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Ancient Greece

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by Thomas R. Martin


  Renaissance, 238

  representative democracy, 114

  Republic (Plato), 231–32

  Republic (Zeno), 272

  retributive justice, 58, 62–63, 184

  Rhea, 62

  rhetoric, 181, 232, 233, 236, 237–38

  Rhetra, 96

  Rhodes, 256, 262, 265

  rivers, 13

  roads, 13

  Roman Empire, 281–82; art of, 157; Greeks subjugated in, 1, 10; Hellenistic kingdoms vanquished by, 256; slavery in, 85

  root vegetables, 12

  rowers, 139, 140–41, 205

  Roxane, 222, 248, 251, 254

  ruler cults, 276

  Russian language, 26

  Sabbath, 278

  Sacred War, 242

  sacrifices, 114, 159, 164; of animals, 54, 60, 67, 126, 163, 213; as obligation, 160, 165; Persians’ shunning of, 126; rules governing, 163; scheduling of, 162; slaves’ attendance at, 86, 161; by social elite, 54

  Salamis, 123, 132, 133, 168

  Samos, 91, 104, 123, 148, 176, 204, 210, 264

  sanctuaries: to Apollo, 75, 159, 242; to Athena, 152–53, 154; destruction of, 127, 134; early, 68; Egyptian, 74; Minoan, 37; sacrifices in, 161; slaves attached to, 86; statues in, 155; to Zeus, 59, 60, 115

  Sanskrit language, 24, 26

  Sappho, 7, 92, 115–16

  Sarapis, 278

  Sardis, 121, 122, 127

  satire, 9, 210

  satraps, 121, 122, 126, 202

  satyrs, 60, 166

  Sceptics, 273

  Schliemann, Heinrich, 35

  schooling, 177–78, 265

  science, 4, 8, 13, 118–20, 183, 270–71, 273–74, 280

  scribes, 47–48

  scrip currency, 208

  sculpture, 13; in Archaic Age, 88, 155–56, 157; in Classical Age, 65, 268; fertility symbolized by, 17, 18; in Hellenistic Age, 268–70; Near Eastern influence on, 28–29, 74, 118

  seafaring, 12–13, 34, 40, 49

  sea level, 16

  seals, 61

  Sea Peoples, 41–43, 45

  secondary sources, 5, 7

  seeds, 21

  Segesta (Egesta), 200

  Seleucid kingdom, 255, 256, 258, 263, 277, 278

  Seleucus, 252, 255, 261

  Sesklo, 17

  settlements, 17

  sex, 4, 68, 89, 101, 102, 175–76; Cynics’ view of, 273; in drama, 208, 210–11

  sheep, 10, 17, 20

  shellfish, 14, 17, 43

  shields, 51, 212

  shipbuilding, 13, 34, 75, 103, 133–34, 139, 202, 275

  Sicily (Magna Graecia), 10, 69, 91, 103, 104, 115, 131, 187; Athens vs., 200–202; Spartans in, 224

  silver, 13, 30, 35, 86, 123, 134, 140, 151, 155, 198, 207, 223; coins made of, 192, 193, 208, 213, 240

  Simonides, 7, 116

  slag, 19

  slavery, slaves, 1, 65, 66, 91; Aristotle’s defense of, 234–35; chattel, 83–86; debtors as, 109, 110; Epicurus and, 271; female, 85, 174; fugitive, 202, 214; in Hellenistic Age, 262, 280; household, 85, 86, 87, 207, 213, 214; political exclusion of, 4, 78; public, 86; in religious ceremonies, 161, 164; sex with, 176; in silver mines, 86, 202, 214

  Slavic languages, 24

  smelting, 19, 51, 52, 207

  social hierarchy, 15–16, 19, 50–51, 68, 174, 238, 262

  Socrates, 212, 215–16, 228, 237; material goods disdained by, 214; trial and execution of, 187, 211, 214, 217–20, 227; Xenophon’s writings on, 8

  Solon, 92, 109–12, 114, 142, 178; Croesus advised by, 161, 165; as poet, 110, 116

  sophists, 179–81, 214, 216, 217, 237

  Sophocles, 8, 159, 168, 169, 170, 171

  sources, 5–10

  Spain, 69, 70

  Spanish language, 26

  Sparta: Athens allied with, 126–37, 186; Athens vs., 49, 67, 113, 121–22, 123, 142, 147, 149, 159, 189, 190–91, 192, 194, 221, 223, 226; Attica outpost of, 202, 207, 213; in Corinthian War, 222; colonization by, 73; dual kingship in, 91, 94; earthquake near, 141; family life in, 89, 97; founding legend of, 106; Hippias expelled by, 112; infantry of, 194; Isocrates’ view of, 237; isolation of, 93–94; Messenia invaded by, 92, 94, 98, 226; militarism of, 93, 97, 100, 103, 138, 197–98; oligarchy in, 93; peace terms offered by, 198, 204, 205; Peloponnese allies of, 138; Persians vs., 131, 133, 135–36; political system in, 94, 96, 111; population decline in, 201, 242; slavery in, 85, 86, 97–99, 103; surrendering rejected by, 197; Thirty Tyrants installed by, 205; uniqueness of, 8, 97; way of life in, 99–103; women in, 87, 101, 102

  spearheads, 30, 51

  Sphacteria, 197

  spices, 250

  spirits, 119

  stipends, 123

  Stoa, 272

  Stoics, 254, 271, 272

  Stone Age, 10, 14, 27, 28, 31

  stoneworking, 19, 21

  Strabo, 281–82

  stratēgoi, 114

  subjectivism, 181

  subsistence agriculture, 45, 49, 109

  sussition, 100–101, 103

  swords, 30, 41, 51

  symposia, 178–79, 214

  synoecism, 94

  Syracuse, 103, 131, 187, 200–202, 227

  Syria, 43, 66, 70, 255, 256, 260, 278

  Tanagra, 147

  Taras (Taranto), 73

  taxation, 140, 151, 155; on agricultural production, 112; in Corinth, 75; in Hellenistic Age, 243, 259, 260; on income, 110–11; in Laconia, 97; of metics, 212; in Persian Empire, 126, 247

  technology, 16, 20–22

  Tecmessa, 169

  Tel el-Dab’a (Avaris), 34

  telos, 233, 234

  temples, 28, 39, 48, 72, 74, 76, 86, 104, 105, 260; architecture of, 153–54

  tenants, 263

  textiles, 19, 20, 33, 87, 88

  Thales, 118

  Thasos, 139–40

  Theagenes, 108

  theaters, 76, 166–67, 171, 208, 259, 260

  Thebes, 128, 131, 169, 221, 224, 225, 226, 242; destruction of, 243

  Themistocles, 123, 133, 134

  Theocritus, 266

  Theodorus the Atheist, 273

  Theognis, 76–77

  Theogony (Hesiod), 7, 61–62, 77, 89–90

  Theophrastus, 270, 271

  Theopompus, 241

  Thera, 37, 72–73

  Thermopylae, 123, 131

  Thersites, 63, 83

  Theseus, 106–7, 117, 123, 164

  Thessaly, 10, 17, 222, 225–26, 241–42

  thetes, 110, 139, 141

  Thirty Tyrants, 187, 205, 211, 212, 214, 218

  tholos tombs, 36–37

  Thrace, 84, 240

  Thucydides (historian), 138, 139, 194; civil war described by, 196–97; Cleon viewed by, 197; as commander, 188; Constitution of the Five Thousand backed by, 204; epidemic described by, 195; insightfulness of, 8, 188, 191–92, 199–200; ostracism of, 198

  Thucydides (rival of Pericles), 148

  Thurii, 159

  tiles, 17

  Timaeus (Plato), 230

  timber, 13, 46, 48, 198, 239

  tin, 21, 33, 52

  Tiryns, 44

  toilets, 150

  tombs, 26, 36, 38, 39, 164

  tool making, 14, 15, 16, 19, 30, 51

  topography, 10–14, 68

  totems, 5

  trade, 3, 12, 19; in Archaic Age, 93; by city-states, 69–70; in grain, 203, 204, 213; in Hellenistic Age, 262–63; by Minoans, 24, 33–34; with Near East, 13, 20, 29, 40, 67, 73–74; poor laborers in, 81; technology spread by, 16; in tin, 52

  tragedy, 8, 158, 166–71, 208

  translation, 5

  transportation, 13

  Treasury of Atreus, 39

  trees, 213

  tribes, 113–14

  tribute, 139, 148

  triremes, 134, 139, 203

  trittyes, 113

  Trojan War, 34, 35–36, 56, 57, 63, 168, 170

  Troy, 30, 56

  Truth (Protagoras), 181

  tu
tors, 85

  tyranny, 82, 103–6, 112

  Tyre, 222, 246

  Tyrtaeus, 7, 97, 99, 101

  Ugarit, 43

  vases, 93,117, 118, 125,177, 209

  vegetable oil, 259

  vegetables, 19, 174, 213

  Ventris, Michael, 37

  Venus, 28

  vineyard labor, 207, 280

  virginity, 175

  voting, 77, 78, 80–81, 113

  warfare: captives taken in, 84; in Dark Age, 82; internal, 14, 44; metallurgy and, 30; religious guidance in, 60, 75

  Wasps (Aristophanes), 144

  water clock, 275

  water supply, 105, 112, 213–14

  weapons, 15, 30, 34, 35, 79; burial with, 38, 51

  weather, 13, 60

  weaving, 19, 207

  weddings, 115, 117

  weights and measures, 259

  Wen-Amon, 43

  wet nurses, 207, 214

  wheat, 12, 213

  wild boars, 100

  wine, 12, 31, 33, 75, 100, 213

  women: Aristotle’s view of, 234–35; Athenian life for, 171–77; in audiences, 208; childbearing by, 20, 77, 87, 98, 101, 102, 103, 170, 172, 175, 176; in city-states, 68, 78, 91; in comedy, 210; in cults, 87; Epicurus and, 271; in Hellenistic Age, 263–64; Hesiod’s view of, 89–90; households managed by, 87, 102, 172, 178, 207, 213; as hunter-gatherers, 16–17; in later Neolithic period, 19–20; Plato’s view of, 231–32; poetry by, 267–68; political exclusion of, 1, 4, 78, 91, 146, 158–59, 171–72, 237; as priestesses, 172; property rights of, 89, 102, 172–73; as slaves, 85, 174; soldiers accompanied by, 247; in Sparta, 87, 101, 102, 173; in tragedy, 169–70; wartime hardships of, 206–7

  Wonders of the World, The (Callimachus), 267

  woodworking, 19

  wool, 20

  Works and Days (Hesiod), 7, 89

  wrestling, 59

  writing, 7, 17, 20, 47, 49, 55–56, 74, 178; cuneiform, 32

  xenia, 56

  Xenophanes, 119–20

  Xenophon, 96, 176, 212, 223, 226, 239; as adventurer, 8, 224; helot revolt viewed by, 99; Socrates recalled by, 214, 217, 220, 237

  Xerxes, 123, 131, 133, 134–35, 186

  yogurt, 20

  Zeno, 254, 272

  zeugitai, 110

  Zeus (Jupiter), 26, 27, 40, 77, 89, 156, 160–61, 265; children of, 250; literary portrayals of, 62; sanctuaries to, 59, 60, 155

  zoology, 234

  Zoroaster, 126

 

 

 


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