A Smaller History of Greece

INDEX.

ABROCOMAS.

ALEXANDER.

Agnon, 79.

AMYNTAS.

at Issus, 189; march
through Phoenicia, 190;
besieges Tyre 191; an-
swer to Parmenio, ib.;
proceeds to Egypt, ib.;
visits the temple of Am-
mon, 192; defeats Dari-
us in the battle of Arbe-
la, 193; enters Babylon,
ib.; seizes Susa, 194;
marches to Persepolis,
ib.; pursues Darius, 195;
invades Hyrcania, ib.;
enters Bactria, 196; de-
feats the Scythians, ib.;
marries Roxana, ib.;
kills Clitus, 197; plot of
the pages against his
life, ib.; crosses the In-
dus, ib.; vanquishes Po-
rus, 198; marches home-
wards, ib.; peril among
the Malli, ib.; arrives at
the Indian Ocean, 199;
march through Gedro-
sia, ib.; marries Statira,
ib.; quells a mutiny at
Opis, 200; solemnizes
the festival of Dionysus
at Ecbatana, ib.; his
ambitious projects, 200,
201; death, 201; char-
acter, ib.; estimate of
his exploits, ib.; funeral,
206.
Alexander, son of Alex.
ander the Great, 206,
209.

A BROCOMAS, 144.
Academy, the, 96, 238.
Acarnania, 2.
Achæan league, 214.
Achæans, 5.
Achæus, 5.
Achaia, 3, 18.

-, a Roman province,
221.

Acharnæ, 100.

Achelous, 2.

Achilles, 7.

Achradina, 122.

Acropolis, Athenian, 85,
89.

Adimantus, 63.
Admetus, 73.
Aeetes, 7.

galeos, Mt., Xerxes at,
64.

Ægeus, 6.

Ægina described, 55.
gospotami, battle of, 133.
Ægyptus, 5.

olians, 4.

Eolus, 4.

Agora, 9.

Athenian, 96.
Agrigentum, 42.
Alcæus, 225.
Alcibiades, character of,
112; deceives the Spar-
tan ambassadors, ib.; at
Olympia, 113; in Sicily,
114; accused of mutilat-
ing the Hermæ, 115; ar-
rest and escape of, ib.;
condemned, ib.; goes to
Sparta, 116; excites a re-
volt of the Chians, 123;
dismissed by the Spar-
tans, 124; flies to Tissa-
phernes, ib.; intrigues
of, ib.; procedings at
Samos, 126; arrested by
Tissaphernes, 127; de-
feats the Peloponnesians
at Cyzicus, ib.; returns
to Athens, 128; dismiss-
el from the command]
of the Athenian fleet,
130; flies to Pharnaba-
zus, murdered, 136.

Eschines accuses Demos-Alemæonidæ banished, 31.
thenes, 202; retires to Alcman, 224.
Rhodes, ib.; account of
his life, 235.
Eschylus, account of, 231.
Ætolia, 2.
Ætolian league, 216.
Ætolians reduced, 210.
Agamemnon, 5, 7.
Agesilaus becomes King

of Sparta, 149; charac-
ter, ib.; his expedition
against the Persians,
151; attacks Pharnaba-
zus, ib.; routs the Per-
sians on the Pactolus,
152; recalled, ib.; home-
ward march, 154; in-
vades Boeotia, 163; saves
Sparta, 167; expedition
to Egypt, 170; death, ib.
Agesipolis, 153.
Agis, 113, 14).
IV., 215.

Alexander of Pheræ, 168;
defeated by Pelopidas,
169; subdued, ib.
Alexander the Great, 182;
education, 183; acces-
sion, ib.; overawes the
Thebans and Athenians,
184; generalissimo a-
gainst Persia, ib.; inter- Alexandria Ariorum, 195.
view with Diogenes, ib.; Alexandria in Egypt.
expedition against the founded, 192; descrip
Thracians, &c., ib.; re- tion of, ib.
duces the Thebans to Alpheus, 3.

obedience, 185; demands Ammon, Jove, 192.

the Athenian orators, Amphictyonic council, its
ib.; crosses to Asia, 186;
forces the passage of the
Granicus, 187: progress
through Asia Minor, ib.;
cuts the Gordian knot,

origin and constitution,
11, 12.
Amphictyons,

decree of

the, at the end of the
sacred war, 180.

188; dangerous illness, Amphipolis, 79, 176.
ib.; defeats the Persians Amyntas, 160.

ATHENIANS.

Aristodemus of Messenia,

24.

25.

Aristophanes, account of,

233.

Aristotle, 183; account of,

23S.

in, 18.
Aspasia, 79.
Asty, the, 87.

war

BOULE.

themselves with Thebes,
153; form a league with
Corinth and Argos a-
gainst Sparta, ib.; head
of a new confederacy,
162; declare war against
Sparta, ib. peace with
Sparta, 164; form an al-
liance with the Pelopon-
nesian states, 167; send
an embassy to Persia,
168; deceived by Philip,
176; send a fleet to re-
lieve Byzantium, 181;
their alarm at the ap-
proach of Philip, ib.;
prostrated by the battle
of Chæronea, ib.
Athens, its origin, 5, 6;
early constitution of, 29;
taken by the Persians,
63; second occupation
of, by the Persians, 67;
rebuilding of, 69; in.
cipient decline of, 77;
crowded state of, during
the Peloponnesian war,
100; plague at, 100, 101;
invested by the Pelopon-
nesians, 134; surrender
of, ib.; democracy re-
stored at, 138; descrip-
tion of the city, 85; ori-
gin of its name, 86; re-
built, 87; walls, ib.; har-
bours, SS; streets, &c.,
ib.; long walls rebuilt,
157; captured by Deine-
trius, 211.

Athena, 2; statue of, 92.
Athenians, divided into
four classes, 32; assist
the Ionians, 49;
with Ægina, 55; aban-
don Athens, 62; consti-
tution more democratic,
72; form an alliance with
Argos, 76; assist Inarus,
77; conquer Boeotia, ib.;
reduce Ægina, ib.; lose
their power in Boeotia,
ib.; despotic power of,
ib.; make peace with
Persia, ib.; conclude a
thirty years' truce with
Sparta, 78; subjugate
Samos, 81; form an alli-
ance with Corcyra, ib.;
their allies and resources
in the Peloponnesian
war, 99; their fleet an-
noys the Peloponnesus, Athos, Mount, canal at,57.
100; their decree against Attic tribes, four, 29; in-
the Mytileneans, 104; creased to ten, 36.
take Pylus, 106; expedi- Attica, 2; early history of,
tion against Boeotia, 108; 28; three factions in, 31.
peace of Nicias, 110; re-
fuse to evacuate Pylus,
111; treaty with Argos,
112; conquer Melos, 113;

ANACREON.

Anacreon, 226.

Anactorium, 44.

Anaxagoras, 236; charged Aristomenes of Messenia,

with impiety, 80.

Anaximander, 236.

Anaximenes, 236.

Andocides, 234.

Aniceris, 172.

Antigonias,
tribe, 210.

Antigonus, 206;

Antalcidas, peace of, 159. Arsinoë, 212.

against, 208;

Athenian Artaphernes, 48, 51.

Artaxerxes, 74, 141.

coalition Artemisia, her prowess, 64.
assumes Artemisium, battle of, 62.

the title of king, 210; Asia Minor, Greek colonies

slain, ib.

Antigonus Doson, 216.
Antigonus Gonatas, 214.
Antioch, founded by Se-
leucus, 211.
Antiochus, 130.
Antiochus Soter, 213.
Antiochus III., 219.
Antipater defeats the Spar-
tans, 202; defeated at
the Spercheus, 203, 204;
overthrows the allied!
Greeks at Crannon, 204;
demands the Athenian
orators, 205; declared
regent, 207; death, ib.
Antiphon, orator, 234.
Anytus, 140.
Apaturia, festival of, 132.
Apollonia, 44.
Aratus, 215.
Arbela, battle of, 193.
Arcadia, 2.

Arcadian

confederation,

167.

Archelaus, 175.

Archias, 161.

Archidamus, 100; besieges
Platea, 102.
Archilochus, 224.
Archon, Athenian, 29.
Areopagus reformed by

Pericles, 76; hill of, 96.
Arginusæ, battle of, 131.
Argolis, 3.
Argonauts, 7.

Argos, 3, 5, 18; head of a
new confederacy, 111.
Ariadne, 6.
Aræus, 145.
Arion, 225.
Aristagoras, 48.

Aristides, character of, 55;
organizes the confedera-
cy of Delos, 71; change
in his views, 72; death,
74.

massacre the inhabit- Babylon submits to Alex-
ants, ib.; interfere in Si-

ander, 194.

cilian affairs, 113; ex-

Barbarian, meaning of

pedition to Sicily, 115; the term, 11.
send a fresh fleet to Sic- Barca, 44.

ily, 119; defeated at sea Belus, temple of, 193.
by the Syracusans, 121; Bessus, 195; put to death,
retreat from Syracuse, 196.

ib.; gain a naval victory Bootarchs restored, 162.
at Cynossema, 127; at Boeotia, description of, 2.
Abydos, ib.; at Cyzicus, Bosporus, Athenian toll at
128; totally defeated at the, 128,
Egospotami, 133; ally Boulé, 9.

BRASIDAS.

Brasidas, 109; his expe-
dition into Thrace, ib. ;|
death, 110.
Brennus, 214.
Bucephala, founded by Al-
exander, 198.

Byzantines, erect a statue
in honour of Athens, 181.
Byzantium, 44; taken by
the Athenians, 70, 71;
besieged by Philip, 181.

Cyclades, 3.

Cylon, conspiracy of, 30.
Cynoscephalæ, battle of,

his re- 169.

Cyrus, empire of, 46; cap-
tures Sardis, ib.
Cyrus the younger, arrives
on the cost, 129; his
expedition against his
brother Artaxerxes, 141;
march, 142; slain, 145.
Cyzicus, 127; recovered by
the Athenians, 128.

Thrace, 109; flight and Cumæ, 41.
death, 110.
Cleophon, 128.
Cleruchi, 38, 79.
Clisthenes, 35;
forms, 36; their effect, Cyrene, 44.
38.
Clitus, saves Alexander's
life, 187; killed by Alex-
ander, 197.
Codrus, death of, 28.
Colchians, the, 143.
Colonies, Greek, 39; rela-
tion to the mother coun-
try, ib.; how founded,
ib.; mostly democratic,
ib.; in Asia Minor, 39,|
40; in Sicily, 42; in
Italy, ib.; in Gaul and Danaë, 5.
Spain, 44; in Africa, ib.; Danäi, 5.
in the Ionian Sea, ib.; in Danaus, 5.

Cadmea, or Theban cita-
del, seized by the Spar-
tans, 160; recovered,
162.

Cadmus, 5.

Callias, peace of, 164.
Callicrates, 220.
Callicratidas, 130.
Callippus, 173.
Callixenus, 132.

Cambunian Mountains, 1.
Cambyses, 46.
Carduchi, 147.
Carthaginians invade Sic-
ily, 66, 171.
Caryatides, 94.
Caspian Gates, 195.
Cassander, 208; establish-

es an oligarchy at Ath-
ens, ib.; takes Pydna,
ib.; kills Roxana and
her son, 209.
Catana, surprised by the
Athenians, 115.
Cecropidæ, 86.
Cecrops, 5.

Celts invade Macedonia,
213.
Cephissus, the, 86.

Ceramicus, the, 96.

Chabrias, 162.

Chærephon, 139.

Chæronea, second battle
of, 181.

Chalybes, the, 148.
Charon of Thebes, 161.
Chryselephantine statua-

ry, 92.

pedition of, ib.; extorts
the submission of the
Macedonians, 48; death,

55.

Darius

Codomanus, de-
feated by Alexander at
Issus, 189; overthrown
by Alexander at Arbela,
193; murdered, 195.

Macedonia and Thrace, Darius, 47; Thracian ex-
ib.; progress of, 79.
Comedy, old Attic, 233;
new, 234.
Conon, supersedes Alcibi-
ades, 130; defeated by
Callicratidas, 131; ac-
cepts the command of
the Persian fleet, 159;|
defeats the Spartan fleet
at Cnidus, 154; reduces Datis, 51.
the Spartan colonies, Decarchies, Spartan, 143.
157; rebuilds the long Decelea, 119.
walls of Athens, ib.
Corcyra, 44; troubles in,
104.

Corcyræans, quarrel with

Delium, Athenian expedi-
tion against, 108; battle
of, ib.

Delos, confederacy of, 71.

Corinth, 81; send an em- Delphi, temple of, 11; or-
bassy to Athens, ib.
Corinth, battle of, 154;
congress at, 184; de-
stroyed by Mummius,
221.
Corinthian Gulf, 2.

Cimon, son of Miltiades, Corinthian war, 153.
72; assists the Lacedæ- Corinthians assist the Epi-
monians, 75; banished, damnians, 81.
76; his sentence re- Coronea, battle of, 154.
voked, 77; expedition to Corupedion, battle of, 212.
Cyprus and death, ib.; Cranai, 86.

his patronage of art, 88. Crannon, battle of, 204.
Cirrhæan plain, 14.

Clearchus, 142, 145.

Craterus, 200.
Cratinus, 233.

acle, 15; taken by the
Phocians, 177.
Demades, 205.
Demaratus, 60.
Demetrias, Athenian tribe,
210.

Demetrius of Phalerus,
208; character of, 209;
retires to Thebes, ib.
Demetrius Poliorcetes, 209;
besieges Salamis, 210;
besieges Rhodes, ib.;
takes Athens, 211; king
of Macedon, ib.; death,
212.

DEMIURGI

Demiurgi, 6.
Demosthenes, general, 105,
108.

Demosthenes, orator, ac-
count of, 178; Philippics,
first, 179; Olynthiacs,
ih.; fights at Charonea,
181; his conduct after
Philip's death, 184; pro-
poses religious honours
for Philip's assassin,
ib.; exertions to rouse
Greece, 185; embassy to
Alexander, ib.; accused

Epaminondas, 161; his Granicus, battle of the
character, 163; embassy

187.

to Sparta, 164; military Greece, form of, 1; physi
genius of, 165; defeats cal features, 3; reduced
the Spartans at Leuctra, to a Roman province,
166; invades Laconia,

221.

167; establishes the Ar- Greek language, 11; his-
cadian confederation,
and restores the Messe-
nians, 167-8; saves the
Theban army, 169; res-
cues Pelopidas, ib.; last
invasion of Peloponne-
sus, 170; death of, ib.

by Eschines-speech on Ephesus, 41.
the Crown, 202; con- Ephialtes, 60.
demned of corruption, Ephialtes (the friend of
203; recalled from exile, Pericles), 76.

204; demanded by An- Ephors, 21; power of the,
tipater, 205; escapes to

ib.

Calaurea, ib.; death, ib.; Epicurean sect, 237.

character as an orator,

tory, early, ib.
Greeks, character of the,
3; causes which united
them, 11; disunion of,
of
the approach
celebrate
Xerxes, 58;
the battle of Salamis,
64; expedition of the
Ten Thousand, 142; re-
treat of, 147; arrive at
the Euxine, 149; at By-
zantium, ib.

Gylippus arrives in Sicily,
118; captures the fort of
Labdalum, ib.

Epicurus, 239.

235.

Epidamnus, 44, 81.

Dercyllidas, 150.

Epimenides, 31.

Diacrii, 31.

Epipolæ, 117.

Diæus, 221.

Epirus, 2.

Dicasteries, 76.

Erechtheum, 93.

Dinarchus, 236.

Diogenes, his interview

with Alexander, 184.

volt of, 126.

Euboea, 3; revolt from Hannibal, 217.

Athens, 78; second re- Harmodius and Aristogi

Dion, exiled, 172; takes Euclides, archon, 138.
Syracuse, ib.; assassin- Eumenes, 206.

ated, 173.

ton, conspiracy of, 35.

Harmosts, Spartan, 149.

Harpagus, 46.

Eumenides of Eschylus,

Harpalus, 202.

76.

Hecatæus, 49.

Helen, 7.

Heliæa, 37.

Hellanodicæ, 13.

Hellas, 1.

Hellenes, 1.

bridge over

Dionysius the elder, tyrant
of Syracuse, 171; death Eumolpidæ, 115.
and character, 172.
Dionysius the younger,
172; expelled by Dion,
ib.; retires to Corinth,
174.

Dionysus, theatre of, at
Athens, 95.

Diopithe, 180.

Eupatrida, 6; nature of
their government, 30.
Euphrates, surveyed by
order of Alexander, 201. Hellen, 4.
Euripides, account of, 233;
character as a poet, ib.

Eurotas, 3.

Eurybiades, 59.

Dithyramb, invention of Eurystheus, 6.
the, 225; the source of Evagoras, 15).
tragedy, ib.

Dorcis, 71.

Dorians, 4; in Pelopon-
nesus, 17; migrations of
the, ib.; three tribes of,

20.

Flamininus, T. Q., 219.
"Four Hundred," conspi-
racy of the, 225; put
down, 127.

Galatia, 214.
Gaugamela, battle of (v.
Arbela).

Hellenotamiæ, 71.
Hellespont,

the, 57.

Helots, condition of, 20;
revolt of, 75.

Hephæstion, marries Dry-
petis, 199; death, 200.
Heraclidæ, return of the,
17.

Hercules, 6.
Hermæ, mutilated, 114.
Hermolaus, 197.
Herodotus, 227; account
of his work, ib.
Heroes, 6.

Heroic age, 9; manners of,
ib.
Hesiod, 222.
Hiero of Syracuse, 226.
Hipparchus, assassinated,

Ecclesia, the, 37.

Egypt, its influence
Greece, 5.

Elis, 3.

Gelon of Syracuse, 58, 66.
on Geomori, 6, 29.

Gerusia, Spartan, 21.
Gordian knot, the, 188.

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