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by Thomas Cahill

Hesperus

  hetairai, 3.1

  hieroglyphs, 2.1, 2.2

  Hieron I, King of Syracuse

  hippeis, 4.1

  Hippocrates

  Hippolytus (Euripides), 6.1

  Hiroshima bombing

  history

  ancient precedents in, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2

  fragmentation of

  as genre

  of warfare, 1.1, 5.1

  History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides), 7.1, 7.2

  homecomings

  Homer, epi.1, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  homo naturaliter Christianus, 5.1, 5.2

  homosexuality, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

  honor, 1.1, 3.1

  Honorius, Roman Emperor of the West

  hope

  hoplites, 1.1, 5.1

  Horace

  House of Atreus, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

  How the Irish Saved Civilization (Cahill), 5.1, 7.1

  hubris, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1

  human sacrifice

  humiliation, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  humor, 3.1, 5.1

  Icarus

  idealism, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

  Idomeneo (Mozart), 1.1

  Idomeneus

  Iliad (Homer), itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1

  immortality, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1

  immutability, 5.1, 5.2

  impiety

  Indian temple sculpture

  individualism, 2.1, 4.1

  Indo-European languages, itr.1, 1.1, 7.1

  inscriptions, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1

  Ionian mode

  Iphigenia, 4.1, 4.2

  Iphigenia in Tauris (Euripides), 4.1

  Irish culture, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2

  Ischia, 2.1, 2.2

  Islam

  Ithaca, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1

  “Ithaca” (Cavafy)

  Jason, 4.1, 4.2

  jealousy

  Jesuits, itr.1, 3.1

  Jesus Christ, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  Jocasta, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 7.1, 7.2

  John of the Cross

  Johnson, Samuel

  John the Baptist

  John the Evangelist, Saint

  Joyce, James, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2

  Judaism, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  Judeo-Christian tradition, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1

  Judgment of Paris, 1.1, 1.2

  Juno

  Jupiter, 7.1, 7.2

  justice, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  Justinian I, Roman Emperor of the East

  Kaplan, Robert D.

  Keats, John, 6.1, 6.2

  Kennedy, John F., 7.1, 7.2

  King, Stephen

  kosmos, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  kouroi, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1

  “Kritian boy” (Greek sculpture), 6.1, 6.2

  labor, manual

  Labyrinth

  Laius, 4.1, 4.2

  Laocoön

  Lapatin, Kenneth

  Latin, itr.1, 1.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2

  Lattimore, Richmond

  Laurion silver mines

  Laws (Plato), 5.1

  Leda

  legal system, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1

  Lenaia, 5.1, 5.2

  Lesbos, 3.1, 5.1

  Leucippus

  Levant

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lincoln Memorial

  Linear A script, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1

  Linear B script, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1

  literacy, 2.1, 3.1

  literature, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1

  liturgy, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

  logic

  Logos, 7.1

  love, nature of

  Lovelace, Richard

  “Love of Ares and Aphrodite Crowned with Flowers, The” (Odyssey), 2.1

  Lyceum

  Lydian mode

  lyres, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1

  lyric poetry

  Lysippus, 6.1, 6.2

  Lysistrata (Aristophanes), 5.1, 6.1

  Macbeth (Shakespeare), 1.1

  McCourt, Frank

  Macedonians, 6.1, 6.2

  Malory, Thomas

  “Man’s a Man for A’ That, A” (Burns)

  manuscripts, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

  Marathon, battle of, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1

  Marlowe, Christopher

  marriage, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 7.1

  Mars

  Marsyas

  mathematics, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1

  Medea (Euripides), 4.1, 6.1

  medicine

  medieval art, 6.1, 6.2

  medieval drama, 4.1, 4.2

  Melos

  Melpomene

  Mencius

  Menelaus, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Mercury

  Mesopotamia, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1

  Metamorphoses (Ovid), itr.1

  metaphors

  metempsychōsis, 5.1, 5.2

  metics, 4.1, 7.1

  Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Michelangelo

  mimes

  Minerva

  Minoans, itr.1, itr.2

  Minos, itr.1, 6.1

  Minotaur

  mirrors, 6.1, 6.2

  Mixolydian mode

  moderation, 5.1, 5.2

  modes, musical

  monarchy

  monasticism, 5.1, 7.1

  monotheism, 7.1, 7.2

  monumental buildings

  morality, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2

  Morte d’Arthur, Le (Malory), 6.1

  mosaics, 3.1, 6.1

  Moses, 2.1, 2.2

  Mother of Sorrows (Christian)

  Mount Olympus

  Mount Parnassus

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  Muses, 3.1, 3.2

  music, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1

  Music of the Spheres

  Mycenae, itr.1, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Mycenaeans, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Mysteries (in Greek religion), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  Mysteries of the Snake Goddess (Lapatin), itr.1

  mythology, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 7.1

  Nagasaki bombing

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

  Nausicaa

  Nero, Emperor of Rome

  New Testament, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

  Nicholson, Jack

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  Niobe

  nouns

  nous, 5.1

  novenas

  nudity, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1

  nymphs, 6.1, 6.2

  Odysseus, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  Odyssey (Homer), itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1

  Oedipus, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

  Oedipus at Colonnus (Sophocles), 3.1

  Oedipus complex

  Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), 4.1, 5.1, 7.1

  Olympian gods, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

  Olympics

  omens

  On Cheerfulness (Democritus), 5.1

  O’Neill, Eugene

  oracles, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1

  oral traditions, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1

  orchestra, 4.1

  Oresteia (Aeschylus), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  Orestes, 4.1, 4.2

  Orestes (Euripides), 4.1

  ostracism

  Ovid, itr.1, 6.1

  Pan

  Pandarus

  Panhellenic festivals

  papyrus

  Paris (prince of Troy), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 4.1

  Parmenides, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  Parthenon, itr.1, 4.1, 6.1

  parthenos, 6.1

  Patroclus
, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1

  Patton, George S.

  Paul, Saint

  Pausanias

  pederasty, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1

  Peleus

  Peloponnesian War, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  Penelope, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1

  pentakosiomedimnoi, 4.1

  Pentheus, 4.1, 4.2

  Pergamon

  Pericles, 5.1, 7.1

  Persephone, itr.1, 7.1, 7.2

  Persia, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2

  Persian Wars, 5.1, 5.2

  Phaedo (Plato), 5.1

  Phaedra, 6.1, 6.2

  Phaedrus, 5.1, 5.2

  phalanx

  phalloi, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1

  Phèdre (Racine), 6.1

  Phidias, 4.1, 7.1

  Phidippides

  Philip II, King of Macedonia, 6.1, 6.2

  philosopher-kings

  philosophy, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

  Philostratus

  phobos, 4.1

  Phoenicians, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2

  Phrygian mode

  Physics and Reality (Einstein), 5.1

  pictographs, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1

  Pindar, 3.1, 5.1

  Piraeus

  Pisistratus

  Plato, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6

  Platonic love

  Platonists, 5.1, 7.1

  Plato’s Cave, 5.1, 5.2

  Plutarch

  Pluto

  Pnyx

  Poetics (Aristotle), 4.1

  poetry, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1

  Polemarchus, 5.1, 5.2

  polis, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

  politics

  compromise in, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2

  in drama, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1

  factional, 4.1, 5.1

  literacy and, 2.1, 2.2

  of warfare, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1

  See also democracy

  Polyhymnia

  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 6.1

  portraits

  Poseidon, 2.1, 6.1

  pottery, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

  Powell, Colin

  Praxiteles, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

  prayer, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 7.1

  Presocratics, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1

  Priam, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1

  procreation

  prognostication, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1

  property ownership

  proportions, architectural

  prose, 5.1, 5.2

  Psyche

  psyche (soul), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2

  Pygmies

  Pythagoras, 5.1, 5.2

  Pythagoreans, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  Pythagorean theorem

  Racine, Jean

  racism, 1.1, 6.1, 7.1

  rage, 1.1, 1.2

  Raphael

  rap music

  realism, 4.1, 6.1

  religion, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  Rembrandt

  Renaissance, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1

  Republic (Plato), 5.1, 5.2

  rhapsodes, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2

  rhymes, 5.1, 6.1

  Roman civilization, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Ruskin, John

  Sacred Way

  “Sailing to Byzantium” (Yeats)

  Salinger, J. D.

  Samurai

  Santorini

  Sappho, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  satyrs, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5

  Schain, Richard

  Schliemann, Heinrich, itr.1, 1.1

  School of Athens, The (Raphael), 5.1

  science, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

  Scott, George C.

  scribes, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  sculpture, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1

  Scylla

  Scythians

  Secular City, The (Cox), 7.1

  Semitic languages

  Serabit el-Khadim mines

  serfs, 4.1, 4.2

  Seuss, Dr.

  Seven Sages

  shaft graves

  Shakespeare, William, 1.1, 6.1

  Shining, The (King), 6.1

  Sicilian Expedition

  Simonides, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  sins, 4.1, 7.1

  Sirens, 2.1, 2.2

  Skeptics

  slavery, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1

  Slavs

  Socrates, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

  Solon, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1

  Song of Songs

  Sophists

  Sophocles, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1

  Sosos

  Soviet Union

  space probes

  Sparta, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  Sphinx, 4.1, 4.2

  Stewart, Andrew

  stoa, 6.1

  Stoics, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  Storace, Patricia

  Straits of Messina

  stratēgos, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1

  Strauss, Richard

  “Strife Between Odysseus and Achilles, The” (Odyssey), 2.1

  substance, eternal, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1

  suppliants, 1.1, 2.1

  Swift, Jonathan, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1

  syllogisms

  symposia, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2

  Symposium (Plato), 5.1

  Syracuse

  Taplin, Oliver

  taxation

  Teiresias, 2.1, 2.2

  Telemachus, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 6.1

  Telesterion

  temples

  Ten Commandments

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1

  Teresa of Ávila

  Terpsichore

  terrorism

  Thales, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1

  Thalia

  theaters, 4.1, 6.1

  theatron, 4.1, 4.2

  Thebes, 4.1, 6.1

  Theodosius I, Emperor of Rome

  Theognis

  Theogony (Hesiod), 3.1

  theology, 5.1, 7.1

  Thera

  Thermopylae, battle of

  Theseus, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

  Thespis

  thetes, 4.1, 4.2

  Thetis, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1

  Thrasymachus

  Thucydides, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  Thyestes

  Titans, 1.1, 2.1

  to hellenikon, 5.1, 6.1

  Torah, 2.1, 2.2

  torture

  tragedy, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  tribal societies, 1.1, 2.1

  Trojan Horse, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1

  Trojan War, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1

  Troy, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2

  Turner, Kathleen

  tympanums

  tyrannos, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1

  Ulysses (Joyce), 2.1

  “Ulysses” (Tennyson), 2.1, 3.1

  uncertainty principle

  United Nations

  unities, dramatic

  universe, nature of

  Unswept Hall, The (Sosos), 3.1

  Upanishads

  Urania

  urbanization

  utopias, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1

  Vatican

  vengeance, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

  Venus, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  verbs

  Vikings

  Virgil, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

  Visigoths

  vocabulary

  votive offerings

  vowels

  Vulcan

  Wagner, Richard

  “Wanderer, The” (Auden)

  warfare, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 5.1

  Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (Kaplan), 1.1

  Waterfield, Robin

  Way of the Cross

  wealth, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1

  Weil, Simone


  Western civilization

  artistic traditions of, 6.1, 6.2

  military conquest by

  philosophy in

  Whitehead, Alfred North

  wine, 3.1, 3.2

  women

  artistic representations of, 6.1, 6.2

  in drama, 4.1, 4.2

  sexuality of, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  social position of, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

  Women of Bacchus (Euripides), 4.1

  Woolf, Virginia

  Works and Days (Hesiod), 3.1

  World War II

  writing, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1

  Xanthippe

  Xenophanes, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  Xenophon, 1.1, 2.1

  Yeats, William Butler, epi.1, itr.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1

  zeugitae, 4.1

  Zeus, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

  SPACES SACRED AND PROFANE

  1 The trireme, so called because on each side of the ship were three banks of oars, enabling the craft to be highly maneuverable and to travel at lightning speeds. The bow was very strong and used for ramming other ships. Each trireme had a crew of 200, 170 of whom were oarsmen, the rest soldiers, archers, and sailors. Triremes were first built at Corinth in the late seventh century B.C. By the time of the Peloponnesian War, Athens owned 300. This trireme is a modern replica, but based on exacting research. (photo credit 1.1)

  2 The temple of Poseidon at Paestum, Italy, is imposing but thick and a little crude when compared with more noble examples. (photo credit 1.2 )

  3 The graceful Parthenon, temple to the Virgin (Athena), on the Athenian Acropolis (photo credit 1.3)

  4 The temple of Fortuna Virilis at Rome, a fine example of a smaller temple inspired by Greek originals and inspiring architecture of later ages, such as the public monuments of Washington, D.C. (photo credit 1.4)

  5 Early-fifth-century B.C. fragments from the tympanum of the temple of Zeus at Olympia. The tympanum was an elongated triangular panel on the front of a temple, framed by the horizontal cornice above the pillars and the two sides of the slanting roof. One can still trace above the figures the line of the left side of the roof, slanting upward (from lower left to upper right) toward the roof’s apex. It was a challenge for the artist to devise a scene that would occupy this squished space. From the left, a hero of the Lapith tribe struggles with a centaur, symbol of animality, who is attempting to carry off Hippodamia, queen of the Lapiths. (photo credit 1.5)

  6 A model of the Athenian Acropolis in the classical period (photo credit 1.6)

  7 The theater at Epidaurus, its semicircular seating built, as was customary, into a stepped hillside (photo credit 1.7)

 

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