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INDEX
Abydus, naval victory at (406), 413
Acarnanians, 22
Achaea, 31
Acharnae (deme), 340
Acharnians (Aristophanes), 310, 311, 312
Acropolis, 111, 135;
building construction, 109, 110
Adeimantos, 11
Adrastus, 53
Aegean, Theban foreign policy, 443–45
Aegina, 141, 185, 186, 309
Aegospotamoi, battle of (400), 253, 284, 397, 415, 418, 428
Aeschines, 444, 458, 462
Aeschylus, 147, 148, 151, 162
Agasicles, 77
age of tyranny (c.650–510), 40–54
Agesilaos (Spartan king):
campaigns of, 8, 26, 29;
literary sources, 5, 24, 25, 28;
and rise of Thebes, 432, 435;
and Spartan foreign policy, 418, 422
Agiads, families of, 66
Agis II, King of Sparta:
Decelea, 364–65, 384, 397, 400;
rebuffs oligarchy’soffers 407–8;
and the Peloponnese, 360–61
Agis IV, King of Sparta: 59, 73–74
see also ‘third century revolution’
agogimoi (group of Athenians), 91
Agora (civic centre of Athens), 110, 111
agroikoi (farmers), 99
aitai (grounds of complaint), 299, 302–13
Alcaeus of Mytilene, 41
Alcibiades, 134, 358;
advice to Spartans, 362–63, 388;
advice to Tissaphernes, 389;
blame for Sicilian failure, 383;
challenge to Sparta’s hegemony, 358, 359;
condemned to death in absence, 362, 373, 375;
Cyzicus, battle of, 392;
fails in Persian alliance, 390, 405;
first appearance in Athenian politics, 358;
hopes to return to Athens, 390, 403;
military ability, 382;
and the mutilation of the Hermae, 362, 371;
and oligarchic movement, 405, 407, 410, 413;
retires in disgrace, 395;
sent to Sicily, 371;
and Sicily,
Athenian policy, 370–71, 373, 383;
splits the Four Hundred with compromise, 410;
use of diplomacy, 372, 373;
use of ostracism, 321
Alcidas, 203
Alcmaenids (aristocratic family), 80, 98, 136;
and Cleisthenes’ reforms, 115–16, 121;
and rule of the Peisistratids, 104, 105–6, 116
Alcman (poet), 55, 56
Aleuadae of Larissa, 153–54
Alexander II, of Macedon, 441, 442
Alexander III (Alexander the Great):
army see army of Alexander the Great;
and Darius III, 477, 487–89, 492, 495;
Gaugamela, battle of (326), 488–95;
Granicus (River), battle of (329), 477–82;
Issus, battle of (328), 482–88;
literary sources, 2, 5, 17, 472–73
Alexander of Macedon (Persian War), 154
Alexander of Pherae, 441–42, 443, 445
Al Mina, trading posts in, 35, 36, 48
Amanus mountains, 482, 484, 485
Ambracia, 38
Amorges, 23
Amphictyonic Congress, 213
Amphictyonic Council, 466
Amphictyonic League, 455, 458, 460, 465
Amphipolis (city in Thrace), 359, 386;
and Archidamian War, 348, 352;
literary sources, 18, 20, 22;
and Philip II, 453, 463
Amyclai village, 61
Anabasis (Arrian), 464, 467, 472, 473, 475, 478, 480, 481, 484, 485, 487, 489, 492, 493, 495
Anabasis (Xenophon), 24, 25, 250, 283, 394, 415
Anactorium, 38, 356
anakrisis (preliminary inquiry), 260
Anaxagoras, 329
Anaxandridas, reign, 78
Anaxibios, 427
Anaximenes, 474
Androcles, 401
Andros, island of, 179, 180
Androtion, 3, 117, 133
Antalcidas, 426, 428;
see also Peace of Antalcidas (King’s Peace 387/1)
anti-democratic movement, 402
Antiochis (tribe), 127
Antiphon, 408, 409
Antiochus, 485
apoikia (colony), 31
Apollo, priestess of, 34
Apollodorus, 8
Apollonia, 38
Apollo Patroos, 110
Arcadian League, 29, 230;
and Thebes, 437, 439, 440, 444–46
Acharnians (Aristophanes) 310, 311, 312
archeology, 33
Archias, 32
Archidamian War (431–421), 19, 23, 282
from 431 to 423, 341–43;
from 427 to 419, 343–48;
from 424/3 to 416, 348–52;
Athenian strategy, 337–39;
ending with Peace of Nicias, 331, 352;
inscriptions, 180;
invasions, nature of, 384;
outbreak of, 362;
Spartan strategy, 339–41
Archidamus (Spartan king), 21, 224, 314;
and Archidamian War, 341, 343;
opposed immediate war, 67, 224, 314, 318, 320, 340;
and Persia, 385
archons (public officials), 92, 102, 105;
and Cleisthenes, 128, 129, 131;
dokimasia of, 240;
and Ephialtes, 237, 240, 243, 258;
no longer directly elected, 144;
opened to middle-class, 245;
and Solon, 92–93, 99
see also basileus (king-archon);
eponymous archon (chief archon);
polemarch Areopagus (aristocratic council), 94, 106, 119, 237;
and Cleisthenes, 128–29, 131;
and Ephialtes, 220, 237–39, 240–42, 243, 244;
literary sources, 2, 13;
membership of, 89, 92–93, 102, 118;
religious powers, 239;
secular powers, 239–42
Arginusae, battle of (401), 28, 396
Argives/Argive army, 46, 437;
and Spartan hegemony, 357, 359, 360
Argolid, 361
Argos, 12, 52, 53, 108, 267;
and Corinth, 426, 428–29;
and Sparta, 55, 77–79, 229–30, 231;
see also Pheidon of Argos Aristagoras, 12, 139
Aristides, 145, 177;
Delian League, 173, 174, 177;
opposition to Themistocles, 145, 212, 215–16;
ostracism, 134, 145
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