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; INDEX

  ILLUSTRATIONS ARE INDICATED BY

  PAGE NUMBERS IN ITALIC TYPE.

  Aberdeen Painter, cup with Triptolemus, 148

  Achilles, 47, 50–51, 53, 54, 57, 130–31

  Acragas, 85, 182, 184, 186

  Adam, 2, 22, 23, 112, 157

  Aeetes, King, 9, 65

  Aelian, 57

  Aeschylus: Daedalus’s statues as subject in tragedy by, 103; Glaukos (two distinct individuals) as subject of tragedies by, 48; Nurses of Dionysus, 34; Prometheus trilogy, 105; Sisyphus as subject of tragedy by, 53; Theoroi, 103

  Aeson, 33–36, 43, 53

  Aesop, 81, 244n39

  agalmatophilia (statue lust), 107–10

  Agathocles, 86, 184

  aging, 53–58. See also rejuvenation

  AI. See Artificial Intelligence

  Ajatasatru, King, 203–6

  Alcinous, King, 143–44, 151

  Alcmene, 42

  Alexander Romance, 49, 66, 81–82

  Alexander the Great, 49, 50, 66–67, 81–82, 187, 193, 207

  Alexandria, Egypt, 10–11, 100, 128, 146, 192, 197–202

  Ali, Daud, 206

  Amazons, 47

  ambrosia, 27, 42, 50, 57–58

  Ambrosios Painter, 148

  Amenhotep III, 188

  Anchises, 55

  androids, 7, 219

  anime, 210

  ankle. See heel/ankle, vulnerability of

  anthropomorphization, 11

  Antikythera device, 186, 195, 196

  Antony, Marc, 196

  Apega, 193–95

  Apelles, 98

  Aphrodite, 17, 55, 57, 107–9, 129, 134–35, 159

  Apollo, 55–56, 75, 146, 149, 181

  Apollodorus, 70, 91, 137

  Apollonius of Rhodes, 127, 128, 147; Argonautica, 7–11, 20, 22, 27, 28, 63–65, 150

  Apollonius of Tyana, 109, 145

  Appian, 196

  archaic smiles, 166, 168

  Archimedes of Syracuse, 195

  architecture: Daedalus credited with, 85–86; honeycomb structure of, 88

  Archytas, 128, 190–92, 214

  Ares, 52–53

  Argo (ship), 8, 42, 150

  Argus, 135, 137–38, 137

  Arhats, 209

  Ariadne, 72, 75

  Aristeides (artisan), 191

 

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