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INDEX
Academy, Plato’s, 99, 269
Acanthus, 46, 47, 91
Achaean War, 276
Achaeus, 252
Achilles, 184, 272
Adea. See Eurydice (Adea)
Adoulis, inscription at, 244–45
Aegae: and Argead dynasty, seat of, 28; and tomb, hunting painting on, 50; and Philip, death of, 141–42; and Philip, invasion of, 68–69; and pre-Philip Macedonia, 79
Aelius Aristides, 282, 296
Aeolus, 21
Aeropus, 29
Aeschines, 53–54, 99, 296
Aetolia, 191, 194, 214
Aetolian League, 250
Agatharchides, 296
Agathocles, 238, 257
agema, 116, 121
Agesilaus, 55, 56
Agis, 68, 69, 85
Agis III, 159
Agis of Argos, 184
agoge, 58
agora, 25, 98, 261, 264
agoranomoi, 265
Ai Khanoum, 179, 192
Albanians, and Macedonia, 17
Alcetas, 28, 190, 194–97, 199–202
Aleuadae, 43, 48, 49, 56–57, 93–94
Alexander (son of Cassander), 237–38
Alexander I, 22, 23, 27, 28, 33, 39
Alexander II, 30, 56–60
Alexander III (the Great): and Achilles, 184; and administration, 176–77; and Alexandropolis, 86; and Amazons, 183–84; and aristocracy, 144; and Aristotle, 52; and arrow wound, 166; and Asian marriages, 168; and assassination plot, 171–72; and Attalus, toast of, 144; and Bactria, 161, 163; and Balkans, 147; and Barsine, 171; and Bessus, 161, 163; and cities, founding of, 178–79; conquests of, 148–70; and crimes of, 162; and cultural fusion, 174; and Darius, family of, 170; death of, 169–70; and drinking, 171; and Egypt, 149, 155; finances of, 150; fiscal system of, 177; funeral procession of, 195; as god, 184, 185f15; and “Great,” 175–82; Hellespont, crossing of, 184; and helmet, 152; and Hydaspes, Battle of, 163–65, 164f14; and Issus, Battle of, 153–54, 153f13; legend of, 182–85; and Maedi, 86; and the Makran, 167; and Malli, 165–66; and mutiny, 165; and offspring, 186; and Opis, 25; and Persepolis, 160; and Persian fleet, 155; personality and ideas of, 170–75; and Philip, military tactics of, 137; and Philip, relationship with, 143–45; and pike phalanx, 112; and Pixodarus, 145; and Protesilaus, 184; and Roxane, 163; rulership abilities of, 179–81; and second mutiny, 168; sexuality of, 173; as soldier, 179–80; succession of, 142–48; temper of, 144–45; and Thebes, 147; and Tyre, 155
Alexander IV, 190; death of, 226; and Cassander, 214; and Peace of the Dynasts, 225
“Alexander Mosaic,” 122
“Alexander Sarcophagus,” 122
Alexander of Abounoteichus, 283
Alexander Romance (Callisthenes), 182, 274
Alexandria, 178, 216; library of, 269–73, 289
algebra, 291
Amadocus, 86–88
Amazons, 183–84
Amphictyonic Council, 100, 101
Amphictyonic League, 94
Amphipolis: and Amyntas, 46, 48; and Athenians, 48, 53, 61, 65, 68, 98, 99; and cavalry, 118; inscription of, on military, 256; and Olynthian League, 46; and Perdiccas, 61, 65; and Philip, 87, 89, 69, 79; and siege technology, 128
amphodarchai, 265
‘Amr ibn al-’As, 287–90
Amyntas (son of Alexander I), 28
Amyntas I, and Hippias, (510), 22
Amyntas II, “the little,” 29, 31, 73
Amyntas III, 29–30; cavalry of, 117; death of, 53, 56; and Derdas, 73; and Illyrians, 67; and Olynthus, 90; and phalanx, 105; reign of, 42–49
Amyntas IV (son of Perdiccas/Philip’s nephew), 63, 75, 146–47
Anabasis (Arrian), 282
Anaximenes of Lampsacus, 104–6, 116, 149
andreia, 50
Antigenes: death of, 212; and Eumenes, 205; and Settlement of Triparadeisus, 200; and Silver Shields, 200; and War of the Diadochi, first, 196
Antigoneia (Antioch), 216–19, 220, 231, 258, 274
Antigonid dynasty, 53, 241
Antigonus I Monophthalmus (the One-Eyed), 34, 52–53, 129, 131, 201f16; as administrator, 215; and Alcetas, 201–2; and Alexander Sarcophagus, 122; and Asia Minor, 152, 154, 187; and Athens, liberation of, 217; and Babylon, Settlement of, 187, 190, 191; and Cassander, 228–29; and cities, 179; and colonization program, 215–21; and Copratas, 208; death of, 236; and Diadochi, first War of, the, 196–99; and Diadochi, second War of, the, 202–15; and Egypt, invasion of, 232; and Gabiene, Battle of, 211–12; and Ipsus, battle of, 235–37; as king, 231; and Lysimachus, 234; and Orcynia, 200–1; and pantodapoi, 175; and Paraetacene, battle of, 208–10; and Perdiccas, 195; and Phoenicia and Palestine, 222, 225; and Rhodes, 232–33; and Silver Shields, 114; and succession wars to 301, 221–37; and Triparadeisus, Settlement of, 198–202; and Tyre, Proclamation of, 223
Antigonus II Gonatas, 19f2, 239–41, 215, 255
Antigonus
III Doson, 249, 255
Antimachus, 19f1
Antioch. See Antigoneia
Antiochus (king of Orestis), 73
Antiochus (son of Seleucus): and colonization, 179, 220; and Ipsus, Battle of, 235–37; as ruler, 255; and Stratonice, 238
Antiochus III the Great (“Megas”), 252–54, 253f22; army of, 259–60; and Daphne, festival of, 258–59; and library at Antioch, 274; and Magnesia, Battle of, 249, 254, 255, 259; and Palestine, invasion of, 257–58; and Romans, 249, 254
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 254, 255, 260
Antiochus IX, 244
Antipater: and Alexander, 146, 168, 169, 179, 187; army of, 111, 121; and Athenian democracy, 229; and Babylon, Settlement of, 187, 190; death of, 202; and home army, 187; and Lamian War, 192–94; and Memnon, 159; on Parmenio, death of, 162; and Philip, 130–31; and Philip, assassination of, 142–43; as regent of the kings, 199; and Sparta, 160; and War of the Diadochi, first, 196–98
Antipater II (son of Cassander), 237–38
Apelles, 185
Apollonia, 47, 89, 92, 118
Apollonius of Rhodes, 21, 273
Arbela (Arbil), 156, 159
Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, 122
Archaeological Museum of Naples, 122
Archelaus (son of Amyntas), 42, 45–46, 63, 75
Archelaus (son of Perdiccas), 29, 31; and aristocracy, 33; and Athenian culture, 35; and mining, 39
archery, 125–26
Archon, 96, 97
Argaeus, 43–44, 65, 68, 69
Argead dynasty (Argeadai), 28, 30; as first among equals, 31; and Macedonian unity, threat to, 74; origin of, 22–23, 43; and polygamy, 61
Argeadae. See Argead dynasty
Argeadai. See Argead dynasty
Argive Temenid, 23, 43
Argonautica (Apollonius), 273
Argos, 22, 23
argyraspides, 114, 115
Argyropoulos, Ioannis, 298-99
Aristodemus, 222, 224, 230, 231
Aristonous: and Perdiccas, 190, 198; and Settlement of Babylon, 188, 189; and War of the Diadochi, first, 196, 198
Aristophanes, 283
Aristotle: and al-Farabi, 292; and Alexander, 146, 169; and Ibn Rushd (Averroes), 292; and John Philoponus, 289–90; and Philip II, court of, 40, 52, 99, 143; and Philip II, death of, 142; writings of, and Ptolemy, 270
Arrhabaeus in Lyncus, 31, 73, 142
Arrhidaeus (Philip’s half brother), 42, 63, 75, 91
Arrhidaeus (regent), 197, 199
Arrian, 35, 111, 112, 183, 282, 296
Arrybas, 92, 93
Arsinoe, 244, 246, 247, 248
Artaxerxes II, 47, 173
Asander, 224
Asklepieion, 280
asthetairoi, 149
astynomoi, 264–66
Athena Promachos, 51
Athenaeus of Naucratis, 106, 270
Athens: and Alexander, death of, 191; and Amyntas, 48; and Cassander, 229, 233; and Chaeroneia, battle of, 133–34; democracy, end of, 193; democracy, restoration of, 229; and Hadrian, 280; and Macedonia, 79, 98; and Olynthians, 91; and Perdiccas II, 73; and Philip, 99, 101–2; population of, 37; and Second Athenian Confederacy, 47
Attalids, 252, 274–75
Attalus, 144–45, 188, 190, 196, 197
Audata, 67, 75, 92, 146
Averroes, 292
Avicenna, 291, 292
Babylon, Settlement of, 187–196
Bactria, 150, 161–63, 173, 179, 252
Badian, Ernest, 25, 170, 172, 175
Bagoas, 173
Balkan region, 83–89
Bardylis, 44; defeat of, 84–85; and Perdiccas, 62, 64–65; and Philip, 66, 67, 71
Barsine, 171, 173
Basil I the Macedonian, 295
basileus (basileia), 30, 73, 139, 244
Batrachomyomachia (Homer), and Alexander, 160
Bayt al-Hikma, 291
Berenice, 220, 239, 244, 246, 248
Beroea, inscription of, 263–64
Bessarion, 299, 301
Bessus, 159–63
Bibliotheca (Photios), 295
Birds, The (Aristophanes), 283
Bithynia, 252, 279
Borza, Eugene, 30
Bosworth, A. B., 105
Brasidas, 23, 68
Bulgars, 17, 294
Byzantine Empire, and Hellenistic culture, 294–98
Caesar Bardas, 295
Caesar Octavian (Augustus), 276
Callimachus, 272, 273, 278
Callisthenes, 162, 172, 182–83, 185
Cannae, Battle of, 250
Canon of Medicine (Avicenna), 291
Canopus decree, 247–48
Cape Taenarum, 191
Carthaginians, 250, 275, 277
Cassander, 78, 129, 131; and Alexander IV, death of, 226; and Antigonus, ultimatum to, 214; death of, 237; defeat of Polyperchon, 213–14; and Demetrius, invasion of, 228–29; as envoy to Alexander, 168; as king, 232; and Proclamation of Tyre, 223; and Settlement of Triparadeisus, 199–200; and succession wars to 301, 221–37; and Thessalonice, 90; and War of the Diadochi, second, 202–15
Catalogue of Ships, and Macedonian question, 19–20
Catalogue of Women, 20–22
cataphract, 259
Cavafy, Constantinos, 248–49
cavalry, 51f5, 1119–26, 120f11, 136
Celts, 239–40
Cersebleptes, 86–88
Cetriporis, 84–87
Chaeroneia, Battle of, 101, 115–16, 133–37, 135f12, 147
Chalkokondyles, Demetrios, 299–301
Chandragupta, 234–35
Charidemos, 91
chiliades, 116
chiliarch, 188, 190
chiliarchies, 215
Choerilus, 184
chora, 261
Christian gospel, 285
Chronographia (Malalas), 217
cities. See Hellenistic World, and cities
Cleander, 172
Cleitus the Black, 121, 140, 145, 152, 162, 171
Cleitus the White, 193, 204–5
Cleombrotus, 55
Cleomenes, 155
Cleon the Sicilian, 184
Cleopatra: and Alexander I, 93, 142; death of, 228; and Leonnatus, 193; and Perdiccas, 194–96
Common Peace, 101, 102
“common peace” of 371, 54–55
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, 297–98
Cordoba, 292
Cosmas Indicopleustes, 244
Cotys, 65, 67, 68, 84, 86, 87
Craterus, 78, 129, 131; and Alexander, second-in-command to, 161; in Cilicia, 187–88; death of, 198; and Gaugamela, battle of, 157; and Hydaspes, battle of, 164–65; and kausia, 188; and Lamian War, 193–94; and Macedonia, 168; and Makran desert, 167; and Philotas, 162; and Settlement of Babylon, 187, 190, 191, 196; and War of the Diadochi, first, 196–98
Crenides. See Philippi, 79
Cynnane, 67, 75, 146, 186, 195
Cynoscephalae, Battle of, 251, 276
Cyroupedium, Battle of, 238, 239
Damis, 184
Daphne, festival of, 259
Darius III, 150, 152–61, 153f13
De Thematibus (Porphyrogenitus), 21
“Decisive Treatise” (Averroes), 292
dekas, 110–111
Delphi, oracle of, 20, 94, 100
Demades, 102
Demetrius I Poliorcetes (the Besieger), 34; and Alexander V, 238; and Babylonia, 228; and Cassander, 217, 228–29; and command, rise in, 222; and Cypress, 229–31; death of, 239; fleet of, 230; and Gaza, battle of, 224–25; and invasion of Egypt, 232; and Ipsus, battle of, 235–37; as king, 231; and Lysimachus, 238; and Macedonia, ruler of, 238; and the people, 83; and Rhodes, 232–33; siegecraft of, 128
Demetrius of Phalerum, 269–71
Demosthenes: on Alexander, succession of, 147; legacy of, 278, 282, 284, 285, 296; and Macedonian question, 24; and Olynthians, 91; orations of, 99; and Peace of Phiocrates, 100; on pezetairoi, 114–15; on Philip, 89, 99; and Theb
es, 101
Derdas of Elimea, 29–31, 73, 91; and Alexander II, 56; and Amyntas, 45, 48; death of, 61; and Sparta, 47
Deucalion, 20–22
Diadochi, 9, 34; and administration, 215; and armies of, 174; and Athens, 177; and Babylon, Settlement of, 187–198; and basileia, 139; and colonization, 215–221, 255; and empires, creation of, 215–21; and final settlement of, 237–42; and Indian territories, 181; and Triparadeisus, Settlement of, 198–215. See also Diadochi, wars of
Diadochi, wars of: and Cyroupedium, Battle of, 238–39; first, 196–98; further, to 301, 221–37; second, 202–15
“Dialogues of ‘Amr,” 288
Dictys, 21
Dimnus, 172
Dio Chrysostom, 282
Diodorus of Sicily: on Amyntas III, 43, 48; and Argaeus, 43; on Chaeroneia, battle of, 134; and Field of Crocuses, battle of, 96; legacy of, 296; and Olynthian League, 46; on Paraetacene, battle of, 208–10; on Philip, 64; on Philip, and phalanx, 104, 106; on Philip, assassination of, 142; on Philip’s pezetairoi (elite soldiers), 114, 115; on Philip’s exile, 57; on Philip’s military recruitment, 70–71; and Sparta, 47
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 282, 296
Dionysius of Syracuse, 127
Diophantus, 291
Dioscurides, 223
Dorians, 21
doru, 107
Dorus, 21
Dynasts, Peace of the, the, 225, 227
Eliot, T. S., 273
endoxos douleia, 255
Epaminondas: and King’s Peace of 386, 55; and Leuctra, Battle of, 55, 59; and Peloponnesian League, 60; and Sparta, 55–56, 60, 97–98; war tactics of, 58, 59
eparchies, 215
Ephesus, and Library of Celsus, 280–81
Ephorus, reputation of, 273
Epicurus, 283
epilektous, 115
Epiphanius of Salamis, 269
Erigyius of Mitylene, 77
Etymologicum Magnum, 115
Eumenes of Cardia, 77, 129, 188; and Cappadocia, 194; and Cleopatra, 194–96; and Copratas, 208; death of, 212; and Gabiene, battle of, 211–12; and Orcynia, 200–1; and pantodapoi, 175; and Paraetacene, battle of, 208–10; and Settlement of Babylon, 189, 190; and War of the Diadochi, first, 196–98; and War of the Diadochi, second, 202–15
Euphorion of Chalkis, 274
Euripides, 29, 284, 285
Eurydice (Adea), 195, and Olympias, battle with, 213–14; and Settlement of Triparadeisus, 198–99
Eurydice (mother of Philip), 45–46, 53–54, 57, 60, 144
Eurydice (wife of Philip), 42, 143
Eurydice (wife of Ptolemy), 239
exetastai, 263
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