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Ancient Greece

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by Thomas R. Martin


  free will, 272

  French language, 26

  frescoes, 34

  friezes, 154

  fruits, 14, 213

  funerals, 87, 174

  furniture, 61, 262

  Galatia, 254, 256

  game animals, 14, 16

  Gaugamela, 247

  Gauls, 254, 256, 268

  Gedrosia, 249

  Gedrosian Desert, 222

  Gelon, 131

  generals, 146

  geography, 7, 250, 274

  Geometric art, 52

  geometry, 273–74

  German language, 26

  gerousia, 96

  Gla, 44

  Glaucus, 56–57

  goats, 10, 17

  goddess worship, 40, 87

  gold, 30, 35, 36, 74, 86, 139, 198; coins made of, 208, 240

  Golden Age, 149, 158

  Gordion, 246

  grains, 12, 19, 21, 31, 50, 260; containers for, 52; trade in, 203, 204, 213

  granaries, 52

  Granicus River, 222, 245–46

  grapes, 31

  graves, 26, 35, 155

  grazing, 20, 50

  Greek language, 10; in Crete, 37; as cultural bond, 14; international spread of, 265–66; in Jewish communities, 278; in Laconia, 94; in Macedonia, 239; origins of, 23, 24, 26, 27; as professional qualification, 258–59; writing system of, 47, 55–56

  Gylippus, 201

  gymnasia, 178, 215, 259

  Gytheon, 93

  habituation, 235, 236

  Hades, 161

  harbor fees, 151

  Hattusas, 43

  Hebrew Bible, 278

  Hecataeus, 183

  hegemon, 245

  Helena, 268

  Helen of Troy, 36

  heliocentric model, 274

  Hellen, 23

  Hellenica (Xenophon), 239

  Hellenistic Age, 2, 9, 253–80

  Hellespont, 131

  helmets, 79, 80

  helots, 100, 101, 112; economic importance of, 103. 226; legal status of, 97–98; revolts by, 99, 102, 123, 138, 141–42, 145, 194; Spartans vs., 98, 99, 142

  Hephaestus, 161

  Hephaistion, 250–51

  Hera, 40, 59, 104, 161

  Heracles (Hercules), 106, 164, 242

  Heraean Games, 59

  herding, 19–20, 28, 49

  Hermes, 161

  herms, 200–201

  Hero, 275

  hero cults, 164

  Herodotus, 1, 7–8, 28, 84, 127, 188; innovativeness of, 183–84

  Herophilus, 275

  Hesiod, 13, 47, 119; didacticism of, 7, 115; justice viewed by, 62, 63–64, 77, 83; myth employed by, 61–62; women viewed by, 89–90

  hetairai, 176–77

  hideworking, 19

  hieroglyphs, 32

  Hieropolis, 263

  Himera, 131

  Hipparchia, 273

  hippeis, 110

  Hippias, 92, 112, 128, 145

  Hippocrates, 184–85, 277

  Histories (Herodotus), 7–8, 127, 183–84

  historiography, 1, 4, 5, 183–84

  Hittites, 40, 41, 43

  Homer, 34, 47, 55, 63, 70, 72, 74, 83, 161; battle tactics depicted by, 79, 82; gods depicted by, 62, 119; heroic ideal of, 245; rhythmic pattern, 115; values espoused by, 7, 56, 57, 58

  Homeric Hymns, 165

  homoioi, 100

  Homo sapiens sapiens, 15

  homosexuality, 89, 101, 179

  hoplites, 66, 79–82, 99, 107, 129, 134, 139

  Horace, 267

  horse racing, 59

  horses, 10, 16, 39

  hospitality, 160

  households, 87–90

  House of Tiles, 17

  housing, 13, 17

  humors, 184, 275

  hunter-gatherers, 14–15, 16, 19, 27, 30

  hybris, 160

  hydrostatics, 274

  Hyphasis River, 222, 248

  Iasus, 263

  Idylls (Theocritus), 266

  Iliad (Homer), 63, 83, 178; Alexander the Great inspired by, 245; battle tactics in, 79, 82; guest-host friendship in, 56–57; Mycenaean aims reflected in, 35–36; as primary source, 7; retribution in, 58; social values reflected in, 55

  Illion, 255

  Illyria, 240

  impiety, 218

  India, 4, 124, 222, 248–49, 254, 255, 256, 263, 273

  Indo-Europeans, 23–27

  Indus River, 248

  infanticide, 264

  infantrymen, 39, 41, 123, 125

  inheritance, 89, 90, 172–73, 175, 213

  inscriptions, 5, 6, 9

  Ion (Euripides), 86

  Ionia: democracy in, 129, 135; Greek colonization of, 69; intellectual currents in, 117–18, 119, 120; Persian outposts in, 137; revolts in, 123, 127–28, 202–3

  Ionian Sea, 10

  Ionic style, 153, 154, 270

  Iphicrates, 225

  Ipsus, 254, 255

  Iran, 124, 127, 222, 247

  Iraq, 48, 222, 247

  iron ore, 13, 52, 70

  ironworking, 47, 51–52, 79

  irrigation, 19

  Isagoras, 113

  Ischia, 66, 70

  Isis, 276, 277–78, 279

  Isocrates, 237–38

  Issus, 246

  Italy, 10, 69, 73, 104

  Ithaca, 57

  ivory, 15, 30–31

  Jason, 170, 222, 225–26

  javelins, 41, 123

  Jerusalem, 278, 280

  jewelry, 19, 30, 35, 45, 52, 61

  Jews, 254, 260, 264, 278, 280

  Judah the Maccabee, 278, 280

  judicial system, 77, 78, 142–44, 178

  Jupiter. See Zeus juries, 123, 142–43, 145–46, 180, 238

  justice, 83, 214, 216, 228, 230, 231, 235; in city-states, 63, 64; Hesiod’s view of, 62, 63–64, 77, 83; retributive, 58, 62–63, 184

  Justin, 9

  kidnapping, 77, 78

  King’s Friends, 258, 262

  King’s Peace (386), 225

  Knights, The (Aristophanes), 187, 210

  Knossos, 26, 34, 35, 37

  knowledge, 216–17, 228

  Koine, 259, 276

  Korē (Persephone), 164–65

  kottabos, 177

  Kronos, 62, 77

  Krypteia, 100

  labor specialization, 19

  Laches (Plato), 216

  Laconia, 93, 123, 225

  landownership, 81, 102, 109, 110, 146, 172, 263

  landscaping, 150

  land shortages, 69–70, 73

  Laodice, 263

  Latin language, 24, 26

  Laurion, 140, 192, 207

  Laws, The (Plato), 232

  lead metallurgy, 19, 30

  League of Corinth, 221, 242, 243, 261

  Learned Banqueters (Athenaeus), 9

  Lebanon, 246

  Lefkandi, 50

  legal system, 8, 15, 77, 92, 111; democratic reforms to, 141–46

  legislative assembly. See assembly

  lentils, 16

  Leonidas, 131

  Leontion, 271

  Lerna, 17

  Lesbos, 10, 69, 106, 195

  Leucippus, 183, 272

  Leuctra, 222, 225

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 5

  Libation Bearers, The (Aeschylus), 159

  Libya, 72

  Linear A, 32, 43

  Linear B, 37–38, 40, 43, 47

  literacy, 178

  literary criticism, 233

  literature, 1, 4, 5, 266–68; as primary source, 7

  liturgies, 151, 238

  logic, 119, 233, 271

  Long Walls, 187, 192, 213, 225

  lotteries, 142, 144, 145

  Lyceum, 222, 233

  Lycidas, 135

  Lycurgus, 96, 106

  Lydia, 74, 124, 278

  lyre, 115

  lyric poetry, 115–16

  Lysander, 187, 204, 205, 224

  Lysias, 163, 205, 212<
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  Lysimachus, 263

  Lysippus, 268

  Lysistrata (Aristophanes), 187, 210–11

  Macedonia, 9, 212, 223; Antigonid kingdom in, 255; city-states subordinated to, 243; Egypt invaded by, 222; Neanderthals in, 15; Neolithic villages in, 17; rise to power of, 221, 226, 239–43

  magic, 119

  magistrates, 178

  Magna Graecia. See Sicily

  makeup, 175

  Mantiklos, 159

  Mantinea, 187, 199, 222, 226, 237

  Marathon, 123, 128, 131, 132, 140, 145, 151, 164, 168

  marble, 13, 157

  Mardonius, 127, 134, 135, 136

  marriage, 87, 89–90, 102, 164, 235, 264

  masks, 36

  materialism, 270

  mathematics, 118, 227, 231, 232, 233, 274, 280

  matrifocality, 27

  Mauryan dynasty, 255

  mean, Aristotelian, 235, 236

  measurement, 274–75

  meat eating, 12, 17, 21, 67, 100, 213

  Medea (Euripides), 159, 170, 174

  Medes, 124

  medicine, 184, 233, 265, 275, 277, 280

  Megara, 190–91

  Megarian Decree, 190

  megarons, 37, 50

  Melanippe, 172

  Melos, 187, 199–200

  Menander, 9, 266

  mercenaries, 39, 41–42, 79, 258

  Mesopotamia, 124, 247, 249; legal codes in, 40; medical knowledge in, 275; monopolies in, 33; technology in, 20

  Messenia: agriculture in, 10; helot revolts in, 99, 123, 141–42; social hierarchy in, 50; Spartan invasions of, 92, 94, 98, 222, 226

  metallurgy: in Anatolia, 19; artistic uses of, 157; in Balkans, 15, 26; in Crete, 26, 32; diffusion of, 20–22; Minoan and Mycenaean, 29–30; technological advances in, 30, 51

  metal ores, 13, 19, 51, 70, 124

  metaphysics, 227, 231, 232, 233, 270

  meteorology, 233

  metics, 78, 87, 212–13

  miasma, 160

  Midas, 74, 246

  migration, 69, 70, 258

  Mikon, 151

  military service, 79, 80–81, 82, 107, 114, 168, 178

  milk, 20

  Milo, 59

  Miltiades, 129, 140, 151

  Mimnermus, 116

  mines: iron, 52; revenues from 151, 155, 192, 198, 207, 223, 240; slave labor in, 86, 202, 214

  Minoans, 24, 26, 29–30; Mycenaean contact with, 34–38; palace society of, 31–34, 40

  Minos, 32, 106

  Minotaur, 106, 117

  Modern Greek language, 259

  Moiro, 268

  monarchy, 91; Greek rejection of, 3; Hellenistic, 255, 261–62; return of, 9

  monogamy, 89

  monopolies, 33, 259

  mountains, 10

  Mount Olympus, 10, 12, 161

  mud bricks, 17

  murder, 160

  Museum, 267

  music, 48, 115, 118, 162, 166, 176, 233

  Mycale, 123, 136

  Mycenae, 34–35, 44

  Mycenaeans, 23, 24, 29–30; decline of, 40–45, 46, 47, 48–49, 67, 91; Minoan contact with, 34–38; religion of, 39–40; social hierarchy among, 68; as warriors, 38–39

  Myron, 157

  mystery cults, 164–65, 277

  myth, 7, 28, 119; religion and, 60–64

  Mytilene, 106, 115, 195

  Naupactus, 195

  navies, 80; Athenian, 123, 133–34, 137, 138, 139, 155, 187, 192, 195, 197, 200–201, 203, 222, 225, 226; Corcyraean, 190; Corinthian, 103, 190; Delian, 191; Hellenistic, 258; Persian, 124, 129, 133, 136; Spartan, 201, 204, 205

  Neanderthals, 15

  Near East: agriculture in 16, 21; assemblies in, 92; craft production in, 30–31; cultural achievements in, 4; Dark Age in, 46; Greek borrowings from, 2–3, 23–24, 28, 47, 74, 117–18, 252, 275; Macedonian rulers in, 10; metallurgy in, 21–22, 30, 51; mythology in, 61; poetry in, 56; Sea Peoples from, 41; sheep domesticated in, 17; trade with, 13, 20, 29, 40, 67, 73–74

  necklaces, 35, 52

  Nemea, 265

  Neobule, 116

  neodamodeis, 99

  Neolithic Age, 14; daily life in, 16–20

  New Testament, 259

  Nichoria, 50

  Nicias (general), 178, 187, 198–99, 200, 201

  Nicias (painter), 268

  Nicomedes, 270

  Nimrud, 48

  North Africa, 10, 69, 72–73, 131, 249, 250

  Nossis, 267–68

  Notion, 204

  nuts, 14

  oats, 16

  Octavian (Augustus), 258

  Odysseus, 57–58, 63, 83, 168–69

  Odyssey (Homer), 7, 55, 57, 58, 70, 178

  Oedipus, 169

  officeholding, 78, 81, 110

  oikonomia, 87

  oligarchy, 91, 93, 103, 107, 111–12, 203; broad vs. narrow, 204

  olive oil, 12, 31, 33, 75, 112, 213

  olives, 12, 31, 213

  Olympia, 14, 59, 155

  Olympias, 243, 254

  Olympic Games, 47, 59–60, 83

  omens, 60

  On the Rivers of Europe (Callimachus), 267

  oracles, 66, 75, 96, 127, 160

  oral tradition, 7, 48, 178

  oratory, 180

  ores, 13

  Oresteia (Aeschylus), 159

  ornaments, 19

  Osiris, 278

  ostracism, 144–45, 198

  Painted Stoa, 150–51

  painting, 162, 268

  palaces, 26; Minoan, 31–34, 35, 40; Mycenaean, 37, 44

  Paleolithic Age, 14

  Palestine, 70, 256, 260, 278

  Panathenaic festival, 162

  Panathenaicus (Isocrates), 237

  Pandora, 89–90

  Panhellenism, 60, 83, 238

  papyrus, 5

  Parthenon, 151–55, 162

  Parthians, 255

  patriarchy, 26, 27, 28, 175

  patrilinearity, 27

  patrilocality, 26–27

  patronage, 266, 267

  Pausanias, 1, 59, 123, 136, 137, 281

  Peace of Nicias, 198–99

  pears, 16

  peasants, 64, 107, 108, 109

  pediments, 154

  Peloponnese peninsula, 14, 15, 34–35, 50

  Peloponnesian League, 138, 190, 191

  Peloponnesian War, 149, 159; aftermath of, 211–14, 223–26; causes of, 188–92; costs of, 186–88; domestic life in, 206–11

  Peloponnesian War (Thucydides), 8, 138, 139, 191, 194, 196–97, 204; Melian Dialogue in, 199–200

  peltasts, 225

  pendants, 19, 35

  Penelope, 57, 58

  pentakosiomedimnoi, 110

  “peoples,” 263

  Perdiccas, 240

  Pergamum, 256

  Periander, 92, 104

  Pericles, 176, 185, 205, 217; architectural projects and, 151, 153; citizenship law of, 123, 146; death of, 187, 195; dramatic portrayals of, 209–10; egalitarian tendencies of, 145; foreign policy of, 147–49; Plato’s criticism of, 227; sophists befriended by, 181, 183; Spartan ultimatums rejected by, 190, 191, 243; strategy of, 192, 194, 197

  perioikoi, 97

  Persian Empire, 8, 121–24, 126, 148; administration of, 259; Athens sacked by, 153; Greece invaded by, 131–37, 242; in Hellenistic Age, 255; heterogeneity of, 247; Macedonia invaded by, 242; Macedonian conquest of, 221, 222, 239; outposts of, 137, 140; Sparta backed by, 202; Spartan designs on, 224

  Persian language, 24, 124

  Persian Wars, 126–37, 184, 191, 225

  Petralona Cave, 15

  phalanx, 79, 240

  Pharos, 275

  Pherae, 222, 225

  Phidias, 155, 157

  philanthropy, 238, 260, 263–64

  Philemon, 266

  Philip II, 212, 226, 241–42, 247; army reorganized by, 221, 240; Demosthenes’ view of, 9, 239–40; League of Corinth founded by, 222, 238

  philosopher-kings, 233

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p; philosophy, 1, 4, 8, 10, 13, 116–17, 214–20; Aristotelian, 232–36; in Hellenistic Age, 270–75, 280; Platonic, 226–32

  Philoxenus, 268

  Phocis, 147, 242

  Phoenicia, 43, 66, 67, 131; colonizers from, 70

  Phoenician alphabet, 47, 55, 74

  Phormio, 195

  Phrygia, 74, 246, 278

  phylai, 113

  physics, 233, 271

  physiology, 275

  pigs, 10

  Pindar, 7, 60, 116

  piracy, 13, 44

  Piraeus, 12, 140, 192, 204, 212–13

  Pisistratus, 92, 112, 128, 151

  plants, 14, 16, 17

  Plataea, 123, 128, 129, 131, 136, 137

  Plato, 8, 179, 215–16, 219, 226–32, 273; Academy founded by, 222; Aristotle vs., 233

  plowing, 20, 28

  Plutarch, 9

  pneumatics, 274

  poetry, 4, 48, 56, 74, 115, 162, 266; in Near East, 56; by women, 267–68

  poleis. See city-states political science, 8, 233

  politics, 3, 8, 9; women excluded from, 1, 4, 78, 91, 146, 158–59, 171–72, 237

  Polyclitus, 157

  polyculture, 26, 31

  Polygnotus, 151

  polytheism, 276

  poor people, 66, 77, 78, 79–83, 104, 107, 112, 262

  population growth: agriculture and, 31, 52–53, 69, 92–93; in Archaic Age, 76–77, 92–93; in Athens, 108; in Attica, 107; late Neolithic, 17–18

  Poseidon, 40, 161

  Posidippus, 264

  Potidaea, 149, 190, 191, 195

  potnia, 40

  pottery, 70, 85, 212, 213; burial with, 35; Corinthian, 75, 104, 112; in Dark Age, 50; in Hellenistic Age, 262; Near Eastern, 61, 74

  power sharing, 81, 91

  Praxagoras, 275

  Praxiteles, 268, 270

  prayer, 137, 159, 161, 163, 164, 165

  prehistory, 2, 14–16

  primary sources, 5, 7

  profanity, 209

  Prometheus, 89

  property rights, 68, 78, 90, 147; of women, 89, 102, 172–73

  Propylaea, 151

  prose, 4, 7, 116–17

  prostitutes, 89, 176, 247

  protagonists, 167

  Protagoras, 159, 180–81, 183

  Psammetichus, 104

  psychology, 233

  Ptolemaic kingdom, 255–56, 258, 259, 263, 266, 277, 278

  Ptolemy (astronomer), 274

  Ptolemy I, 254, 255, 263, 267, 278

  Ptolemy II, 263, 267, 278

  public speaking, 178, 179–80

  Pylos, 39, 187, 197, 198, 204

  Pyrrho, 273

  Pythagoras, 118, 273

  Pythia, 75

  radiocarbon dating, 21

  rainfall, 13

  Ramesses III, 41

  rationalism, 120, 230, 231

  reciprocal exchange, 31

  redistributive economy, 32, 33, 45, 47, 49

  relativism, 228

  reliefs, 34, 74, 118, 154

  religion, 4, 10, 13, 14, 119, 159–65; city-state and, 67; Egyptian, 28; Hellenistic, 276–80; Mycenaean, 38–39; myth and, 60–64; Persian, 126; science vs., 183; social hierarchy and, 54; women and, 78, 87

  remains, 5, 9, 21

 

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