; Hīnayāna, 931, 934; Hinduism and, 171; India, 131, 345; Kushūns and, 500;
Mādhyamaka, 112; Mahāyāna, 111, 130; Menander and, 550; patriarchs, 160; philosophy of, 111;
Sarvāstivāda, 500, 930; scriptures, 169; Skepticism and, 723; Theravāda, 898, 931, 934; Vaibhāśika, 930;
Vijñānavāda, 931; Yogācāra, 111, 930; Zen, 130, 160, 504, 932
Buddhist Council, First (383 b.c.e.), 50
Buddhist Council, Fourth (first century c.e.), 500
Bureaucracy; Chinese, 958; Roman, 219
Burgundians, 351
Burrus, Sextus Afranius, 591, 767
Buthos, 918
Byzantine Empire, 282
Byzantium, 242. See also Constantinople

C
Caecilius Statius, 850
Caenis, 943
Caepia Brutus, Quintus. See Brutus, Marcus Junius
Caesar, Julius, 20, 73, 145, 166, 172-175, 185, 189, 198, 212, 230, 403, 682, 742, 815, 927.
See also Comentarii de bello civili; Comentarii de bello Gallico
Caesarea, 405
Caesarea, Council of (314 c.e.), 797
Caesarion, 230
Caesarism, 175
Calendars; agricultural, 416, 816; astronomical, 579; Chinese, 783; Roman, 815
Calgacus, 19
Caligula, 17, 23, 72, 176-179, 217, 510, 591, 640, 766, 890
Calixtus. See Callistus
Calligraphy, Chinese, 956, 975
Callimachus, 158, 179-181, 196, 314. See also Aitiōn; Eis Loutra tēs Pallados; Ekalē; In Delum
Callisthenes, 872
Callistratus, 264
Callistus, 425
Cambyses I, 248
Cambyses II, 136, 251
Camillus, Marcus Furius, 512, 833
Canaan; Abraham and, 4; Jewish settlement, 258
Candra Gupta. See Chandragupta Maurya
Cannae, Battle of (216 b.c.e.), 190, 343, 383, 758
Canon (Polyclitus), 676
Canon law, 796
Cao Cao, 182-184
Cappadocian Fathers, 365
Caracalla, 482, 484
Caraka, 501
Caratacus, 163
Caravans, trade and, 334
Carchemish, Battle of (605 b.c.e.), 582
Carmen de vita sua (Gregory of Nazianzus), 361
Carmen Saeculare (Horace), 432
Carousal, The. See Symposion (Lucian)
Carter, Howard, 909
Carthage; destruction of, 756; Numidia and, 542; Rome and, 191, 342, 373, 382, 542, 738, 813;
trade and, 385; Vandals and, 353. See also Geographical Index
Carthaginian Peace, 384
Cartimandua, 163
Carus, 280
Cassander, 63, 598, 720
Cassian, John, 947
Cassiodorus, 139, 391
Cassius, 146, 166, 174, 185-187, 568
Cassius Dio. See Dio Cassius
Cassius Longinus. See Longinus, Cassius
Cassius Longinus, Gaius. See Cassius
Caste system, Indian, 171, 204, 500
Catalaunian Plains, Battle of the (451 c.e.), 140
Categoriae (Aristotle), 688
Catholicism, 869
Catiline, 188-190, 212, 233, 494, 742
Cato maior de senectute (Cicero), 210
Cato the Censor, 190-194, 301, 759
Cato the Elder. See Cato the Censor
Cato the Younger, 194-196, 683, 743
Cato Uticensis. See Cato the Younger
Catullus, 196-199, 233, 706, 835
Catulus, Quintus Lutatius, 534
Catus Decianus, 164
Cavalry; Assyrian, 121; Greek, 306; Macedonian, 638; Roman, 759
Celestine I, 948
Celibacy; Christianity and, 600, 613; monasticism and, 862
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius, 199-202, 330
Celts, 99, 173, 756, 838, 935
Cenabum, Battle of (52 b.c.e.), 936
Central Asia. See Geographical Index
Cercylas, 750
Cerdic, 396
Chaeronea, Battle of (338 b.c.e.), 39, 266, 452, 523, 597, 639
Chalcedon, Council of (451 c.e.), 864, 866
Chalcidian League, 638
Chaldea. See Babylonia
Chan (Zen) Buddhism. See Buddhism
Chandragupta II, 496
Chandragupta Maurya, 124, 202-204
Chandramas Nanda. See Dhanananda
Charactēres ethikōi (Theophrastus), 547, 874
Charmides, 801
Cheiroballistra (Hero of Alexandria), 401
Cheops. See Khufu
Children of Herakles, The. See Hērakleidai
China; map, lxxv. See also Geographical Index
Chinese Book of Etiquette and Conduct for Women and Girls, The. See Nu jie (Ban Zhao)
Chionites, 776
Choēphoroi (Aeschylus), 9
Chorus, Greek, 876
Chos-byung (Bu-ston), 111
Chremonidean War (266-261 b.c.e.), 108, 716
Christ. See Jesus
Christianity; Abraham in, 6; appeal of, 42; Buddhism and, 130; Catholicism, 353; church formation, 625;
church organization, 225; classical scholarship and, 435; Constantine's conversion, 132; David in, 257;
Diocletian and, 280; Epicurianism and, 309; Ethiopia and, 333; Ezekiel and, 337; Gnosticism and, 444;
Hadrian and, 372; John and, 472; Judaism and, 330, 437, 472, 612, 822; martyrdom and, 205;
Moses and, 574; Neoplatonism and, 688; paganism and, 268, 791, 798, 853, 869; persecution of, 437, 531,
592, 600, 776; Philo of Alexandria and, 642; Rome and, 240, 330, 905
Christmas, date of, 458
Christology, 863, 866; Valentinian, 920
Christopher, Saint, 205-207
Chronicon (Eusebius), 330
Chronographiai (Eratosthenes), 315
Chrysippus of Cnidus, 310, 320, 982
Chrysostom, Saint John, 208-209, 862
Chu Yuan, 844
Chūai, 465
Chuang Chou. See Zhuangzi
Chuang-tzu. See Zhuangzi
Chunqiu (Confucius), 149
Church, Christian. See Christianity
Church History. See Historia ecclesiastica
Church of the Assumption, 392
Church of the Nativity, 392
Cicero, 145, 185, 188, 194, 210-213, 233, 267, 494, 512, 520, 692, 742, 834, 838.
See also Cato maior de senectute; Laelius de amicitia; Pro Caelio; Pro Quinctio; Pro Roscio Amerino
Cilnius, Gaius Maecenas. See Maecenas, Gaius
Cimbri, 533, 831
Cimmerians, 244; Assyria and, 118
Cimon, 128, 213-217, 564, 616, 620, 678, 860
Cimon Koalemos, 563
Cinadon, 15
Cinna, Lucius Cornelius, 535, 832
Circumcision, 5
Circumference of Earth, 315
Circus Maximus, 847
Citizenship; Athenian, 221; Roman, 210, 212, 359; Spartan, 228
Cittamātra, 112
City of God, The. See De civitate Dei
Civil service, Chinese, 960
Civil Wars, The. See Comentarii de bello civili
Civil Wars, Roman (49-69 c.e.), 18, 195, 508, 535
Classic of Filial Piety for Women. See Nü xiao jing
Claudian, 824
Claudius I, 23, 72, 102, 178, 217-220, 511, 561, 591
Claudius, Appius, 359
Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, Tiberius. See Claudius I
Claudius Ptolemaeus. See Ptolemy (astronomer)
Cleanthes of Assos, 690
Cleis, 750
Cleisthenes of Athens, 8, 214, 221-223, 226, 564
Clement I, 223-226, 270
Clement of Alexandria, 423
Cleombrotus, 304
Cleomenes I, 221, 226-229, 505
Cleomenes II, 226-229
Cleomenes III, 226-229
Cleon, 90
Cleonice, 616
Cleopatra VII (queen of Egypt), 21, 71, 75, 108, 146, 174, 229-232, 404, 705, 814, 987
Cleopatra (sister of Alexander the Great), 597
Cleopatra Philopater. See Cleopatra VII
Cloaca Maxima, 847
Clocks; medicine and, 411; water, 247
Clodia, 197, 233-235, 706
Clodius Pulcher, Publius, 212, 233, 682
Cloud Messenger, The. See Meghadūta
Cloudcuckooland, 92
Clouds, The. See Nephelai
Codex Argenteus (Ulfilas), 912
Coele-Syria, 66
Coelestius, 948
Collection, The. See Synagogē
Colonization; Assyrian, 753; Carthaginian, 385; Phoenician, 273; Roman, 359
Comedy;
Greek, 90, 548, 876; Plautus and, 663; Roman, 850
Comedy of manners, 851
Comentarii de bello cinli (Caesar), 828
Comentarii de bello civili (Caesar), 172
Comentarii de bello Gallico (Caesar), 172, 828, 935
Commodus, 350, 372, 425, 531
Commonitoria (Vincent of Lérins), 948
Compassion, Buddhist concept of, 112, 169
Compendium of Roman History. See Annales (Vellius)
Compositiones (Scribonius), 291
Concordia, Shrine of, 510
Confessiones (Augustine), 142
Confucianism, 554, 576, 779, 978; Ban Gu and, 149; Chinese government and, 960; Daoism and, 502;
government and, 732; Legalism and, 380; persecution of, 780; poetry and, 184, 845; superstition and, 953
Confucius, 236-239, 502, 552, 783, 954
Conic sections, 76
Cōnica (Apollonius of Perga), 77, 607
Conon of Samos, 76, 80
Consciousness; Buddhism and, 932
Conspiracies; by Arsinoe I, 107; against Attila, 140; against Julius Caesar, 74, 146, 166,
174, 185; against Caligula, 178; by Catiline, 189, 194, 212, 742; by Cinadon of Sparta, 15;
against Claudius, 102; against Nero, 593; against Tiberius, 72
Conspiracy of Catiline, The. See Bellum Catilinae
Constantine the Great, 132, 239-243, 330, 391, 775, 825
Constantinople, 242, 361, 751, 797, 825, 868, 911. See also Byzantium
Constantinople, Council of (381 c.e.), 364, 796, 869
Constantinople, Council of (553 c.e., 862
Constantinople, Hunnic invasion of, 139
Constantius I (Chlorus), 239, 281, 391
Constantius II, 134, 242, 775
Constitutions; Athenian, 214, 221, 293, 564, 807; Roman, 832, 848; Sparta, 228
Contra Apionem (Josephus), 479
Contra Arianos (Athanasius), 134
Contra Celsum (Origen), 601
Contra Eunomium (Gregory of Nyssa), 364
Conversion of Saint Paul, 613
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 78, 419
Corinna of Tanagra, 646
Corinth, League of, 639
Corinthian War (395-386 b.c.e.), 15, 304
Corinthians, 224
Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 672
Corpus Hippocraticum (Hippocrates), 420
Corpus Tibullianum, 835
Cosmic cycles, 295
Cosmic order, 407
Cosmogony; Greek, 414
Cosmology; Chinese, 951; Greek, 52, 295; Heraclitus and, 399
Cossinius, 819
Councils. See Caesarea; Chalcedon; Constantinople; Ephesus; Four Hundred; Nicaea
Court poetry, 844
Covenant, Jewish, 573
Crassus, Marcus Licinius, 173, 189, 194, 212, 681, 820
Crassus, Publius, 359
Crates of Thebes, 70, 285, 981
Cratinus, 127
Crayford, Battle of (c. 456 c.e.), 395
Crime and religion, 293
Crispus, Gaius Sallustius. See Sallust
Critias of Athens, 801
Crixus, 819
Crocus Plain, Battle of the (352 b.c.e.), 638
Croesus, 11, 244-246, 249, 408, 654
Croisos. See Croesus
Cross, True, 392
Ctesias of Cnidus, 744
Ctesibius of Alexandria, 247-248, 401
Ctesiphon, 266
Culahatthipadopama Sutta, 899
Cunaxa, Battle of (401 b.c.e.), 968
Cupid, 696
Cursus honorum, 166, 210, 832, 837
Cyaxares, 583
Cybele, 535
Cylon, 293
Cynewulf, 392
Cynicism, 69, 88, 284, 314, 801, 981
Cynthia, 704
Cyrenaics, 801
Cyril of Alexandria, 435, 866
Cyropaedia. See Kyrou paideia
Cyrus II. See Cyrus the Great
Cyrus the Great, 136, 244, 248-251, 337-338, 408, 583, 969

D
Da ren fu (Sima Xinagru), 787
Daimons, 801
Daixuan Jing, 951
Damasus I, 457
Damo. See Bodhidharma
Damon, 620
Danaids (Aeschylus), 9
Dao De Jing (Laozi), 502, 950, 989
Dao Zheng, 345
Daoism, 502, 780, 977, 989; poetry and, 845; women and, 153
Dardanus, Treaty of (85 b.c.e.), 568
Darius III, 40
Darius the Great, 36, 52, 109, 136, 226, 251-254, 408, 564, 971
Daruma. See Bodhidharma
Data. See Dedomena, Ta
David, 155, 255-258, 749, 803; house of, 447
De Abrahamo (Philo), 641
De abstinentia. See Peri apochēs empsychōn
De agricultura (Cato), 192
De anima (Aristotle), 94
De anima (Tertullian), 854
De architectura (Vitruvius), 247
De artibus (Celsus), 199
De caelo (Aristotle), 321
De causis plantarum. See Peri phytikōn aitiōn
De civitate Dei (Augustine), 142, 518
De correptione et gratia (Augustine), 947
De Decalogo (Philo), 641
De doctrina Christiana (Augustine), 208
De fide (Ambrose), 43
De grammaticis et rhetoribus (Suetonius), 941
De historia plantarum. See Peri phytikōn historiōn
De incarnatione Verbi Dei (Athanasius), 134
De ira libri tres (Seneca), 767
De Josepho (Philo), 641
De lingua Latina (Varro), 929
De materia medica (Dioscorides), 289
De medicina (Celsus), 114, 199
De natura (Epicurus), 308
De natura deorum (Cicero), 794
De opificis mundi (Philo), 641
De oratore (Cicero), 793
De origine et situ Germanorum (Tacitus), 19, 99, 838
De philosophia (Aristotle), 94
De poetica (Aristotle), 9, 812, 877
De praemiis et poenis (Philo), 641
De principiis. See Peri archōn
De providentia (Seneca), 767
De re militari (Cato), 192
De re rustica (Varro), 929
De republica (Cicero), 757
De rerum natura (Lucretius), 302, 309, 520
De sacerdotio (John Chrysostom), 208
De Trinitate (Augustine), 142
De usu partium corporis humani. See Peri chreias morion
De verborum significatu (Verrius), 942
De viris illustribus (Jerome), 853
De viris illustribus (Suetonius), 940
De vita Caesarum (Suetonius), 18, 23, 508, 685
De vita Julii Agricolae (Tacitus), 17, 163, 838
De vita Moysis (Philo), 641
Dead Sea Scrolls, 476
Death of Sardanapalus (Delacroix), 119
Death sentences, 294
Deborah, 258-260
Decebalus, 906
Decius, 269, 282
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. See History of the Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire

Decretals, 796
Dedomena, Ta (Euclid), 78, 318
Deductive logic, 261
Defense of Saint Augustine, The. See Pro Augustino responsiones ad
capitula objectionum Vincentianarum

Deification of rulers; Egyptian, 588, 773; Japanese, 596; Mesopotamian, 366; Ptolemaic, 716;
Roman, 178, 185, 268, 281, 521, 686, 945
Delian League, 52, 214, 620-621, 633, 678, 810, 860
Delian problem, 321
Delos, Oracle at, 283, 321, 651
Delphi; omphalos at, 55; Oracle at, 11, 39, 221, 227, 244, 246, 265, 283, 293, 429, 505,
617, 639, 670, 695, 799, 807, 968; sanctuary at, 679
Demaratus, 227, 505, 846
Demes, 221
Demeter, 7
Demetrius of Phalerum, 317, 547, 628, 872
Demetrius Poliorcetes, 63, 106, 157
Demiurge, 919
Democracy, 214, 221, 801
Democritus, 59, 115, 261-264, 307, 858
Demonax, 514
Demonstratio evangelica (Eusebius), 330
Demophilus, 869
Demosthenes, 264-268, 275. See also Kata Philippou; "Peri tōn en Cherronesoi";
"Peri tou Stephanou"
Denis, Saint, 268-271
Dennis. See Denis, Saint
Denys. See Denis, Saint
Derketo, 744
Description of Greece. See Periegesis Hellados
Devadatta, 49
Devil, 60, 205, 993
Dhanananda, 202
Dharma, 124, 169, 497, 931
Diadochi, 64, 598
Diadumenos (Polyclitus), 676
Diaitētikon (Herophilus), 412
Dialogue Concerning Oratory, A. See Dialogus de oratoribus
Dialogues; Aristotelian, 94; Confucian, 236; Platonic, 514, 660; Sima Xiangru, 785;
Socratic, 799. See also Eranistes seu Polymorphus
Dialogues of the Courtesans. See Hetairikoi dialogoi
Dialogues of the Dead. See Nekrikoi dialogoi
Dialogues of the Gods. See Theōn dialogoi
Dialogus de oratoribus (Tacitus), 838
Dialogus de vita S. Joannis Chrysostomi (Palladius), 208
Didacticism, history and, 783
Dido, 271-274, 382, 987
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), 273
Dido, Queen of Carthage (Marlowe and Nashe), 273
Didymus. See Thomas, Saint
Diet; Greek, 278; theories of, 277
Dikran. See Tigranes the Great
Dio Cassius, 274-277, 484, 486
Dio Chrysostom, 274
Diocles of Carystus, 277-279. See also Dioklēs epistolē prophulaktikē; Hugieina pros
Pleistarkhon
; Pathos aitia therapeia; Peri epideomōn; Peri gunaikeiōn;
Peri pepeseōs; Peri puretōn; Peri puros kai aeros; Peri thanasimōn
pharmakōn
; Peri therapeifn; Peri tfn kat iētreion; Rhizotomika, Peri lakhanōn
Diocletian, 43, 239, 280-282, 391, 775
Diodore of Tarsus, 208, 863
Diodorus Cronus, 981
Diodorus Siculus, 556
Diogenes Laertius, 399, 608, 963, 965
Diogenes of Sinope, 69, 283-285
Dioklēs epistolēprophulaktikē (Diocles), 278
Dion Cassius. See Dio Cassius
Dionis. See Denis, Saint
Dionysia (festival), 8, 90, 621, 876
Dionysius. See Denis, Saint
Dionysius I, 87
Dionysius of Paris. See Denis, Saint
Dionysius the Aeropagite, Saint, 270
Dionysus, 92, 512, 695, 793, 876
Diophanes of Mitylene, 357
Diophantus, 286-289, 435
Diopter, invention of, 418
Dioptra (Hero of Alexandria), 401
Dioscorides, Pedanius, 289-292
Directions on Health for Plistarchus. See Hugieina pros Pleistarkhon
"Dirge for Hui Yuan" (Xie Lingyun), 976
Disabilities, attitudes toward; Egypt, 27; Rome, 217; Sparta, 14
Diseases; causes of, 421; classification of, 85; diagnosis of, 116, 200; gods and, 441; treatment of, 86
Dissection, human, 410
Dithyrambs, 877
Divina commedia, La (Dante), 168, 437
Divine Comedy, The. See Divina commedia, La
Djoser. See Zoser
Dogmatism, 84, 279
Domitian, 104, 224, 370, 437, 493, 537, 838, 943
Donation of Constantine, The (Raphael), 392
Donatism, 241, 353
Donatus, Aelius, 456
Dong Zhongshu, 381, 960
Doryphorus (Polyclitus), 523, 676
Dou Xian, 151
Doxa (Parmenides), 609
Draco, 293-294
Dracon. See Draco
Dreams; Herophilus on, 412; Jerome on, 456
Dresden Maenad, The (Scopas), 762
Drugs; Celsus on, 200; classification of, 291; Diocles on, 278; Dioscorides on, 290;
Ebers Papyrus, 441; Galen on, 350
Druidism, 219
Druids, 164, 935
Drusus, Marcus Livius, 194, 508
Drusus, Nero Claudius, 217
Drusus Nero Germanicus, Tiberius Claudius. See Claudius I
Du Mingshi, 975
Dualism; Buddhist, 931; Platonic, 263
Dunciad, The (Pope), 180
Dynasty of Raghu, The. See Raghuvamśa
Dyskolos (Menander), 548

E
East Asia. See Geographical Index under China; Japan
Eastern Grove Monastery, 975
Ebers Papyrus, 441
Ebissa, 395
Ecclesiastical History of the English People. See Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
Eclecticism, 84
Eclipses, 857; prediction of, 418; solar, 53
Eclogues (Vergil), 431, 528, 938
Ecology, Greek, 874
Ecumenical Council, Second (381 c.e.), 362, 913
Ecumenical doctors, 209
Education; Chinese, 238, 552; Greek, 450, 670, 751, 981; Roman, 929, 941;
Sophism and, 707; women's, 434
Egypt; Assyria and, 118, 710, 753; Cyrene and, 157; Hittites and, 736; Israel and, 803;
Jews and, 572; Kadesh and, 886; Nubia and, 570, 655, 772; Palmyra and, 987; Rome and, 230;
trade with Africa, 334; unification of, 556, 570. See also Geographical Index
Egyptian dynasties, Eighteenth; map, lxiv
Egyptian Coptic church, 333
Egyptians (Aeschylus), 9
Eighteenth Dynasty (Egypt), 388, 585, 588, 885; map, lxiv
Eightfold Path, 131, 170
Eirēnē (Aristophanes), 92
Eis Loutra tēs Pallados (Callimachus), 180
Ekalē (Callimachus), 180
Ekklesiazousai (Aristophanes), 92
Elagabal, 480, 483, 487
Elagabalus, 483, 487
Elam, 119
Eleatics, 261
Elegies, Roman, 835
Ēlektra (Euripides), 327, 811
Elements (fire, air, water, earth), 278, 349, 397, 984. See also Stoicheia
Elements of Theology, The. See Stoikheiōsis theologikē
Elenchou kai anatropes. See Adversus haereses
Elephants; Hannibal and, 382; use in warfare, 41, 121, 746
Eleusinian Mysteries. See Mystery religions
Eleutherius, 269, 443
Eli, 747
Elijah, 474
Elizabeth, 539
Ella Amida, 333
Ellēnika (Xenophon), 969
Elpinice, 564, 678
Emanations, divine, 641
Embryology, 278
Emotions, Stoic concept of, 692
Empedocles, 59, 277, 295-298, 610. See also Katharmoi; Peri physeōs
Empiricism, 84, 199, 412, 724
Emptiness (Buddhist doctrine), 112, 160
Encomium (poetic form), 793
Encyclopedias, 929
Enheduanna, 298-300
Enlightenment (religious), 284, 925
Enneads (Plotinus), 669
Ennius, Quintus, 301-303, 520. See also Hectoris lytra; Saturae
Epaminondas, 303-307
Ephemerides, 579
Ephesus; Arsinoe II Philadelphus and, 106; Mary and, 540
Ephesus, Council of (431 c.e.), 866
Ephetae, 294
Ephialtes, 215, 621
Ephorus of Cumae, 451
Epics; Babylonian, 378; Greek, 427, 633; history and, 827; Mesopotamian, 914; Sanskrit, 923
Epicureanism, 89, 520, 723, 938
Epicurus, 89, 263, 307-310, 547
Epicycles, 418
Epigram (poetic form), 538, 793
Epigrammata (Callimachus), 180
Epigrammaton liber (Martial), 536
Epimenides, 807
Epinikia (Pindar), 647
Epipledon isorropion (Archimedes), 82
Epistle of Diocles unto King Antigonus. See Dioklēs epistolē prophulaktikē
Epistles (Horace), 432
Epistles of John, 472
Epistolae festales (Athanasius), 134
Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (Seneca), 767
Epitrepontes (Menander), 548
Epodes (Horace), 432
Epyllion (poetic form), 180
Equations, determinate and indeterminate, 286
Equinoxes, precession of the, 418
Er jing ru (Bodhidharma), 161
Eranistes seu Polymorphus (Theodoret), 866
Erasistratus, 310-313, 410
Eratosthenes of Cyrene, 80, 314-317, 419
Erennius, 668
Erga kai Emerai (Hesiod), 413, 939
Eros, 696
Eros (Praxiteles), 696
Esarhaddon, 117, 710, 770
Essay (literary form), 767
Essenes, 459
Ethica Eudemia (Aristotle), 95
Ethics; Greek, 69; Stoicism and, 691; Zoroastrian, 994. See also Aristotle; Hanfeizi; Plato; Plutarch
Ethika (Plutarch), 550, 672
Ethnography; Herodotus and, 408; travel and, 346
Eubulus, 265
Euchidas, 631
Euclid, 77, 317-319, 401, 434
Eudemian Ethics. See Ethica Eudemia
Eudemos, 349
Eudoxia, 208
Eudoxus of Cnidus, 81, 320-323
Eugenius, 824, 870
Eukles, 631
Eumenes, 720, 763
Eumenides (Aeschylus), 9
Eunomians, 361, 364
Eunuchus (Terence), 850
Eupalinos Tunnel, 324
Eupalinus of Megara, 323-325
Euripides, 92, 326-329, 810. See also Hekabē; Hērakleidai; Hiketides;
Iphigeneia ē en Aulidi
; Iphigeneia ē en Taurois; Trōiades
Europe. See
individual countries here and in Geographical Index

Eurydice, 637, 720
Eurymedon River, Battle of (466 b.c.e.), 214, 679
Euryphon, 420
Eusebius Hieronymus. See Jerome, Saint
Eusebius of Caesarea, 330-332, 363, 391, 426. See also Demonstratio evangelica;
Historia ecclesiastica; Praeparatio evangelica; Vita Constantini
Eusebius of Nicodemia, 911
Eusebius Pamphili. See Eusebius of Caesarea
Eustochium, 457
Euthymenes, 387, 729
Euthyphrōn (Plato), 660, 799
Eutyches, 866
Evagoras (Isocrates), 451
Eve, 540
Evodius, Saint, 437
Evolution, 297
Excommunication, 44
Execestides, 807
Execration Texts, 772
Exodus, 1, 573
Ezana, 333-335
Ezechiel. See Ezekiel
Ezekiel, 335-338, 583
Ezra, 338-341

F
Fabius Maximus, Quintus, 342-345, 383
Fabius Maximus Rullianus, Quintus, 342
Fables; Aesop's, 11, 628; Phaedrus, 628
Fables of Phaedrus, The. See Phaedri augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum
Fa-hsien. See Faxian
Fakhri, al- (al-Karaji), 286
Fannia, 103
Faustina, 530
Faxian, 345-347, 976
Faxian Zhuan (Faxian), 345
Felician schism, 699, 797
Fermat, Pierre de, 288
Festal Epistles, The. See Epistolae festales
Feudalism; Central Asian, 500; Chinese, 237, 379; Sāsānian, 774
Feuds and law, 293
Fight at Finnesburg, The, 394
First Clement. See Klementos pros Korinthious epistola prōtē
First Dynasty (Egypt), 556
First Principle, 701, 918
First Triumvirate, 173, 194, 212, 682. See also Second Triumvirate
Five Ages of Man, 415
Flaccus, Aulus Avilius, 640
Flaminius, Gaius, 342, 383
Flavia Domitilla, 943
Flavian, 863
Florens Tertullianus, Quintus Septimius. See Tertullian
For Publius Quintius. See Pro Quinctio
For Sertus Roscius of Ameria. See Pro Roscio Amerino
Forms, Platonic, 95, 660
Fouquet, Jean, 3
Four elements, 278, 349, 397, 984
Four Humors. See Humors, theory of the four
Four Hundred, Council of, 808
Four Noble Truths, 131, 170, 899, 933
Fourth Dynasty (Egypt), 558
"Fragments on the Fall of the Scopads" (Simonides), 793
Free will; Ājīvika, 356; Christianity and, 143
Freedom vs. state authority, 839
Frigidus River, Battle of the (394 c.e.), 824, 871
Fritigern, 911
Frogs, The. See Batrachoi
Frumentius, 333
Fu (poetic form), 149, 785
"Fu of the Homeward Road" (Xie Lingyun), 977
Fulvius, Gnaeus, 383
Fulvius Nobilior, 301
Funerary complexes, Egyptian, 571

G
Gabars, 995
Gaiseric. See Genseric
Galen, 116, 278, 289, 313, 348-351
Galerius, 239, 281
Galgacus. See Calgacus
Galileo, 83
Gallic Wars, The. See Comentarii de bello Gallico
Gallic Wars (58-52 b.c.e.), 173, 935
Gallus, Didius, 163
Gallus, Gaius Aelius, 827
Gandhara School, 500
Gannys, 488
Gathas (Zoroaster), 993
Gaugamela, Battle of (331 b.c.e.), 40
Gaul, 20, 99, 140, 163, 173, 189, 195, 268, 352, 443, 683, 699, 716, 819, 825, 869, 935, 947
Gauls. See Celts
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 83
Gaza, Battle of (312 b.c.e.), 63
Gedaliah, 454
Gellius, Aulus, 939
Gender roles; in Athens, 962
Genealogy; epics and, 497
Genseric, 139, 351-354
Gentiles, conversions of, 626
Geocentrism, 78, 418, 693, 712, 829
Geōgraphica (Strabo), 417, 550, 579, 827
Geographika (Eratosthenes), 315
Geōgraphikē hyphēgēsis (Ptolemy), 713
Geography; Alexandrian, 417; Hellenic, 713; Strabo and, 828. See also Category Index
Geometry; Euclid and, 317; Greek, 76, 81, 606; music and, 98; projective, 79;
Pythagoras and, 725; Thales and, 858
Georgics (Vergil), 528, 929, 938
Germania. See De origine et situ Germanorum
Germanicus Caesar, 23, 72, 100, 176, 217, 510
Germans, 838; Britons and, 394; Rome and, 147, 351; Tacitus's description, 99
Gerousia, the, 228
Ghosts, 616
Gilgamesh, 378, 914
Girl from Samos, The. See Samia
Girl Who Was Shorn, The. See Perikeiromenē
Glaber, Clodius, 819
Gladiators, 818
Glaucus Potnieus (Aeschylus), 8
Gnosticism, 443, 600, 854, 918
God. See Yahweh
Goddess, Mary as, 540
Gods; depictions in art, 635; Greek, 429, 966; human relationships to, 732;
philosophy and, 856; rulers and, 556
Gold mining in Egypt, 47
Golden Ass, The. See Metamorphoses (Apuleius)
Golden Legend. See Legenda aurea
Goliath, 255
Gomorrah, 4
Gong. See Faxian
Gongylus, 616
Gorgias (Plato), 452, 660
Gorgo (daughter of Cleomenes I), 505
Gorillas, 386
Gośāla Maskarīputra, 355-357
Gospel of John, 472
Goths, 825, 868, 911
Government; Athenian, 221; Chinese, 554; Confucian, 236; Daoism and, 504, 990; law and, 294;
Legalism and, 380, 780; philosophy and, 659; Roman Empire, 219, 280. See also Category Index
Gracchi. See Gracchus, Gaius Sempronius; Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius
Gracchus, Gaius Sempronius, 357-360, 758
Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius, 357-360, 757-758
Gratian, 43, 364, 699, 868
Gratus, Valerius, 644
Great Geometer, the. See Apollonius of Perga
Great Man, The. See Da ren fu
Great Migration (fourth century), 138
Great Persecution (Diocletian; 303 c.e.), 282
Great Renunciation (Jainism), 925
Great Wall of China, 780, 960
Greece; areas of influence, map, lxvii; India and, 551; map, lxvi;
Persia and, 137, 213, 252, 265, 408, 523, 564, 615, 630, 859, 969, 972. See also Geographical Index
Greek League, 39
Gregory Nazianzen. See Gregory of Nazianzus
Gregory of Nazianzus, 361-363, 869. See also Carmen de vita sua; In laudem
Basilii Magni
; Oratio apologetica de fuga sua; Orationae
Gregory of Nyssa, 363-365
Gregory of Tours, Saint, 270
Grouch, The. See Dyskolos
Guan Zhong, 380
Guandu, Battle of (199 c.e.), 183
Guanzi (Guan Zhong), 380
Gudea, 366-369
Guerrilla warfare, 384
Guo Xiang, 991
Gupta Dynasty, 496
Gyges of Lydia, 118, 244, 710

H
Hadrian, 31, 370-373, 493, 906
Hadrian's Temple, 371
Hadrian's Wall, 371
Hagar, 5
Hageladas. See Ageladas
Hagiography, 205, 270; Ignatius, 438
Halicarnassus, 545
Hamilcar Barca, 373-375, 382, 739
Hammurabi, 376-379, 915
Hammurabi, Code of, 253, 582
Han Dynasty, 149, 182; map, lxxv
Han Shu (Ban Gu), 149, 152, 785
Han state, 379
Hananiah, 454
Han-fei-tzu. See Hanfeizi
Hanfeizi, 379-381, 979
Hanfeizi (Hanfeizi), 379
Hannibal, 67, 190, 273, 342, 375, 382-385, 512, 542, 758, 812
Hanno, 374, 385-388, 739, 759
Hanumān, 923
Harmonika (Ptolemy), 714
Harmonika stoicheia (Aristoxenus), 97
Harmonists, 98
Harmony, 399
Hasdrubal, 273, 382, 544, 740, 758, 812
Hatchepsut. See Hatshepsut
Hathor, 46, 559, 901
Hatshepsut, 388-391, 571, 885, 902
Hatshipsitu. See Hatshepsut
He, 153
Healing and religion, 865
Heautontimorumenos (Terence), 850
Hebdomades. See Imagines
Hebrews. See Jews
Hecale. See Ekalē
Hecataeus, 407
Hector, 428
Hectoris lytra (Ennius), 301
Hecuba. See Hekabē
Hecyra (Terence), 850
Hedonism, 88
Hegesias, 89
Hegesipyle, 564
Hekabē (Euripides), 327
Helen, 428
Helena, Saint, 239, 391-393
Helenē (Euripides), 328
Heliocentrism, 78, 418, 713
Hellenism, 39; Alexandria and, 721; Christianity and, 821, 918; ideology and, 450;
Judaism and, 612; Rome and, 75
Hellenistic art, 524
Hellespont, crossing of, 972
Helots, 15, 616, 621
Helvia, 766
Helvidius Priscus, 104
Hengist, 394-396
Hepta epi Thēbas (Aeschylus), 9
Hera of Argos (Polyclitus), 676
Heracles, 70, 374
Heraclitus (poet), 180
Heraclitus of Ephesus, 59, 397-400
Hērakleidai (Euripides), 327
Herbalists, 291
Hercules, 73
Heresies; Arian, 43; Eusebius and, 331; Irenaeus and, 443; Priscillian and, 699
Hermarchus, 308
Hermes, 695
Hermes (Praxiteles), 694
Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysus (Kephisodotus), 694
Hermias, 65, 872
Hermippus, 128
Hermitages, Christian, 62
Hermits; Saint Anthony of Egypt, 60; Christian, 205
Hero of Alexandria, 325, 401-403
Herod Agrippa I, 626, 640
Herod Antipas, 475, 645
Herod the Great, 75, 403-406, 458
Herodes Magnus. See Herod the Great
Herodian of Syria, 486
Herodotus, 244, 407-409, 556, 558, 884
Heroism; Greek, 507; Roman, 518
Herophilus, 311, 410-413. See also Diaitētikon; Maiōtikon; Peri sphygmōn; Pros tas koinas doxas
Hesiod, 413-417, 856, 966
Hetaeras, 127
Hetairikoi dialogoi (Lucian), 515
Hexapla (Origen), 600
Hezekiah, 448, 769
Hiero I, 8, 794
Hiero II, 80
Hiketides (Aeschylus), 9, 877
Hiketides (Euripides), 327
Hilarius, 947
Hilderic, 354
Hillel, Rabbi, 2, 29, 468
Himerius, 361
Himiko, 465
Hīnayāna Buddhism. See Buddhism, Hīnayāna; Buddhism, Theravāda
Hinduism, 501; Buddhism and, 171; Zoroastrianism and, 993
Hipparchikos (Xenophon), 969
Hipparchus (astronomer), 417-420, 712
Hipparchus of Athens, 651, 793
Hippēs (Aristophanes), 91
Hippias of Athens, 226, 651, 793, 859
Hippocrates (physician), 84, 114, 199, 277, 349, 420-423
Hippocratic oath, 422
Hippolytos (Euripides), 327
Hippolytus of Rome, 423-427
Hiram of Tyre, 804
Historia Arianorum (Athanasius), 134
Historia Augusta, 486, 987
Historia Britonum (Nennius), 394
Historia ecclesiastica (Eusebius of Caesarea), 330, 442
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Bede), 394
Historia regum Britanniae (Geoffrey of Monmouth), 394
Historia tou Peloponnesiacou polemou (Thucydides), 478, 882
Historiae (Sallust), 743
Historiae (Tacitus), 838
Historiai Herodotou (Herodotus), 109, 136, 248, 251, 407, 618, 631, 807, 827
Histories, The (Polybius), 674
Historiography; Chinese, 149, 782; Christian, 330; Dio Cassius, 275; geography and, 828;
Greek, 883, 970; Herodotus and, 407; Livy and, 511; Plutarch and, 671; Polybius and, 673;
Posidonius and, 692; Roman, 743; Tacitus, 838. See also History; Category Index
History, The. See Historiai Herodotou
History; geography and, 828; rhetoric and, 451; Roman, 302; travel and, 619. See also Historiography
History of Rome, The. See Ab urbe condita libri
History of the Affairs of Greece. See Ellēnika
History of the Arians. See Historia Arianorum
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 139
History of the Former Han Dynasty. See Han Shu
History of the Peloponnesian War. See Historia tou Peloponnesiacou polemou
History of the Twelve Caesars. See De vita Caesarum
Hittites; sacking of Babylon, 377; in Egypt, 47, 736
Ho Yen, 950
Homer, 196, 407, 427-430, 633, 827, 856, 966
Homērika zētēmata (Porphyry), 689
Homicide, 294; pollution and, 293
Homosexuality; Greek, 14; Roman, 494
Homuta. See Ōjin Tennō
Homutawake no Mikoto. See Ōjin Tennō
Honoria, 140
Honorius, Flavius, 352, 824, 870
Horace, 196, 430-434, 493, 528, 602, 939
Horemheb, 27, 585, 587, 908
Horror vacui (mechanical principle), 311
Horsa, 394
Horses, Central Asian, 960
Horti Sallustiani, 742
Horus, 557, 705, 996
Hoshea, 893
Hsieh K'ang-lo. See Xie Lingyun
Hsieh Ling-yün. See Xie Lingyun
Hu Hao, 781
Huai Wang, 732
Hugieina pros Pleistarkhon (Diocles), 278
Human figure, sculpture of, 676
Humanism; Confucian, 237; paganism and, 363
Humanity, origin of; map, lvii
Humors, theory of the four, 84, 115, 278, 312, 349, 422
Hundred Schools period, 979
Hungary, Huns in, 140
Hunneric, 353
Huns, 138, 776, 868
Hurrians, 121
Hutaosâ. See Atossa
Hydaspes, Battle of the (326 b.c.e.), 202
Hydatius of Emerita, 698
Hydraulic engineering, Greek, 323
Hygieia, 761
Hygiene; Greek, 278
Hyginus of Cordova, 698, 918
Hyksos, 389, 585
Hymns, 298, 732
Hypatia, 79, 434-436
Hypsicles of Alexandria, 317
Hyrcanus, 403

I
Iambic senarii (poetic meter), 629
Iamblichus, 288, 701
Iamboi (Callimachus), 180
Ibrahim. See Abraham
Idealism in art, 635
Ideals, Platonic, 88, 660
Idolatry, 1, 258, 574
Ignatius of Antioch, 437-439
Iliad (Homer), 407, 427, 635
Ilipa, Battle of (206 b.c.e.), 758
Iliupersis (Polygnotus), 678
Illyria, 638
Imagines (Varro), 929
Imhotep, 439-442, 996
Immaculate Conception, 539
Imperial Academy, 960
Imperialism, Roman, 19
In Delum (Callimachus), 180
In laudem Basilii Magni (Gregory of Nazianzus), 361
In Praise of Constantine. See Oratio de laudibus Constantini
Inanna, 298, 915
Incest, 107; brother-sister, 213, 545, 716; father-daughter, 188, 588; sibling marriage, 136
Incubation sleep, 441
Indeterminate analysis, 82
India; Christianity and, 880; Greece and, 551; map, lxxiv. See also Geographical Index
"Indictment of Nanna, The" (Enheduanna), 299
Infantry, Macedonian, 638
"In-min-me-hus-a" (Enheduanna), 299
Insanity, classification of, 86
"Inscription on the Buddha-Shadow" (Xie Lingyun), 976
Instantius, 698
Intermarriage, Judaism on, 340
Introduction of Porphyry, The. See Isagoge
Iōn (Euripides), 328
Iophon (son of Sophocles), 811
Iphigeneia ē en Aulidi (Euripides), 328
Iphigeneia ē en Taurois (Euripides), 328
Iphigenia in Aulis. See Iphigeneia ē en Aulidi
Iphigenia in Tauris. See Iphigeneia ē en Taurois
Ipsus, Battle of (301 b.c.e.), 64, 203
Ireland, Agricola and, 18
Irenaeus, Saint, 224, 423, 442-446
Irrigation; Assyrian, 769; Mesopotamian, 916
"Is," definition of, 609
Isaac, 6
Isaeus, 264
Isagoge (Porphyry), 688
Isagoras, 221, 226
Isaiah, 446-449
Ishmael, 5
Ishme-Dagan, 376
Ishtar, 582, 769
Isis, 11, 107, 231
Islam; Abraham in, 6; Aksum and, 334; Moses and, 574
Isocrates, 128, 450-452
Israel; division of, 2; Egypt and, 803; kingdom of, 447; state of, 5. See also
Judaea; Judah; Geographical Index
Istnofret, 585
Ithacius, 699

J
Jadhima, 988
Jael, 259
Jainism, 355, 924; Chandragupta Maurya and, 204; Digambara, 925; Svetambara, 925
James, Saint, 471, 624
Japan; China and, 595; Korea and, 594. See also Geographical Index
Jason, 326
Jātakas, 345
Jebel Hamrin, 299
Jehoiachin, 336
Jehoiakim, 335, 453, 582
Jehovah. See Yahweh
Jeremiah, 336, 453-455, 582
Jeroboam, 806
Jerome, Saint, 365, 426, 456-458, 520, 796
Jerusalem; as Christian metaphor, 143; David and, 255; Sennacherib and, 770
Jesus, 3, 255, 458-462, 470, 539, 645, 879. See also Christianity
Jethro, 573
Jewish War (66-70 c.e.), 469, 879
Jews, 1; Christianity and, 43; Cyrus the Great and, 249; deportations of, 893; Egypt and, 572;
Hadrian and, 371; history of, 805; Philistines and, 747; Rome and, 219, 477
Jian An (literary period), 184
Jimmu Tennō, 462-464
Jina. See Vardhamāna
Jing Xiang, 733
Jingō-kōgō. See Jingū
Jingū, 465-468, 594
Jisu jieyi (Wang Chong), 953
Jiu ge (Qu Yuan), 732
Jixia Academy, 978
Johanan ben Zakkai, 468-471
John the Apostle, 437, 471-473, 624
John the Baptist, Saint, 474-476, 539, 879
Jordanes, 911
Joseph (husband of Mary), 539
Joseph ben Matthias. See Josephus, Flavius
Josephus, Flavius, 30, 249, 260, 405, 459, 475, 477-480, 557, 645. See also Antiquitates
Judaicae
; Bellum Judaicum
Josiah, 335, 453
Jovian, 776
Juba II, 829
Judaea; Herod and, 404; Rome and, 469, 682. See also Israel; Judah
Judah, kingdom of, 335, 338, 447, 453, 711, 770, 893; Nebuchadnezzar and, 582.
See also Israel; Judaea
Judah, tribe of, 1
Judaism; difficulties in Babylon, 337; return from Babylonian Exile, 339; Christianity and, 330, 372,
437, 612, 822, 879; Dio Cassius on, 276; Ezekiel and, 337; history of, 6, 478; Jesus Christ and, 459;
paganism and, 453; Pharisees and, 468; priests, 1; reform of, 460; Rome and, 404, 644;
scholarship in, 29; Talmudic, 470; Temple and, 469, 804
Judas Iscariot, 460
Jugurtha, 533, 743, 831
Jugurthine War, 533
Julia III, 489-492, 591
Julia Agrippina. See Agrippina the Younger
Julia Domna, 480-483, 487, 988
Julia Livilla, 766
Julia Maesa, 487
Julia Mamaea, 483-486, 601
Julia Soaemias, 486-489
Julian calendar, 174, 816
Julian the Apostate, 134, 242, 363, 776
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 168
Julius Caesar, Gaius. See Caesar, Julius
Julius Phaeder, Gaius. See Phaedrus
Juno, 272
Justice; Athenian, 293; Mencius on, 555
Justinian, 354
Juvenal, 493-495
Juvenalian satire, 493

K
Kadesh (state), 886
Kadesh, Battle of (1274 b.c.e.), 737
Kaika, 465
Kalhu (Assyria), 122
Kālidāsa, 496-498. See also Abhijñãānaśākuntala; Kumārasambhava; Meghadūta; Raghuvamśa
Kaminaga Hime, 595
Kanishka, 130, 499-501
Karma, 161; Jainism and, 925
Karnak, temples at, 26
Kata Christanōn (Porphyry), 688
Kata Kelsou (Origen), 330
Kata pasōn haireseōn elenkhos (Hippolytus), 423
Kata Philippou (Demosthenes), 265
Kata tōn sophistōn (Isocrates), 450
Katharmoi (Empedocles), 295
Kavya (poetic form), 131, 496
Keitai, 462
Kent, kingdom of, 395
Kephisodotos, 694
Kepler, Johannes, 78
Khafre, 558
Khamerernebty II, 559
Khazars, 141
Khentkawes, 560
Khnum, 440
Khufu, 558
Ki-di-nu, 580
Kingship; Chinese, 553; Egyptian, 887; Jewish, 747; religion and, 736
Kiya, 28, 588
Klementos pros Korinthious epistola prōtē (Clement), 224
Knights, The. See Hippēs
Kofun tombs, 596
Koguryo, 466
Kojiki, 462, 465
Kokhba, Simeon bar, 470
Kong Qiu. See Confucius
Kongfuzi. See Confucius
Kongzi. See Confucius
Korea, 465, 594
Krio, 227
Kroisos. See Croesus
Kujūla Kadphises, 499
Kumārasambhava (Kālidāsa), 497
Kumawashi, Hashirō, 465
K'ung Ch'iu. See Confucius
K'ung-Fu-Tzu. See Confucius
K'ung-Tzu. See Confucius
Kush, 655; Aksum and, 334
Kushāns, 499, 775, 959
Kykloy metresis (Archimedes), 82
Kynēgetikos (Xenophon), 969
Kyrou anabasis (Xenophon), 968
Kyrou paideia (Xenophon), 248, 969

L
Lachēs (Plato), 799
Lachish, siege of, 769
Laelius, Gaius, 757, 813, 850
Laelius de amicitia (Cicero), 757
La Fontaine, Jean de, 13
Lagash, 915
Laius (Aeschylus), 9
Lamian War (323-322 b.c.e.), 267
Lamprus, 809
Lansdowne Heracles (Scopas), 762
Lanting xu (Wang Xizhi), 957
Lanuvinus, Luscius, 851
Lao Ai, 779
Lao Dan. See Laozi
Laodice, 567
Lao-tan. See Laozi
Lao-tzu. See Laozi
Laozi, 502-505
Lars Porsenna, 846
Lasus of Hermione, 646, 793
Latifundia, 358
Latin; Bible and, 457; philology, 217
Latium, 848
Law; Babylonian, 582; Dao as, 503; Draco's code, 293; Greek, 293; Greek oratory and, 264;
Hammurabi's code, 377; Jewish, 574, 611; Lucretius on, 521; Roman, 210, 371, 537, 766, 853;
Solon and, 807; Ur-Nammu's code, 915. See also Category Index
Laws. See Nomoi
Legalism, 379, 503, 578, 779, 979
Legend; historiography and, 467
Legenda aurea (Jacobus de Voragine), 205
Legends; births of rulers, 248; foundation of Carthage, 272; Diogenes, 284; historiography and, 783;
Japanese, 594; poetry and, 794; foundation of Rome, 273; Sammu-ramat and, 746; Zoroaster, 992
Lenaea. See Dionysia
Lentulus, Publius Cornelius, 819
Leo the Great, 140, 353
Leonidas I, 505-508, 615, 973
Leonidas II, 228
Leontiades, 304
Leotychides, 227
Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius, 145
Leprosy, 86, 391
Lerinensis, Vincentius. See Vincent of Lérins, Saint
Lesbia. See Clodia
Lesbianism, 751
Lessons for Women. See Nu jie (Ban Zhao)
Letters to Lucilius. See Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Leucippus, 261, 610
Leuctra, Battle of (371 b.c.e.), 16, 227, 304, 969
Levers, 82
Lexicons, Latin, 942
Li, 979
Li Er. See Laozi
Li Guangli, 959
Li Ling, 783
Li Sao (Qu Yuan), 733
Li Si, 381, 780, 979
Libanius, 862
Libation Bearers. See Choēphoroi
Liber Pontificalis, 796
Liberty vs. state authority, 839
Libraries, Roman, 927
Licinius, Valerius Licinianus, 240, 242
Lienü zhuan (Ban Zhao), 154
Lies, fiction and, 876
Life of Agricola, The. See De vita Julii Agricolae
Life of Constantine. See Vita Constantini
Life of Saint Anthony, The. See Vita S. Antonii
Linnaeus, Carolus, 291
Literacy; Japanese, 595; Mesopotamia, 117
Literary criticism, Alexandrian, 316
Literary patronage, Roman, 527
Literature. See Category Index
Liu Bang, 781, 958
Liu Ch'e. See Wudi
Liu Wu, 785
Liu Xiang, 979
Liu Yi, 975
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. See Peri biōn dogmatōn kai
apophthegmatōn tōn en philosophia eudokimē

Lives of the Grammarians. See De grammaticis et rhetoribus
Livia Drusilla, 146, 489, 508-511, 842, 888
Livius Andronicus, 301
Livy, 382, 511-513, 813
Logic, 261; music and, 98
Logos, 397; Yahweh and, 642
Logos eis Agēsilaon Basilea (Xenophon), 969
London, sack of (60/61), 164
Longinus, Cassius (philosopher), 687, 751, 988
Longinus, Gaius Cassius. See Cassius
Lot, 4
Loukios e Onos (Lucian), 515
Love poetry, 197, 704, 835
Lu Buwei, 779
Lucan, 593
Lucian (satirist), 513-516, 631. See also Alēthon Diēgēmaton; Bion Prasis;
Hetairikoi dialogoi; Loukios e Onos; Nekrikoi dialogoi; Rhētorōn didaskalos;
Symposion; Theōn dialogoi
Lucian of Antioch, 791
Lucius: Or, The Ass. See Loukios e Onos
Lucius Sergius Catilina. See Catiline
Lucrece. See Lucretia
Lucresse. See Lucretia
Lucretia, 512, 517-519, 846
Lucretius, 263, 520-522
Lucretius Tricipitinus, Spurius, 517
Lucullus, Lucius Licinius, 568, 896
Lun heng (Wang Chong), 953
Lunyu (Confucius), 236, 555, 950
Luther, Martin, 89
Luxor, temples at, 46
Lyceum, 95, 277, 872, 981
Lycurgus of Athens, 649
Lycurgus of Babylon, 11
Lysander of Sparta, 14, 34
Lysandra, 106, 716
Lysanias, 314
Lysicles, 128
Lysimachus, 63, 105, 716, 721, 763
Lysippus, 523-526
Lysis of Tarentum, 303
Lysistratē (Aristophanes), 92

M
Ma Rong, 153
Ma Zu, 149
Ma'at, 735, 902
Maatkare. See Hatshepsut
Maccabaeus, Judas, 403
Macedonia; Athens and, 638; Illyria and, 638; Sparta and, 637; Thebes and, 637.
See also Geographical Index
Macedonius, 865
Macrinus, 482, 487
Macro, Naevius Cordus Sutorius, 177
Macrobius, 489
Madhyāntavibhāga, 113
Maecenas, Gaius, 21, 431, 527-529, 602, 704, 939
Magas, 716
Magi, Three, 392
Magic; Egyptian, 440; religion and, 424
Magna Graecia, 36
Magnesia, Battle of (190 b.c.e.), 895
Mahāvīra. See Vardhamāna
Mahābhārata;, 922
Mahākassapa, 50
Mahāpajāpatī, 50
Mahāparinirvāna Sūtra, 346
Mahāvamsa, 898
Mahāvīra, 925
Mahāvīra Monastery, 899
Mahāyāna Buddhism, 931, 934; Chinese, 950. See also Buddhism, Mahāyāna
Mahāyānasamgraha (Asanga), 112, 930
Mahāyānasūtralankāra (Asanga), 113
Mahinda Thera, 898, 934
Mahrem, 334
Maiōtikon (Herophilus), 411
Maitreya, 112, 345. See also Buddha
Maitreyanātha, 111, 113
Mālavikāgnimitra (Kālidāsa), 496
Malchos. See Porphyry
Malchus. See Porphyry
Manasseh, 448
Mandate of Heaven, 553
Manetho, 556
Manichaeanism, 142, 698
Mantinea, Battle of (361 b.c.e.), 306
Maps; Alexandrian, 315; astronomical, 418; Greek, 55
Marathon, Battle of (490 b.c.e.), 8, 52, 92, 109, 253, 408, 505, 565, 630, 651, 678, 794, 859
Marathons, 632
Marcella, 457
Marcellina, 42
Marcellus, Marcus Claudius (268?-208 b.c.e.), 83, 343, 383
Marcellus, Marcus Claudius (42-23 b.c.e.), 490
Marcellus, Varius, 487
March of the Ten Thousand, 968
Marcion, 600
Marcionism, 854
Marcus Aurelius, 372, 443, 530-532
Mardonius, 110, 615
Marduk, 337, 582, 971
Margus, Treaty of (434 c.e.), 139
Mariamne, 404
Marinus, 701
Mariology, 540
Marius, Gaius, 172, 359, 533-536, 681, 691, 743, 831
Maro, Publius Vergilius. See Vergil
Marriage; in comedy, 548; Egyptian customs, 107
Mars, 758
Martial, 102, 493, 536-538
Martial arts, Bodhidharma and, 161
Martyrdom; Christianity and, 205, 268, 600, 613, 626, 853; Ignatius, 438;
pagans, 435; saints and, 821; torture and, 206
Mary (mother of Jesus), 539-541
Masada, 477
Masinissa, 542-544, 759, 813
Massacres; Pontius Pilate and, 645; Thessalonica, 44
Massagetae, 249
Massylians, 542
Materialis, 263
Mathematics; Alexandrian, 402, 434; Arabic, 288; astronomy and, 78, 579; and
concept of beauty, 677; Eratosthenes and, 316; geography and, 828; Greek, 76, 81, 286, 606;
human proportions and, 676; sculpture and, 523. See also Category Index
Mathēmatikē syntaxis (Ptolemy), 78, 417, 435, 580, 606, 713
Matho, 374
Mati'-ilu, 892
Matnefrure, 737
Matralia, Festival of, 510
Matter, concepts of, 58
Matthias, Joseph ben. See Josephus, Flavius
Maurya. See Chandragupta Maurya
Mauryan Dynasty, 203, 898
Mausalaus, 761
Mausalous. See Mausolus
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, 761
Mausolus, 545-547
Maxentius, 282
Maximian, 239, 281, 391, 645
Maximinus, 426
Maximus, Magnus, 43, 699, 797
Maximus of Isaurian Seleucia, 862
Māyā (Buddha's mother), 169
Mechanikē syntaxis (Philon of Byzantium), 247
Medea, 326
Mēdeia (Euripides), 326, 810
Medical diagnosis, 86, 278
Medicine; Alcmaeon's philosophy of, 36; Egyptian, 440; Greek, 36, 84, 114, 277; Hippocratic, 420;
Roman, 199, 290. See also Category Index
Meditations. See Tōn eis heauton
Mediterranean; map, lxv
Megacles, 293, 649
Megalópolis, Arcadia, 305
Megarics, 801
Megasthenes, 204
Meghadūta (Kālidāsa), 496
Megiddo (city), 804
Megiddo, Battle of (c. 1482 b.c.e.), 259, 887
Meir, Rabbi, 30
Melanchros, 653
Melchizadek, 5
Meleager, 761
Melissus, 610
Melqart, 271, 373
Memmius, Gaius, 520
Memorabilia of Socrates. See Apomnēmoneumata
Menaechmi (Plautus), 662
Menander (dramatist), 307, 547-550, 663, 850. See also Aspis; Dyskolos;
Epitrepontes; Perikeiromenē; Samia
Menander (Greco-Bactrian king), 550-552
Mencius, 238, 380, 552-555, 577, 954, 979, 989
Menelaus of Alexandria, 419
Menes, 556-558
Menexenos (Plato), 128
Meng Haoran, 844
Mengde. See Cao Cao
Mengke. See Mencius
Mengk'o. See Mencius
Meng-te. See Cao Cao
Meng-tzu. See Mencius
Mengzi. See Mencius
Menippean Satires. See Saturae Menippiae
Menippus, 514
Menkaure, 558-560
Menkheperre' Thutmose. See Thutmose III
Menōn (Plato), 660
Mental illness; Asclepiades on, 116; Caligula, 178; Herod, 404
Mentuemhat, 710
Mentuhotep II. See Montuhotep II
Mentuhotpe II. See Montuhotep II
Menzi (Mencius), 552
Merenptah, 585, 737
Meritaton, 28
Merodachbaladan, 753, 769, 894
Meryetamen, 586
Mesoamerica; map, lx
Mesopotamia. See Geographical Index under Assyria; Mesopotamia
Messalla, 834
Messallina, Statilia, 593
Messallina, Valeria, 24, 102, 219, 235, 561-563, 766
Messenia, foundation of, 305
Messiah; Jesus Christ as, 255, 539; in Judaism, 31, 879
Metamorphoses (Apuleius), 515
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 180, 521, 603
Metaphysica (Aristotle), 95, 322, 609, 725
Metaphysics. See Tōn meta ta physika
Metellus, Quintus Caecilius, 533
Metempsychosis. See Transmigration of souls
Methodism, 84, 115, 199
Metilius, 343
Metrodorus the Younger, 308
Michal, 255
Michi no Omi, 463
Middle East. See Geographical Index under Asia Minor; Assyria; Egypt; Israel; Mesopotamia; Persia
Middle Kingdom (Egypt), 887
Middle Way, 131, 169
Midwifery. See Maiōtikon
Migration, Germanic, 351
Miles gloriosus (Plautus), 663
Miletus, scientists from, 58
Milindapañha (Menander), 550
Millais, John Everett, 3
Miltiades the Younger, 213, 563-566, 631, 649, 794, 859
Milvian Bridge, Battle of the (312 c.e.), 240
Ming (emperor), 149
Minucia, 512
Minucius, Lucius, 343
Miracles; Apostles and, 626; Saint Christopher and, 205; Jesus and, 460; True Cross and, 392
Miriam, 2
Misăheun, 466
Miscellanies. See Saturae
Mishnah, 29
Missionaries; Apostles as, 626; Buddhist, 898; Christianity and, 613; Saint Thomas, 880
Mitanni, 887
Mithra, 994
Mithradates V Euergetes, 567
Mithradates VI Eupator, 535, 567-569, 682, 827, 831, 895, 927
Mithradates Chrestus, 567
Mithradatic Wars, 568
Mithrism, 994
Mohism, 576
Moloch, 805
Molon, 65
Monarchy; empire versus, 281; Roman, 517, 846
Monasteries; Buddhist, 112; Christian, 61
Monasticism; Athanasius and, 134; Buddhist, 50, 345, 899, 934; Christian, 208,
456, 789, 862, 865, 947; Pythagorean brotherhood and, 725
Monism, 58, 609
Monotheism; Egyptian, 28, 588, 902, 908; Greek, 70, 966; Judaism and, 4;
paganism and, 604; Zoroastrian, 993
Mons Graupius, Battle of (83 c.e.), 18
Monsters, origin of, 295
Montanism, 443, 854
Montu, 570
Montuhotep II, 570-572
Moralia. See Ethika
Morals; Confucianism and, 236; fables and, 629; pleasure and, 88; virtue and, 88
Mortification of the flesh, 789
Moses, 1, 539, 572-575
Mother-in-Law, The. See Hecyra
Mount Sinai, 1
Mount Vesuvius, 666
Mozi, 576-578
Mozi (Mozi), 576
Muhammad, 6
Mummification, 909; anatomy and, 410
Mummy's curse, 909
Muses, 11, 413
Museum of Alexandria; mathematics, 317
Music; Confucianism on, 237; poetry and, 647. See also Category Index
Musical intervals, 726
Mutina, Battle of (73 b.c.e.), 819
Mutina, Battle of (43 b.c.e.), 145
Mycenaean era, 427
Myron, 633
Myrsilus, 653
Mysteries of Samothrace. See Mystery religions
Mystery religions, 423, 597; Eleusinian, 7; Judaism and, 642; Orphic, 70; Samothrace, 597
Mysticism; Daoism and, 503; Jewish, 336; nature and, 397
"Myth of Inanna and Ebih, The." See "In-min-me-hus-a"
Mythology; Buddhist, 161; Chinese, 553, 732; civilization and, 415; classical, 603; Greek, 414;
Greek drama, 326; history and, 408; philosophy and, 307, 856; poetry and, 646, 704, 795; Roman drama, 301;
science and, 58; travel and, 619

N
Nabonidus, 249, 298, 583
Nabopolassar, 335, 582, 711
Nabū-kudurri-usur. See Nebuchadnezzar II
Nabu-nasir, 892
Nabu-rimanni, 579-581
Naevius, Gnaeus, 301
Nag Hammadi works, 918
Nāgārjuna, 112
Nagasune Hiko, 463
Nakatsuhime, 594
Nālānda, 113
Nanda (half brother of Buddha), 130
Nanda Dynasty, 203
Nanna, 298, 915
Naram-Sin, 299, 366, 916
Narcissus, 219, 561
Narmer, 557
Nasi (title), 29
Naso, Publius Ovidius. See Ovid
Nathan, 155, 256, 803
Nationalism, German, 101
Natural history. See Category Index
Natural History. See Naturalis historia
Natural law, doctrine of, 692
Natural Questions. See Quaestiones naturales
Natural science, Greek, 295. See also Category Index under Science
Naturalis historia (Pliny the Elder), 23, 665, 677, 817
Nature (Anaxagoras), 52
Nature; concepts of, 55; culture and, 283; cycles and, 56
Nature poetry; Chinese, 977
Naval warfare, 109; Punic Wars, 373
Navy, Greek, 859
Nebhepetra. See Montuhotep II
Nebhepetre. See Montuhotep II
Nebuchadnezzar II, 335, 338, 453, 582-584
Necho I, 118, 710
Necho II, 387, 582
Necropolises, 997
Nectanabo, 11
Nefertari, 585-587, 737, 902
Nefertiti, 27, 46, 587-590, 902
Neferure, 389
Nehemiah, 339
Neithhotep, 557
Nekrikoi dialogoi (Lucian), 514
Nekyia (Polygnotus), 679
Neo-Assyrian Empire, 753, 769, 894
Neo-Daoism, 950, 955
Neoplatonism, 263, 668, 688; Augustine and, 142; Christianity and, 361; Hypatia and, 435;
mathematics and, 607; religion and, 702; Valentinians and, 921. See also Platonism
Neoterics, 198
Nephelai (Aristophanes), 91, 708
Nepos, Cornelius, 197
Neptune, 178
Nero, 23, 71, 104, 176, 219, 591-593, 685, 767, 944
Nero, Tiberius Claudius. See Tiberius
Nero Caesar Augustus, Tiberius Claudius. See Tiberius
Nero Germanicus, Tiberius Claudius Drusus. See Claudius I
Nerva, Marcus Cocceius, 904
Nestorianism, 864
Nestorius, 540, 864, 948
Netjerikhet. See Zoser
New Comedy, 93, 547, 663, 850
New Kingdom (Egypt), 26, 388, 441, 735, 886, 902
New Testament, 135, 445
Newton, Isaac, 83
Nicaea, Council of (325 c.e.), 133, 331, 364, 392, 444, 540, 797, 912
Nicene Creed, 44, 242, 363, 392, 854, 869; Athanasius and, 133
Nicomedes III of Bithynia, 895
Nicomedes IV, 895
Nigantha Nātaputra. See Vardhamāna
Nihon shoki, 462, 465
Nihongi. See Nihon shoki
Nine Songs, The. See Jiu ge
Nineteenth Dynasty (Egypt), 585, 735
Nineveh; architecture, 769; library at, 119
Ningirsu, 366
Ninsun, 914
Nintoku, 594
Ninurta, 122
Ninus, 745
Nisibis, Peace of (298 b.c.e.), 775
Nitocris, 710
Niyata, 356
Noble savage, myth of the, 838
Noctes Atticae (Gellius), 939
Nofretete. See Nefertiti
Nominalism, 88, 688
Nomoi (Plato), 660
North America; map, lix
Nous, 918
Novatianism, 796
Nu jie (Ban Gu), 149
Nu jie (Ban Zhao), 153
Nü xiao jing, 153
Nubia, 46, 48, 570, 655, 772
Nudity in sculpture, 696
Numantine Wars, 358
Numantinus, Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus. See Scipio Aemilianus
Number and music, 98
Numbers; polygonal, 288
Numerology; Chinese, 464; Greek, 424
Numidia; Carthage and, 542, 813; Rome and, 533, 743, 813
Numidians, 542
Numisianos, 348
Nuns, Buddhist, 899

O
Octavia, 71, 75, 561, 591, 685
Octavian. See Augustus
Octavius, Gnaeus, 832
Octavius, Marcus, 358
Octha. See Oisc
Odaenathus, Septimus, 986
"Ode to Aphrodite" (Sappho), 751
Odes. See Epinikia
Odes (Horace), 432, 528, 604
Odysseus, 428
Odyssey (Homer), 315, 427, 432, 610, 689
Oedipus (Aeschylus), 9
Oedipus at Colonus. See Oidipous epi Kolōnōi
Oenomaus, 819
Ohosazaki. See Nintoku
Oidipous epi Kolōnōi (Sophocles), 809
Oidipous tyrannos (Sophocles), 9, 810
Oisc, 395
Ōjin Tennō, 466, 594-596
Okinaga Tarashi Hime no Mikoto. See Jingū
Old Comedy, 92, 850
Old Kingdom (Egypt), 559; map, lxiii
Old Testament; composition of, 135; David and, 255
Oligarchy, Athenian, 221
Olunthiakos (Demosthenes), 265
Olympia, shrine at, 676
Olympiads, 316
Olympias, 39, 108, 364, 597-599, 639
Olympionikai (Eratosthenes), 315
Omens, 244; dreams, 240, 245, 275; interpretation of, 11; Tanaquil and, 841; Tarquin and, 840
On Abraham. See De Abrahamo
On Admonition and Grace. See De correptione et gratia
On Agriculture. See De agricultura; De re rustica
On Ancient Medicine. See Peri archaies ietrikes
On Architecture. See De architectura
On Balance. See Lun heng
On Bandages. See Peri epideomōn
On Christian Doctrine. See De doctrina Christiana
On Conoids and Spheroids. See Peri konoeideon kai sphaireodeon
On Digestion. See Peri pepeseōs
"On Distinguishing What Is Essential." See "Bienzong Lun"
On Divisions of Figures. See Peri diaireseon biblion
On Fevers. See Peri puretōn
On Fire and Air. See Peri puros kai aeros
On First Principles. See Peri archōn
On Floating Bodies. See Peri ochoymenon
On Friendship. See Laelius de amicitia
On His Life. See Carmen de vita sua
On Hunting. See Kynēgetikos
On Illustrious Men. See De viris illustribus
On Joseph. See De Josepho
"On Leaving My District" (Xie Lingyun), 977
On Lethal Drugs. See Peri thanasimōn pharmakōn
On Nature. See De natura; Peri physeōs
On Old Age. See Cato maior de senectute
On Philosophy. See De philosophia
On Prayer. See Peri eykhēs
On Providence. See De providentia
On Pulses. See Peri sphygmfn
On Rewards and Punishments. See De praemiis et poenis
On Spirals. See Peri helikon
On St. Basil the Great. See In laudem Basilii Magni
On the Art of War. See Sunzi Bingfa
On the Cavalry General. See Hipparchikos
"On the Chersonese." See "Peri tōn en Cherronesoi," 4
On the Creation. See De opificis mundi
"On the Crown." See "Peri tou Stephanou"
On the Decalogue. See De Decalogo
On the Equilibrium of Planes. See Epipledon isorropion
On the Equipment of a Surgery. See Peri tōn kat iētreion
On the Heavens. See De caelo
On the Incarnation (Theodore of Mopsuestia), 863
On the Incarnation of the Word of God. See De incarnatione Verbi Dei
On the Latin Language. See De lingua Latina
On the Life of Moses. See De vita Moysis
On the Measurement of the Circle. See Kykloy metresis
On the Method of Mechanical Theorems. See Peri tōn mechanikon theorematon
On the Nature of Things. See De rerum natura
On the Priesthood. See De sacerdotio
On the Quadrature of the Parabola. See Tetragonismos ten tou orthogonion konoy tomes
On the Soul. See De anima
On the Spectacles. See Epigrammaton liber
On the Sphere and the Cylinder. See Peri sphairas kai kylindron
On the Sublime. See Peri hypsous
On the Trinity. See De Trinitate
On the Twelve Prophets (Theodore of Mopsuestia), 864
On the Unchangeableness of God. See Quod Deus sit immutabilis
On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body. See Peri chreias morion
On Treatment. See Peri therapeiōn
On Vegetables. See Rhizotomika, Peri lakhanōn
On Ways and Means. See Poroi
On Women's Diseases. See Peri gunaikeiōn
Onnes, 745
Optika (Euclid), 318
Oracles; Hypatia, 434; prophecy and, 259. See also Delos; Delphi
Oral tradition; Aśoka, 124; Buddhism, 50, 345; Homer, 427; Polybius's use of, 674; Roman, 848
Oratio apologetica de fuga sua (Gregory of Nazianzus), 361
Oratio de laudibus Constantini (Eusebius), 331
Orationae (Gregory of Nazianzus), 361
Oratory; Cato the Censor, 192; Cicero, 210; Greek, 33, 128, 209, 264, 450, 622;
politics and, 172; Roman, 194, 210, 513
Ordovices, 17
Oresteia (Aeschylus), 9, 633, 810
Orestēs (Euripides), 328
Orestes of Alexandria, 435
Origen, 209, 330, 363, 423, 485, 599-602, 668. See also Contra Celsum;
Peri archōn; Peri eykhēs
Origenism, 699
Origin myths; Japanese, 462; Roman, 939
Original Sin; doctrine of, 854; Saint Augustine on, 143
Origines (Cato), 192
Ornithes (Aristophanes), 90
Orosius, Paulus, 699
Orphic Mysteries. See Mystery religions
Orthodoxy, Christian, 948
Osiris, 107, 996
Ostracism, 215, 222; Themistocles, 861
Ostrogoths, 353
Otho, Marcus Salvius, 685
Ovid, 491, 602-605, 834. See also Ars amatoria; Metamorphoses; Tristia
Oxeon kai chronion nouson therapeutikon biblion (Aretaeus), 85
"Ozymandias" (Shelley), 737

P
Paekche, 466
Paetus, Aulus Caecina, 102
Paganism, 331; Christianity and, 268, 437, 791, 798, 853, 869; decline of, 42; Dio Cassius on, 276;
Gothic, 911; Saint Helena and, 392; Judaism and, 4, 340, 453; Neoplatonism and, 701;
philosophy and, 702; revival of, 363
Palestine. See Israel; Judaea; Judah
Pāli Canon, 169
Pāli Tipitaka, 934
Pallas, 219
Palmyrene Empire, 988
Pamphilus, 330
Pan, 631
Pan Ku. See Ban Gu
Pan Meng-chien. See Ban Gu
Panaenus, 635
Panaetius of Rhodes, 690, 757
Panathenaea, Greater, 651
Pandora, 415
Panegyricus (Isocrates), 450
Panhellenic League, 505
Panhellenism, 41
Pantheon, Roman, 20, 371
Pap (Armenian king), 776
Papacy; evolution of, 796; foundation of, 225; Saint Peter and, 626
Papal infallibility, 425
Pappus, 78, 606-608
Pappus problem, 607
Parallel Lives. See Bioi paralleloi
Paramārtha, 111, 930
Pāramitās, 112
Paris, 428; Christianity and, 268
Park, Mungo, 386
Parmenides, 261, 608-611, 984
Parsees, 995
Parsva, 925
Parthenon, 634
Parthia; Antiochus and, 66; map, lxxiii; Rome and, 75, 530
Pastoral poetry, Chinese, 843
Pathos aitia therapeia (Diocles), 278
Patriarchs, Buddhist, 130
Patriarchy, mythology and, 415
Patriotism, Roman, 302
Patron saints, 206
Paul, Saint, 6, 437, 458, 611-614, 823
Paul of Tarsus. See Paul, Saint
Paul the Apostle. See Paul, Saint
Paula, 457
Paulinus (secretary to Saint Ambrose), 43
Paulinus, Suetonius, 163
Paulus, Lucius Aemilius, 343, 383, 755
Pausanias of Sparta, 15, 214, 615-617
Pausanias the Traveler, 618-620, 680, 761
Pax Sinica, 960
Peace. See Eirēnē
Peace and Wealth (Kephisodotos), 694
Pelagianism, 143, 864, 947
Pelagius, 864
Pelopidas, 303
Peloponnesian League, 622, 859
Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.), 14, 33, 68, 90, 127, 216, 304, 327, 622, 659, 882, 968
Pelops, 348
Penelope, 429
Penthilus, 653
Perception and meaning, 88
Perdiccas III, 420, 637
Perdiccas (Macedonian general), 63, 598, 720, 763
Peregrinus. See Vincent of Lérins, Saint
Pergamum, Library of, 315
Peri aition kai semeion oxeon kai chronion pathon (Aretaeus), 85
Peri apochēs empsychōn (Porphyry), 688
Peri archaias komoidias (Eratosthenes), 316
Peri archaies ietrikes (Hippocrates), 37, 421
Peri archōn (Origen), 601
Peri automatopoietikes (Hero of Alexandria), 401
Peri biōn dogmatōn kai apophthegmatōn tōn en philosophia eudokiē, 654, 723
Peri chreias morion (Galen), 349
Peri diaireseon biblion (Euclid), 318
Peri diaites oxeon (Hippocratic writers), 421
Peri epideomōn (Diocles), 278
Peri eykhēs (Origen), 601
Peri gunaikeiōn (Diocles), 278
Peri helikon (Archimedes), 82
Peri hippikēs (Xenophon), 969
Peri hypsous (Longinus), 751
Peri konoeideon kai sphaireodeon (Archimedes), 82
Peri ochoymenon (Archimedes), 82
Peri pepeseōs (Diocles), 278
Peri physeōs (Empedocles), 295, 397, 521, 609, 966
Peri phytikōn aitiōn (Theophrastus), 873
Peri phytikōn historiōn (Theophrastus), 873
Peri puretōn (Diocles), 278
Peri puros kai aeros (Diocles), 278
Peri sphairas kai kylindron (Archimedes), 81
Peri sphygmōn (Herophilus), 411
Peri thanasimōn pharmakōn (Diocles), 278
Peri therapeiōn (Diocles), 278
"Peri tōn en Cherronesoi" (Demosthenes), 265
Peri tōn kat iētreion (Diocles), 278
Peri tōn mechanikon theorematon (Archimedes), 82
Peri tou Ioudaikou polemou. See Bellum Judaium
"Peri tou Stephanou" (Demosthenes), 267
Pericles, 33, 52, 127, 215, 564, 620-624, 707, 810
Pericles the Younger, 128
Periegesis Hellados (Pausanias the Traveler), 618
Perikeiromenē (Menander), 548
Peripatetics, 94, 277, 872
Periploi (travel guides), 618
Periplus (Hanno), 385
Persaeus of Citium, 983
Persai (Aeschylus), 8, 137, 633
Persia; Alcibiades and, 34; Alexander the Great and, 39; Caria and, 545; development
of empire, 251; Greece and, 8, 137, 213, 252, 265, 408, 523, 564, 615, 630, 859, 969, 972;
India and, 202; Rome and, 485; Xerxes' rule, 972. See also Geographical Index
Persian Empire; map, lxxii
Persian Wars (499-479 b.c.e.), 109, 137, 407, 505, 630, 794
Persians, The. See Persai
Persika (Ctesias), 744
Peter, Saint, 223, 437, 472, 624-627
Peter of Galatia, 865
Peucestas, 763
Phaedōn (Plato), 12, 94, 963
Phaedra, 327
Phaedri augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum (Phaedrus), 628
Phaedros (Plato), 450
Phaedrus, 13, 628-630
Phaidros. See Phaedrus
Phainomena (Euclid), 318
Phalanx, 638
Pharaohs; Amenhotep III, 45; Menes, 556; Menkaure, 558; Montuhotep II, 570; Psamtik I, 710;
Ramses II, 735; Sesostris III, 771; Thutmose III, 885; Tutankhamen, 908; women as, 388; Zoser, 996
Pharisees, 459, 468; and Saint Paul, 611
Pharmacology; Greek, 278; Roman, 289
Pharsalus, Battle of (48 b.c.e.), 166, 174, 185, 683, 927
Phasa Mikeun, 466
Pheidippides, 630-633
Phidias, 633-636, 675
Philēbos (Plato), 660
Philinus of Cos, 412
Philip II of Macedonia, 39, 265, 597, 637-640, 719, 872
Philip III Arrhidaeus, 719
Philip V of Macedonia, 67, 383
Philippi, Battle of (42 b.c.e.), 74, 146, 167, 186, 431, 527
Philippicae (Cicero), 73
Philippics. See Kata Philippou
Philippides, 631
Philippos (Isocrates), 451
Philistines, 747
Philistion of Locri, 278
Philo of Alexandria, 640-643. See also De Abrahamo; De Decalogo; De Josepho;
De opificis mundi; De praemiis et poenis; De vita Moysis; Quod Deus sit immutabilis
Philoktētēs (Sophocles), 811
Philosophies for Sale. See Bion Prasis
Philosophy; Buddhist, 931; Chinese, 379, 502, 553, 577, 979; Christian, 142, 866;
cosmology and, 295; culture and, 451; divisions of, 982; Eleatic, 610; Judaism and, 641;
knowledge and, 724; medicine and, 36, 84, 421; music and, 97; nature and, 397; paganism and, 668;
poetry and, 610; Pre-Socratic, 856, 965, 985; religion and, 54, 702; rulers and, 659;
science and, 263; Sophism and, 707; theology and, 854; women and, 129. See also Category Index
Philostratus, 482
Phineus (Aeschylus), 8
Phoenicians, 271
Phormio (Terence), 850
Phryne, 695
Phrynichus, 877
Phrynon, 653
Physica (Aristotle), 95
Physiology, 36, 85; Galen on, 349; Greek, 278, 311
Pi, value of, 82
Piankhi. See Piye
Piankhy. See Piye
Picts, 394
Pietà (Michelangelo), 540
Pilate, Pontius, 460, 475, 643-646
Pindar, 646-649, 793
Pisistratus, 221, 649-652, 859
Piso, Gnaeus, 510
Pithon, 763
Pittacus of Mytilene, 652-655, 750
Pixodarus, 719
Piye, 655-658
Plagues; Athens, 622; biblical, 1; Egypt, 28, 573; Rome, 530
Plancina, 510
Planetary motion, theories of, 321
Plants, classification of, 290
Plataea, Battle of (479 b.c.e.), 615, 882
Plataea, Battle of (490 b.c.e.), 794
Plataea, Oath of, 633
Plataicus (Isocrates), 450
Plato, 94, 127, 263, 285, 321, 420, 450, 609, 659-662, 799, 963, 968. See also Nomoi;
Politeia; Phaedōn; Sophistēs
Platonism, 314; Christianity and, 600; Judaism and, 641; Pythagoras and, 725. See also Neoplatonism
Platonists, 263
Plautianus, Fulvius, 481
Plautius, Aulus, 163
Plautus, 549, 662-664, 928. See also Menaechmi; Miles gloriosus
Plays, miracle, 270
Playwrights, prophets and, 877
Pleasure, philosophy of, 69, 88, 309
Pleroma, 918
Pliny the Elder, 385, 523, 665-667
Pliny the Younger, 102-103, 665, 837, 905
Plotina, 370
Plotinus, 142, 435, 642, 668-670, 687, 701
Ploutos (Aristophanes), 93
Plutarch, 12, 231, 631, 670-673. See also Bioi paralleloi; Ethika
Plyaenus, 308
Pneumatica (Hero of Alexandria), 247, 401
Pneumaticism, 84
Pneumatics, 247
Poetic meters; Greek, 415; Latin, 197
Poetics. See De poetica
Poetry; Chinese, 732, 785; epic, 427; genres of, 705; Greek, 750, 965; Latin, 210, 301,
431, 536, 603; music and, 647; philosophy and, 610; politics and, 807; Sanskrit, 130; women and, 298
Poisoning, Roman heirs and, 510
Politeia (Plato), 659-660, 708, 963
Politeia (Zeno of Citium), 981
Politica (Aristotle), 95
Politics; geography and, 828; history and, 674; poetry and, 733, 807
Pollenza, Battle of (402 c.e.), 825
Polybius, 384, 673-675, 756, 827
Polycarp, 443
Polyclitus, 523, 633, 675-678
Polycrates, 324, 725
Polygamy, Egyptian, 585
Polygnotus, 678-680
Polyperchon, 598
Polytheism; paganism and, 4; Persian, 993
Pompeia Paulina, 767
Pompeius Magnus, Gnaeus. See Pompey the Great
Pompeius Strabo, Gnaeus, 188
Pompey the Great, 74, 145, 166, 173, 185, 188, 194, 212, 403, 527, 569, 681-684,
692, 742, 827, 833, 896, 927
Pompey the Younger, 74
Pontius Pilate. See Pilate, Pontius
Pontus, kingdom of, 567
Poppaea Sabina, 235, 477, 592, 685-687
Population decline in Sparta, 14
Poroi (Xenophon), 970
Porphyry, 668, 687-690. See also Aphormai pros ta noēta; Isagoge; Kata Christanōn; Peri apochēs empsychōn
Porphyry of Tyre. See Porphyry
Portraiture, Assyrian, 123
Porus, 202
Posidonius, 690-694
Pothinus, 443
Praeparatio evangelica (Eusebius), 330
Praetorian Guard, 218
"Praise Poem of Ur-Nammu, A" (Ur-Nammu), 914
Praise poetry, 648
Prasutagus, 163
Pratinas, 877
Praxagoras, 410
Praxiteles, 676, 694-697
Prayer, Christian, 601
Precession of the equinoxes, 418
Predestination, 947
Preparation for the Gospel. See Praeparatio evangelica
Pre-Socratic philosophy, 37
Priestesses, 298
Priesthood, Jewish, 749
Principate, Roman, 21, 281
Priscillian, 698-700, 797
Priscillianism, 797
Priscus, Marius, 838
Pro Augustino responsiones ad capitula objectionum Vincentianarum (Prosper of Aquitaine), 948
Pro Caelio (Cicero), 233
Pro Quinctio (Cicero), 210
Pro Roscio Amerino (Cicero), 211
Proarche, 918
Proclus, 701-703, 727
Professor of Public Speaking, A. See Rhētorōn didaskalos
Prognosis, 422
Prognōstikon (Diocles), 278
Prohaeresius, 361
Projective geometry, 79
Prometheus, 415
Prometheus Bound. See Prometheus desmōtēs
Prometheus desmōtēs (Aeschylus), 9
Proof of the Gospel. See Demonstratio evangelica
Propaganda, Roman, 527
Propator, 918
Propertius, Sextus, 432, 528, 704-706
Prophecies; battles and, 615; Christ, 474; Christianity and, 698; disaster and punishment, 453;
Egyptian, 559; Ezekiel, 336; foreign policy and, 448; Hebrew, 446; horoscopes and, 481; Japanese, 465;
Jeremiah, 336, 453; Jewish, 459, 582; oracular, 283; Sammu-ramat and, 746; Samuel, 747;
Saul, 748; schizophrenia and, 336
Prophets; Abraham, 6; Deborah, 259; Isaiah, 446; playwrights and, 877
Pros tas koinas doxas (Herophilus), 412
Proscription, 211
Prose, shift from poetry to, 58
Prosper of Aquitane, 947
Prostitution in Athens, 128
Protagoras, 326, 633, 707-709
Prōtagoras (Plato), 654, 708, 793
Proteus (Aeschylus), 9
Psalms, composition of, 255
Psamtik I, 118, 710-712
Pseudo-Dionysius, 270, 702
Pseudolus (Plautus), 663
Psiammites (Archimedes), 82, 607
Psychology; biography and, 671; history and, 512; sculpture and, 696
Ptah, 556
Ptolemies, 229
Ptolemy I Soter, 63, 105-106, 317, 716, 719-722, 763
Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 106, 157, 247, 715-718, 721
Ptolemy III Euergetes, 157, 315, 717
Ptolemy IV Philopator, 159
Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos (Auletes), 230
Ptolemy XIII, 230
Ptolemy (astronomer), 712-715. See also Apotelesmatika; Mathēmatikē syntaxis
Ptolemy Ceraunus (king of Macedonia), 106, 715
Ptolemy Philadelphus (son of Antony and Cleopatra), 75
Public works, Chinese, 780
Publicola, L. Gellius, 819
Pumayatton, 271
Punic War, First (264-241 b.c.e.), 273, 373, 738, 758
Punic War, Second (218-202 b.c.e.), 82, 190, 273, 301, 342, 382, 542, 812
Punic War, Third (149-146 b.c.e.), 357, 673, 756, 760
Punishment, Hedonistic concept of, 89
Purā; as, 497
Purifications. See Katharmoi
Putidamo. See Bodhidharma
P'u-t'i-ta-mo. See Bodhidharma
Pydna, Battle of (168 b.c.e.), 756
Pyramids; Egyptian, 558; Step, 440, 996
Pyrrhon of Elis, 722-724
Pythagoras (Greek philosopher), 36, 98, 399, 609, 725-728
Pythagoras of Rhegion, 675
Pythagorean brotherhood, 36, 296
Pythagorean theorem, 318, 727
Pytheas, 729-731
Pythius, 546

Q
Qian Han Shu. See Han Shu
Qin Dynasty, 150
Qin state, 379
Qu Yuan, 732-734
Quadrature, 82
Quadrivium, 929
Quaestiones naturales (Seneca), 767
Quintilian, 838
Quintus Caepia Brutus. See Brutus, Marcus Junius
Qumran community, 476
Quod Deus sit immutabilis (Philo), 641
Qur'an, 6
Qustā ibn Lūqā al-Ba'labakkī, 286

R
Ra, 901
Rabbinic assembly, 29
Radagaisus, 825
Raghuvamśa (Kālidāsa), 497
Rāma, 922
Rāmāyana (Vāmīki), 922
Rameses II. See Ramses II
Ramses I, 735
Ramses II, 585, 735-738, 773
Ransom of Hector, The. See Hectoris lytra
Rape, Roman attitudes toward, 517
Rape of the Lock, The (Pope), 180
Rationalism, 407
Rāvana, 923
Realism; Augustine, 142; four elements, 295; vs. nominalism, 688; Parmenides, 610; in sculpture, 524
Reason; Buddhism, 161; Christian thinkers, 863; vs. common sense, 985; vs. faith, 143;
nature of, 261; Plato, 661; Porphyry, 689; Pyrrhon, 724; vs. senses, 295
Rebekah, 6
Rebellions; against Alexander Severus, 485; against Ashurbanipal, 118; against Cambyses II, 136;
against Carthage, 374; Catiline, 189; Cinna, 832; against Darius the Great, 251; Jewish, 944;
against Nero, 593; against Rome, 163, 937; against Sargon of Akkad, 299; against Sparta, 304;
against Tigranes the Great, 897; against Xerxes I, 971. See also Category Index under War and Conquest
Rebirth; Christian, 474; Egyptian beliefs in, 559; Jainism and, 925
Records of the Grand Historian of China. See Shiji
Rectification of Names, 237
Refutation of All Heresies, The. See Kata pasōn haireseōn elenkhos
Regimen. See Diaitētikon
Regulus, 738-741
Reinwen, 395
Relativism, 88
Relics; Buddhist, 900; Saint Helena, 392
Religion; Assyrian, 753; community and, 721; Cyrus the Great and, 250; drama and, 877;
Egyptian, 736; Greco-Roman sycretism, 108; law and, 293; Livy on, 512; medicine and, 421, 440;
philosophy and, 702; Roman, 219, 240, 282, 889; science and, 726; Sumerian, 915; superstition and, 520;
Vandals and, 353. See also Category Index
Reprehensio duodecim capitum seu anathema anathematismorum Cyrilli (Theodoret), 866
Republic. See Politeia
Rerum memoria dignarum (Verrius), 941
Revelation, Book of, 472
Rgya gar chos `byun (Tāranātha; ), 111
Rhetoric; Greek, 451; Roman, 665. See also Technē rhetorikēs
Rhētorōn didaskalos (Lucian), 515
Rhizotomika, Peri lakhanōn (Diocles), 278
Rim-Sin, 376
Ritual, Confucianism on, 237
Roads, Roman, 219
Rock Edicts, 124
Romaika (Dio Cassius), 23, 163, 508
Roman Empire, height of; map, lxviii; late; map, lxix. See also
Geographical Index under Roman Empire
Roman History. See Romaika
Roman Republic. See Geographical Index under Roman Republic
Romance, Roman prose, 515
Romanization, 19, 99, 219
Rome; administration, 371, 485; Armenia and, 870, 895, 906; Carthage and, 191, 342, 373, 382,
542, 738, 813; Celts and, 756; Christianity and, 42, 143, 268, 330, 392, 905; consolidation of Empire, 372;
Constantine and, 242; daily life, 537; division of Empire, 76; Egypt and, 230; Etruscans and, 840;
extent of Empire, 99; fall of Empire, 457; fall of Republic, 212; foundation of Empire, 173;
Germans and, 147, 351; Goths and, 825; government, 21, 281; Greek influence, 671, 755;
Hunnic invasion, 139; Jews and, 477, 644; Judaea and, 404; land tenure, 358; military, 280;
Numidia and, 533; Parthia and, 530; Persia and, 485; Pontus and, 568; religion, 241, 488, 643;
Republic, 67, 187, 195; Republic versus Empire, 146, 167, 172, 683; rise of, 172; sack of, 352;
satire and, 494; social disruptions, 987
Roxana, 720
Rtusamhāra (Kālidāsa), 496
Rufinus, Tyrranius, 456
Rufius Crispinus, 685
Rufus, Marcus Caelius, 234
Rusticus, 269

S
Sacred marriages, 915
Sacred War, First (595-586 b.c.e.), 807
Sacred War, Third (356-346 b.c.e.), 639
Sacrifices; human, 6, 246, 273, 384, 805; Jewish, 748
Sadducees, 459
Sages, Seven. See Seven Sages
Saints. See individual saint's name
Saite Renaissance, 711
Sakas, 499, 776
Śakuntalā. See Abhijñãānaśākuntala
Śākya tribe, 49, 169, 933
Sākyamuni, 899
Salamis, Battle of (480 b.c.e.), 8, 109, 137, 214, 326, 860, 973
Sallust, 188, 742-744. See also Bellum Catilinae; Bellum Iugurthinum
Salome, 404, 475
Salutatio (ritual), 24
Salvianus, 698
Samaññaphala Sutta (Buddhaghosa), 355
Samaritans, 821
Samia (Menander), 548
Sammu-ramat, 744-747
Samothrace, mysteries of, 597
Samsāra, 112, 931
Samsuiluna, 378
Samuel, 747-749
San guo zhi, 183, 950
Sand-Reckoner, The. See Psiammites
Sandrocottus. See Chandragupta Maurya
Sanghamitta, 899
Sanhedrin, 460, 821
Sankhibtawy. See Montuhotep II
Sanmati. See Vardhamāna
Sanskrit literature, 496
Sapor II. See Shāpūr II
Sappho, 11, 750-752
Sarah, 4
Sardanapalus (Byron), 119
Sarduri III, 892
Sargon II, 123, 752-755, 769
Sargon of Akkad, 298, 753, 914
Sāsānian Empire, 774; map, lxxiii
Sataspes, 387
Satire; Horatian, 431; Roman, 513; social, 663
Satires. See Saturae
Satires (Horace), 430
Satraps; function of, 253; government by, 972
Saturae (Ennius), 302
Saturae (Juvenal), 493
Saturae Menippiae (Varro), 928
Satyr (Praxiteles), 695
Satyricon (Petronius), 592
Satyros, 348
Saul (king of Israel), 255, 748
Saul of Tarsus. See Paul, Saint
Saundarśnanda (Aśvaghosa), 130
Scaevola, Quintus Mucius, 210
Scapula, Publius Ostorius, 163
Scholarship; Alexandrian, 434; Buddhist, 130; Chinese, 149; Roman, 217; Sri Lankan, 900.
See also Category Index
Science; Alexandrian, 410; Hellenistic, 579; philosophy and, 263, 856; religion and, 726;
Stoicism and, 691. See also Category Index
Scientific method, 94
Scipio Aemilianus, 357, 673, 755-757
Scipio Africanus, 191, 301, 344, 357, 382, 542, 755, 758-760, 813, 850
Scipio the Younger. See Scipio Aemilianus
Scipionic Circle, 756, 849
Scopas, 546, 761-763, 793
Scorpion (Egyptian king), 557
Scribes; Jewish, 339; women as, 298
Scribonius Largus, 291
Scripts, Chinese, 956
Scriptures, Christian, 134
Sculpture; architecture and, 634; Greek, 523; Hellenistic, 762; psychology and, 696; Sumerian, 366
Scythians, 252, 564
Seasons and calendars, 815
Second Triumvirate, 74, 145, 166, 212, 231, 888, 928. See also First Triumvirate
Secular Hymn, The. See Carmen Saeculare
"Seizure" (Sappho), 751
Sejanus, Lucius Aelius, 176, 628, 643, 890
Seleucids, 65, 157, 896
Seleucus I Nicator, 63, 106, 203, 310, 716, 721, 763-765
Self-Tormentor, The. See Heautontimorumenos
Sempronius Longus, Tiberius, 382
Senate, Roman, 218, 275, 847
Seneca the Elder, 766
Seneca the Younger, 25, 591, 766-768. See also Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione;
De ira libri tres; De providentia; Epistulae morales ad Lucilium; Quaestiones naturales
Senegal River, 386
Senherib. See Sennacherib
Senmut, 388
Sennacherib, 117, 448, 754, 769-771
Sententiae. See Aphormai pros ta noēta
Septimius Florens Tertullianus, Quintus. See Tertullian
Septuagint, 599
Serapis, 721
Serena, 824
Servian Constitution, 848
Servile War, Third (73-71 b.c.e.), 194, 681, 818
Servius Tullius, 841, 846
Sesostris III, 771-774
Seti I, 585, 735
Seven Against Thebes. See Hepta epi Thēbas
Seven Sages, 653, 808, 858
Severus, Flavius Valerius, 282
Severus, Lucius Septimius, 424, 481, 483
Sexism, Roman, 518
Sextus Empiricus, 724
Sexuality; in Greek drama, 92; politics and, 235
Shabaka, 657
Shakespeare, William, 663
Shamanism; Chinese, 732; Japanese, 465
Shang Yang, 380
Shangjun shu (Shang Yang), 380
Shanglin fu (Sima Xinagru), 786
Shangzi. See Shangjun shu
Shāpūr I, 774, 987
Shāpūr II, 774-778
Sheba, Queen of, 805
Shekinah (Holy Spirit), 3
Shen Buhai, 380
Shen Dao, 380
Shen Yue, 844
Shepsekhaf, 560
Sheshbazzar, 339
Shi Huangdi, 779-782
Shield, The. See Aspis
Shiji (Sima Qian), 149, 379, 552, 782, 785, 960, 978
Shisetsu, 596
Shmu'el. See Samuel
Shogi. See Nihon shoki
Shulgi, 376, 915
Sickness, Causes, and Treatment. See Pathos aitia therapeia
Siddhārtha Gautama. See Buddha
Silings, 351
Silius, Gaius, 561
Silk Road, 500, 960
Silla, 466
Silures, 163
Silvester, Saint, 392
Sima Qian, 149, 502, 779, 782-784, 960
Sima Tan, 782, 960
Sima Xiangru, 785-788. See also Da ren fu; Zixu fu
Simeon Stylites, Saint, 789-792
Simeon the Elder. See Simeon Stylites, Saint
Simonides, 793-795
Sin and law, 854
Sin-ahhe-eriba. See Sennacherib
Sinai, Mount, 1
Sin-akhkheeriba. See Sennacherib
Sinsã, 595
Sir Fantasy. See Zixu fu
Siricius, Saint, 796-798
Sisera, 259
Sītā, 923
Śiva, 496
Six Perfections. See Pāramitās
Skepticism, 349, 723
Slavery; Babylonian, 582; Chinese, 959; Germanic, 351; Greek, 11, 15, 70, 284, 308, 616, 808;
Roman, 358, 485, 628, 664, 818, 849, 942
Smenkhare, 28, 588, 902, 908
Smerdis, 136, 251
Social classes; Athenian, 808; Hindu, 500
Social War (356 b.c.e.), 546
Social War (91-87 b.c.e.), 535, 681, 896
Socrates, 12, 33, 53, 69, 87, 91, 128, 238, 262, 524, 609, 659, 799-802, 962, 968, 981
Socrates Scholasticus, 434
Socratic method, 801
Sodom, 4
Sol Invictus, 240
Soldiers, professional, 535
Solomon, 155, 256, 803-806
Solon, 221, 245, 294, 649, 807-809, 876
Sophia, 919
Sophism, 68, 88, 262, 274, 326, 633; Chinese, 577; Plato versus, 661; Protagoras and, 707
Sophist. See Sophistēs
Sophistēs (Plato), 985
Sophistic, Second, 514
Sophocles, 326, 809-812, 877. See also Aias; Oidipous epi Kolōnōi; Oidipous tyrannos; Trachinai
Sophonisba of Numidia, 542, 812-815
Sophronius. See Jerome, Saint
Sorrows. See Tristia
Sortes Vergilianae, 940
Sosigenes, 174, 815-818
Soul; body and, 688; Logos and, 398; philosophy and, 800
Sound and music theory, 97
South America; map, lxi
Spain, 374
Sparta; Alexander the Great and, 39; Antisthenes' admiration of, 69; Argos and, 227;
Athens and, 33, 215, 226, 621, 631, 859, 882, 969; Macedonia and, 637; Persia and, 507;
Thebes and, 227, 304. See also Geographical Index under Greece
Spartacus, 194, 681, 818-821
Spear Bearer. See Doryphorus
Speeches; Livy's use of, 512; Sima Qian's use of, 783
Spendios, 374
Sphēkes (Aristophanes), 12, 91
Spring and Summer Annals. See Chunqiu
Ssu-ma Ch'ien. See Sima Qian
Star catalogs, 418
State and law, 293
Steam engines, 402
Stephen, Saint, 613, 821-824
Stichus (Plautus), 663
Stilicho, Flavius, 352, 824-826
Stilo Praeconinus, 927
Stilpo, 981
Stoa Poecile, 982
Stoicheia (Euclid), 78, 317, 320, 606, 727
Stoicism; Arria the Elder and, 102; Arria the Younger and, 103; Cato the Younger and, 194;
Christianity and, 44, 854; Cynicism and, 981; Eratosthenes and, 314; Judaism and, 641; Livy and, 511;
Marcus Aurelius and, 530; Pneumatism and, 84; Posidonius and, 690; Pyrrhon and, 723;
Seneca the Younger and, 766; Strabo and, 827; Zeno of Citium and, 70
Stoikhei ōsis theologikē (Proclus), 701
Strabo (geographer), 827-830
Strabo, Gnaeus Pompeius. See Pompeius Strabo, Gnaeus
Strato of Lampsacus, 277, 317, 716, 872
Stylites. See Simeon Stylites, Saint
Subjectivism, 708
Śuddhodana, 169
Suebi, 394
Suetonius, 72, 145, 168, 172, 176, 489, 522, 591, 904. See also De grammaticis et
rhetoribus
; De viris illustribus; De vita Caesarum Suevi, 351
Suffering, Buddhism concept of, 170
Suicides; Antonia Minor, 72; Marc Antony, 71, 75, 146; Arbogast, 871; Arria the Elder, 102, 104;
Artemesia I, 110; Brutus, 168; Cambyses, 136; Cassius, 167, 186; Cleomenes I, 227;
Cleopatra VII, 231; Demosthenes, 267; Dido, 272; Empedocles, 297; Eratosthenes, 316;
Hanfeizi, 381; Hannibal, 384; Hu Hao, 781; Isocrates, 451; Jews at Masada, 478; Julia Domna, 482;
Lu Buwei, 780; Lucretia, 517, 846; Macro, 178; Mithridates VI Eupator, 569; Nero, 593;
Pontius Pilate, 645; Porcia, 167; Posthumus, 165; Ptolemy of Cyprus, 195; Qu Yuan, 733; Rāma, 923;
Saul, 255; Seneca the Younger, 767; Sophonisba, 814; Themistocles, 861; Valentinian II, 870;
Varus, 100; Zeno of Citium, 982
Sujin, 462
Sulla, Lucius Cornelius, 172, 188, 210, 359, 533, 568, 681, 830-834, 895
Sulpicia, 834-836
Sulpicius Rufus, Publius, 831
Sumana Samanara, 898
Sumer; map, lxx
Sumeria, 368, 376
Sumerian; translation into Assyrian, 119
Summary of the Great Vehicle, The. See Mahāyānasamgraha
Sunzi Bingfa (Sunzi), 183
Sunzi Luejie (Cao Cao), 183
Suppliant Women, The. See Hiketides (Aeschylus)
Suppliants, The. See Hiketides (Aeschylus)
Surgery; Greek, 86; Roman, 200
Sutras, 50, 170
Sympathy, universal, 702
Symphosius of Astorga, 698
Symposion (Lucian), 514
Symposion (Plato), 129, 514, 660
Symposion (Xenophon), 968
Symptomatology, 86
Synagogē (Pappus), 78, 606
Synesius, 435
Synod of Constantinople (382 c.e.), 913
Synod of Tyre (335 c.e.), 331
Syphax, 542, 813
Syracuse, 33
Syrian War, First (c. 276-271 b.c.e.), 716
Syrian War, Second (c. 260-253 b.c.e.), 717
Syrian War, Fifth (202-200 b.c.e.), 67
Syro-Ephramitic War (735-732 b.c.e.), 893
Syzygies, 918

T
Tabernacles, Feast of, 340
Tacitus, Cornelius, 17, 102-103, 351, 837-840, 890, 904. See also Ab excessu divi Augusti;
De origine et situ Germanorum; De vita Julii Agricolae; Dialogus de oratoribus

Taharqa, 118
Takechi no Sukune, 595
Talmud, 31, 468
Tamils, 934
Tammuz, 915
Ta-mo. See Bodhidharma
Tanagra, Battle of (457 b.c.e.), 621
Tanaquil, 840-843, 846
Tanlin, 160
Tao Qian, 843-845
Tarchna. See Tarquinius Priscus, Lucius; Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius
Tarentum, Battle of (209 b.c.e.), 344
Tārīkh al-rusul wa-al-mulūk (Tabari), 988
Tarquinius, Sextus, 517, 846
Tarquinius Collatinus, Lucius, 517, 846
Tarquinius Priscus, Lucius, 840, 846-849
Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius, 517, 841, 846-849
Tarquins. See Tarquinius Priscus, Lucius; Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius
Tatatara, 464
Taxation; Caligula and, 178; Cao Cao and, 182; Cato and, 192; of Christians, 241;
Cleopatra VII and, 230; Confucius on, 237; Cyrus the Great and, 250; Darius and, 136;
Diocletian and, 281; Huns and, 140; Persia, 252; Roman, 682
Technē rhetorikēs (Aristotle), 452
Tefnakht, 656, 710
Tell el-Amārna, 28
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, 761
Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea, 761
Temple of Athena the Maiden, 634
Temple of Jerusalem, 31, 256, 339, 405, 468, 478, 803
Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, 847
Temples, Egyptian, 47
Ten Commandments, 1, 256, 574
Ten Thousand, March of the. See March of the Ten Thousand
Terence, 549, 757, 849-852. See also Heautontimorumenos; Hecyra
Tertullian, 853-855. See also Ad nationes; De anima
Tetrabiblos. See Apotelesmatika
Tetragonismos ten tou orthogonion konoy tomes (Archimedes), 82
Tetrapla (Origen), 600
Tetrarchy, Diocletian, 239, 281, 391
Teutoburg Forest, Battle of (9 c.e.), 100
Teutons, 533, 831
Thales of Miletus, 55, 57-58, 244, 407, 725, 856-859, 965
Thanchvil. See Tanaquil
Theaetētos (Plato), 660, 799
Theaetetus, 321
Theagenes, 293
Thebes, Egypt; capital, 26, 570
Thebes, Greece; Delian League and, 621; Macedonia and, 637; revolt against Alexander the
Great, 39; Sparta and, 14, 16, 227
Themistocles, 110, 214, 506, 794, 859-862, 973
Theocritus, 939
Theodore of Mopsuestia, 862-865
Theodoret of Cyrrhus, 789, 865-867. See also Eranistes seu Polymorphus; Therapeutica
Theodorus, 89
Theodosius I the Great, 43, 352, 361, 364, 798, 824, 863, 868-872, 913
Theodosius II, 139, 825
Theodosius, Flavius (father of Theodosius I the Great), 868
Theogonia (Hesiod), 413
Theological Orations. See Orationae
Theology; Catholic, 361; Christian, 425, 456; Egyptian, 588; Mesopotamian, 299; Saint Paul, 613
Theōn dialogoi (Lucian), 514
Theophrastus, 94, 97, 277, 310, 872-875. See also Peri phytikōn aitiōn;
Peri phytikōn historiōn; Tōn meta ta physika
Theopompus of Chios, 451
Theorems and proofs, 320
Theosebeia, 363
Theosophy, 920
Therapeutae, 642
Therapeutica (Theodoret), 866
Therapeutika (Herophilus), 412
Theravāda Buddhism. See Buddhism, Theravāda
Thermopylae, Battle of (480 b.c.e.), 506, 615, 794, 860, 973
Thermopylae, Battle of (193 b.c.e.), 191
Thersippus of Erchia, 631
Theseum, 678
Theseus, 214, 327, 678
Thesmophoriazousai (Aristophanes), 92
Thespis, 876-878
Thessalian League, 638
Theurgy, 689, 701
Third Dynasty (Egypt), 439, 996
Thirty Tyrants, 659
Thirty Years' Peace, 622
Thomas, Saint, 878-882
Thrasea Paetus, Publius Clodius, 103
Three Essays on Anger. See De ira libri tres
Three Kingdoms (China), 183
Thucydides, 275, 512, 743, 882-885, 969
Thule, Island of, 730
Thutmes (sculptor), 589
Thutmose I, 388
Thutmose II, 388
Thutmose III, 388, 556, 885-888
Tiberius, 72, 147, 176, 217, 490, 510, 604, 644, 766, 888-891
Tiberius Claudius Nero (husband of Livia), 508
Tibullus, 834
Tigellinus, Ofonius, 591
Tiglath-pileser III, 753, 892-895
Tigran. See Tigranes the Great
Tigranes II. See Tigranes the Great
Tigranes V, 776
Tigranes the Great, 895-897
Timaeos (Plato), 641
Time, concepts of, 56
Tipitaka, 50, 934
Tīrthankara, 925
Tissa, Dēvānampiya, 898-900
Titus, 478, 943
Titus Livius. See Livy
Titus Maccius Plautus. See Plautus
Tiy (Egyptian queen), 27, 46, 901-903
Tiy (Nefertiti's mother), 587
To Delos. See In Delum
To My Mother Helvia, on Consolation. See Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione
To Philip. See Philippos
To the Nations. See Ad nationes
Tomyris, 249
Tōn eis heauton (Marcus Aurelius), 531
Tōn meta ta physika (Theophrastus), 874
Torah, 2, 468
Trachinai (Sophocles), 810
Trade routes; Central Asian, 500; Greek, 564; Mesopotamian, 367
Tragedy, Greek, 326, 811
Trajan, 370, 437, 903-907
Transmigration of souls, 296, 356, 725
Transportation of Roman army, 219
Travel, perils of, 207
Travel writing; Chinese, 345; Greek, 618, 729
Travels of Fa-hsien, The. See Faxian Zhuan
Treaties. See names of individual treaties
Treatise of Laws, A. See Therapeutica
Treatise on the Conics of Apollonius (Hypatia), 435
Treatise on the Good. See Arthaśāstra
Trials, Roman, 211
Triangulation, 325
Trigonometry, 419, 713
Trimśikā (Vasubandhu), 932
Trinitarian controversy, 912
Trinity, 854
Triremes, 214
Tristia (Ovid), 491, 604
Triumvirates. See First Triumvirate, Second Triumvirate
Trivium, 929
Trōiades (Euripides), 327
Trojan War, 427; drama and, 327; Roman views on, 301
Trojan Women, The. See Tr ōiades
True Cross, 392
True History, A. See Alēthon Diēgēmaton
Ts'ao Ts'ao. See Cao Cao
Tullia, 841, 846
Tullius Cicero, Marcus. See Cicero
Turks, 499
Turpio, Lucius Ambivius, 850
Tushratta, 902
Tutankhamen, 28, 908-910
Twenty-fifth Dynasty (Egypt), 658
Twin Menaechmi, The. See Menaechmi
Two Ways of Entrance, The. See Er jing ru
Tyrannio, 827
Tyranny, 649, 653
Tyre; Alexander the Great and, 40; maritime empire, 373

U
Ulfilas, 911-914
Ulpian, 484
Ulpius Trajanus, Marcus. See Trajan
Ur; Abraham and, 4; Enheduanna, 299
Urartu, 892
Urban planning in Assyria, 122
Uriah, 155, 256
Ur-Nammu, 368, 914-917
Ursinus, 796
Utilitarianism, Mohist, 577
Utnapishtim, 914
Uttiya, 900
Utus, Battle of (447 c.e.), 140
Uzziah, 447

V
Valens, 363, 776, 825, 868, 911
Valentinian I, 868
Valentinian II, 869
Valentinian III, 140, 353
Valentinus, 918-921
Valerian, 269, 774, 987
Valerius Martialis, Marcus. See Martial
Valley of the Kings, 26, 48, 389
Vālmīki, 922-924
Vandals, 351, 824
Varazdat, 777
Vardhamāna, 355, 924-926
Varinius, Publius, 819
Varro, Gaius Terentius, 343, 383
Varro, Marcus Terentius, 663, 927-930. See also De lingua Latina; De
re rustica
; Imagines; Saturae Menippiae
Varus, Publius Quinctilius, 100, 147
Vasubandhu, 111, 930-933
Vattagamani, 169, 933-935
Vāyū Purāna, 551
Vedic legends, 497
Vegetarianism and Jainism, 926
Venus, 172, 272, 521
Vercingetorix, 173, 935-938
Vergil, 196, 301, 431, 521, 528, 602, 938-941. See also Aeneid; Eclogues; Georgics
Vernaculars and Christianity, 912
Verrius Flaccus, Marcus, 941-943
Verus, Lucius Aurelius, 530
Vespasian, 470, 477, 943-946
Vestal Virgins, 188
Vesuvius, Mount, 666
Vice, Juvenalian, 493
Victor I, 425, 444
Vijñānavāda Buddhism. See Buddhism, Yogācara
Vikramāditya I, 496
Vikramorvaśiya (Kālidāsa), 497
Vima Kadphises I, 499
Vincent of Lérins, Saint, 947-949
Vincentian canon, 948
Virgil. See Vergil
Virtue; Confucianism on, 236; knowledge and, 800; philosophy and, 283; pleasure and, 88
Virtues; Neoplatonism and, 688
Visigoths, 352, 868, 911
Visions, Christian, 240, 789
Vita Constantini (Eusebius of Caesarea), 240, 331, 391
Vita S. Antonii (Athanasius), 62, 134
Vitae (saints' lives), 205
Vitellius, 645
Vitruvius, 81, 247
Void, the, 261
Volcanoes, 828
Vortigern, 394
Vortimer, 395
Vramshapuh, 777
Vulgate, 457
Vulso Longus, L. Malius, 739

W
Wales, 17
Wang Bi, 950-952
Wang Chong, 950, 953-955
Wang Ch'ung. See Wang Chong
Wang Chung-jen. See Wang Chong
Wang Wei, 844
Wang Xizhi, 955-958, 975
Wang Zhongren. See Wang Chong
Wani, 595
War. See Category Index
War machines, engineering of, 83
War of Jugurtha, The. See Bellum Iugurthinum
Warfare; Aristophanes on, 90; Mozi on, 577. See also names of
individual wars and battles
; Category Index
Warring States period (475-221 b.c.e.), 182, 379, 504, 577, 732, 779, 989; map, lxxv
Wasps, The. See Sphēkes
Water, Thales on, 856
Wine as medicine, 116
Wisdom literature, Hebrew, 446
Witches, 749
Woden, 396
Women, status of; Assyria, 745; Babylonia, 378; China, 153; Christianity, 393, 822;
Egypt, 390, 586, 589, 902; Etruscan, 841; Greece, 70, 110, 127, 308, 415, 597, 751, 962;
India, 111; Japan, 594; Jews, 258; Palmyra, 987; Persia, 137; Phoenicia, 271; Rome, 25, 72, 103, 105,
233-234, 481, 488, 490, 494, 508, 517, 561, 687, 834
Women of Trachis, The. See Trachinai
Works and Days. See Erga kai Emerai
World, ancient, map, lviii
Writing, Japanese, 462, 595
Wudi, 150, 160, 782, 958-961, 976
Wulfila. See Ulfilas
Wusun (Asian tribe), 959
Wu-ti. See Wudi
Wuwei (Daoist doctrine), 990

X
Xandramas. See Dhanananda
Xanthippe, 962-964
Xanthippus of Athens, 128
Xanthippus of Sparta, 740
Xenarchus, 827
Xenocrates, 94
Xenophanes, 608, 965-967
Xenophilus, 97
Xenophon, 451, 962, 968-971. See also Apologia Sōcratous; Apomnēmoneumata;
Ellēnika; Hipparchikos; Kynēgetikos; Kyrou anabasis;
Kyrou paideia; Logos eis Agēsilaon Basilea; Peri hippikēs; Poroi
Xerxes I, 109, 137, 213, 253, 387, 505, 616, 860, 971-975
Xiang Xiu, 991
Xie Hun, 975
Xie Kanglo. See Xie Lingyun
Xie Lingyun, 975-978
Xin Dynasty, 150
Xiongnu, 151, 499, 780, 958
Xuanxue, 951
Xuanzang, 124
Xunzi, 238, 380, 978-980

Y
Yahweh, 1, 4, 255, 258, 337, 641
Yangzhu, 578
Yaśodharā, 169
Yavneh, rabbinic assembly at, 29
Yayoi period, 462
Yehime, 595
Yellow Turbans Uprising (184 c.e.), 182
Yijing, 950, 989
Yogācāra-bhūmi-shāstra, 113
Yuezhi, 499, 959

Z
Zabdas, 988
Zakar-baal, 271
Zama, Battle of (202 b.c.e.), 344, 384, 543, 759
Ze Lan, 732
Zealots, 459, 469
Zedekiah, 336, 453, 582
Zeno of Citium, 70, 314, 690, 981-984
Zeno of Elea, 610, 984-986
Zeno the Stoic. See Zeno of Citium
Zenobia, 986-989
Zephyrinus, 424
Zerubbabel, 339
Zeus, 635
Zhang Qian, 959
Zhao Gao, 781
Zhengwu (Wang Chong), 953
Zheyan, 345
Zhou Dynasty, 236, 379, 502
Zhuangzi, 989-992
Zhuangzi (Zhuangzi), 503, 950, 989
Zhuo Wangsun, 786
Zhuo Wenjun, 786
Zichu, 779
Zimri-Lim, 376
Zipporah, 573
Ziqqurats, 122, 914
Zixu fu (Sima Xiangru), 785
Zoroaster, 992-995
Zoroastrianism, 252, 774, 992
Zoser, 439, 996-998
Zosher. See Zoser


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