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.
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.
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,
the, at the end of the sacred war, 180.
188; dangerous illness, Amphipolis, 79, 176. ib.; defeats the Persians Amyntas, 160.
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.
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.
in, 18. Aspasia, 79. Asty, the, 87.
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;
massacre the inhabit- Babylon submits to Alex- ants, ib.; interfere in Si-
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, 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.
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.
Chærephon, 139.
Chæronea, second battle of, 181.
Chalybes, the, 148. Charon of Thebes, 161. Chryselephantine statua-
Cylon, conspiracy of, 30. Cynoscephalæ, battle of,
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.
pedition of, ib.; extorts the submission of the Macedonians, 48; death,
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.
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.
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, 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
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
Dithyramb, invention of Eurystheus, 6. the, 225; the source of Evagoras, 15). tragedy, ib.
Dorians, 4; in Pelopon- nesus, 17; migrations of the, ib.; three tribes of,
Flamininus, T. Q., 219. "Four Hundred," conspi- racy of the, 225; put down, 127.
Galatia, 214. Gaugamela, battle of (v. Arbela).
Gelon of Syracuse, 58, 66. on Geomori, 6, 29.
Gerusia, Spartan, 21. Gordian knot, the, 188.
Hellenotamiæ, 71. Hellespont,
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,
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