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Hippias, 35; expelled from Laurium, silver mines at,
Athens, 36.

55.

Histiæus of Miletus, 48; Leonidas, 59; his death,

crucified, 50.

History, rise of, 227.

61.

Homer, 222; his identity, Leontiades, 160.

223; date, ib.

Leonnatus, 204.

Leosthenes, 203.

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Lyric poetry, 224; occa- Menander, 234.
sions of, ib.; develop- Menelaus, 7.
ment of, 226.

Menon, 147.

Lysander, appointed Na- Mespila, 147.

varchus, 129; intrusted Messene founded, 168.
by Cyrus with his sa- Messenia, 3.
trapy, 132; his proceed- Messenian war, first, 24;
ings after the victory of second, 25; third, 75.
Egospotami, 133; block-Messenians conquered by
ades Piræus, ib.; takes the Spartans, 24; sub-
possession of Athens, jugated, 26.

134; establishes the Metellus, 221.

Thirty Tyrants, 135; Miletus, fall of, 50.

triumph, ib.; honours, Miltiades, 52; accusation
137; re-enters Athens, and death of, 55.

ib.; his ambitious Mindarus, 127.
schemes, 150; despatch- Minos, 6, 7.
ed to the Hellespont, Minotaur, 6.
151; expedition into Bœ- Morea, 2.
otia, 153; slain, ib.

as- Lysias, 234.
Lysimachus,
slain, 212.

M.

206, 210;

Macedonia, description of,
175.

Lacedæmonians (v. Spar- Macedonian empire, parti-

ta).
Lachares, 211.

Laconia, 3; reduced by the
Spartans, 24; northern
frontier of, 26.
Ladé, battle of, 50.
Lamachus, 114.
Lamian war, 204.

Lampsacus, 133.

Larissa, 147.

tion of, 206; overthrow,
220.

Macedonians, their origin,
175.
Macrones, the, 148.
Magna Græcia, 42.
Malli, the, 198.

Mantinea, battle of, 113;
third battle of, 218.
Marathon, battle of, 53.

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PERSIANS.

NICEA.
Nicaea, founded by Alex- ment of, 72; conviction
ander, 198.
and death, ib.
Nicias, 107; concludes a Pausanias (second), 137;
peace with Sparta, 110; expedition into Boeotia,
appointed commander in
153; condemned to
Sicily, 114; his dilatory death, ib.
proceedings there, 118; Pausanias
desponding situation of, Philip, 182.
119; indecision, ib.; sur- Pedieis, 31.
render, 122; death, ib.;
character, ib.
Niké Apteros, temple of,

88.

Nineveh, 147.
Nobles, 9.

0.

Enophyta, battle of, 77.
Oligarchy, 27.
Olympia, 3.
Olympiad, first, 4.

Olympias murdered, 208.
Olympic games, 12.

Olynthiac orations of De-

assassinates

PHOCIANS.

the Grecian states, ib.;
second invasion of
Greece, ib.; land at
Marathon, 52; third in.
vasion of Greece, 57;
their number under
Xerxes, ib.; destruction
of their fleet by a storm,
61; their progress, 62;
attack Delphi, 63; take
Athens, ib.; retreat of,
66.

Pelasgians, 4.
Pelopidas, character of,
161; gains a victory at
Tegyra, 163; subdues Phalanx, Macedonian, 176.
Alexander of Pheræ, Phalerum, 88.

168; imprisoned by Alex- Phidias accused of pecula.
ander, 169; defeats Alex- tion, 80.
ander, ib.; slain, ib.
Peloponnesian confede- Philip of Macedon, carried

racy, meeting of, 82;
decides for war against
Athens, ib.; war, com-
mencement of, ib.; in-
vasion of Attica, 99;
Thucydides' character of
the war, 228.
Peloponnesus, 2.

Olynthian confederacy dis- Pelops, 5.

Peneus, 2.

Olynthus, 1593; taken by Penj-ab, the, 197.

mosthenes, 179.

solved, 160.

the Spartans, 160.

Onomarchus, 177.

Opuntian Locrians, 152.

de-

Orators, Athenian,

manded by Alexander,
185; ten Attic, 234.
Oratory, Greek, rise and
progress of, 234.
Orchomenos, 163.
Ortygia, 116.

Ostracism, introduced by
Clisthenes, 37.
Oxyartes, 196.

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Pentacosiomedimni, 32.
Pentathlum, 13.
Perdiccas, 82.
Perdiccas

(Alexander's
general), 206; marches
against Ptolemy, 207;
assassinated, ib.
Pericles, character of, 76;|
innovations of, ib.; his
administration, ib.; re-
duces Euboea, 78; plans
for adorning Athens, ib.
pleads for Aspasia, 80;
funeral oration by, 100;
accused of peculation,
101; death and charac-
ter, 102.

Pericles, age of, character
of art in, 88.
Perinthus, siege of, 181.
Perioci, 20.
Peripatetics, 237.

put to Persepolis,

death by Alexander, 196.
Parnassus, Mount, 2.
Parthenon, 90.
Parysatis, Queen, 146, 152.
Pasargadæ, 194.
Paulus, L. Æm., 220.
Pausanias, King of Sparts,
vanity and treason of,
71; recall and impeach-

taken and
burnt by Alexander,
194.

;|

Philemon, 234.

to Thebes as a hostage,
168; education of, 175;
character, 176; defeats
the Illyrians, ib.; takes
Amphipolis and Pydna,
ib.; takes part in the
sacred war, 178; reduces
Thessaly, ih.; expedi
tion into Thrace, 180;
takes Olynthus, 179; oc-
cupies Delphi, 180;
second expedition into
Thrace, 181; compelled
to evacuate the Cherso-
nese, ib.; defeats the
Thebans and Athenians
at Chæronea, ib.; his
conduct after the battle,
182; clemency towards
Athens, ib.; appointed
generalissimo against
Persia, ib.; assassin-
ated, ib.; character, ib.
Philip IV., 211.
Philip V., 216; assists the
Achæans, 217; forms an
alliance with Hannibal,
ib.; defeated by the
Romans, 218.

Philip Arrhidæus, 206.
Philippi founded, 177.
Philippics of Demog
thenes, 178; first, 179.
Philomelus, 177; slain, ib.
Philopomen, 218; takes
Sparta, 219; taken and
put to death, ib.
Philosophy, Greek, origin
of, 236; Ionic school of,
ib.; Eleatic school, ib.;
Greeks, 50; invade Pythagorean school,
Greece, 51; demand 237; various schools, ib.
earth and water from Phocians, 177.

Perseus, 219; defeated by
the Romans, 220.
Persians, 45; their cruel-
ties towards the Ionic

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Phocion, 179; refuses Alex- Pyrrhus, 211; becomes
ander's presents, 186; king of Macedonia, 212.
accusation and death, Pythagoras, 42, 237.

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Pythia, 15.
Pythian games, 14.

R.

(dramatist), Rhapsodists, 223.
Rhegium, 42.

account of, 230.
Phyllidas, 161.
Pinacotheca, 90.
Pindar, account of, 226;
his house spared by
Alexander, 185.
Pindus, Mount, 2.
Piræus fortified, 70.
Pisa, 3.

Pisander, 152.

Pisistratus, usurpation of,
33; his stratagem, ib.;
his death, 34; his char-
acter, 35.

Plague at Athens, 100.

Rhodes, 3; siege of, 210.
Romans, direct their at-
tention towards Greece,
218; declare war against
Philip V., ib.; proclaim
the freedom of Greece,
219; declare war against
Perseus, 220.

Roxana, married by Alex-
ander, 106; murdered,

203.

S.

Plata, battle of, 67; sur-Sacred Band, Theban, 162.
prised, 82; besieged by Sacred war, 177.
the Peloponnesians, 102; Salamis, acquired by the
surrenders, 103; destroy- Athenians, 31; battle of,
ed, ib.; restored by the 64.
Lacedæmonians, 159; Salamis (in Cyprus), battle
again destroyed by the of, 210.
Thebans, 164.
Samos, revolt of, 81; sub-
Platæans join the Athe- dued, ib.; its importance
nians, 52.
to Athens, 124; revolu-
tions at. 126.

Plato visits Sicily, 172;
sold as a slave, ib.; Sappho, 225.
second visit to Sicily, Sardis, 45; burnt, 49.
ib.; life of, 237; philos- Scarphea, battle of, 221.

ophy, ib.

Pleistoanax, 78.
Pnyx, the, 86, 96.
Poecile Stoa, the, 239.
Poetry, Greek, 222.
Polemarch, 29.
Polybius, 219.

Polycrates of Samos, 46.

Scione, 109.

Scythini, the, 148.
Seleucus, 207; founds An-
tioch, 211; succeeds to
the greater part of the
Macedonian empire, 213;
assassinated, ib.
Sellasia, battle of, 216.

Polysperchon, 207; expe- Selymbria, 44.
dition to Peloponnesus,
ib.
Porus, 197.
Potidæa, 176.

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Sestos, reduced by the
Athenians, 68.
Sicilian expedition, 114;
termination of, 122.
Simonides of Ceos, 226.
Sisygambis, 190.
Slaves, 9.

Social war, 177; ill effects
of the, ib.; second, 217.
Socrates at Delium, 108;

opposes the condemna-
tion of the ten generals,
132; sketch of his life,
138; his teaching and

SPARTANS.

method, 139; wisdom of
ib.; unpopularity and
indictment of, ib.; con-
demned 140; refuses to
escape, ib.; death, ib.
Sogdiana, fortress of,
taken, 196.

Solon, 30; legislation of,

31.
Sophocles, account of, 232;
character as a poet, ib.
Sparta, 18; landed prop
erty in, 23; earthquake
at, 75; allies of in the
Peloponnesian war, 99;
league against, 153; con-
gress at, 164; rapid fall
of, 167; taken by Anti-
gonus Doson, 216; taken
by Philopomen, 219.
Spartan constitution, 20;
tribes, ib.; education.
22; women, 23; money,
ib.

Spartans, make war on
Arcadia, 24; alone re-
tain their kings, 27;
overthrow the despots,
28; conduct of, at Ther-
mopylæ, 60; selfish con-
duct of, 62; dismiss the
Athenians, 75; oppose
the Athenians in Boo-
tia, 77; invade Attica,
99; send an embassy to
Athens, 100; invade Ar-
gos, 113; force the Ar-
gives to an alliance, ib.;
establish themselves at
Decelea, 119; assist the
Phocians against the
Thebans, 153; defeated
at Haliartus, ib.; pro-
claim the independence
of the Boeotian cities,
159; garrison Orchome-
nus and Thespiæ, ib.;
assist Amyntas against
the Olynthians, 160;
height of their power,
ib.; expelled from Boo
tia, 164; solicit the aid
of the Athenians, 168;
send an embassy to Per-
sia, ib.; excluded from
the Amphictyonic coun-
cil, 180; attempt to
throw off the Macedonian
yoke, 202; their decline
and degradation, 215;
call in the Romans, 220.

SPEUSIPPUS.

Speusippus, 238.

Sphacteria,

blockaded,

106; captured 108.
porades, 3.

Statira, 190, 199; murder-
ed by Roxana, 206.
Stoics, 237.

Strategi, Athenian, 101.
Stratonice, 211.

Susa, treasures at, 194.
Sybaris, its luxury, 42; de-
stroyed, ib.
Sybarites, 79.

Syntaxis, the, 162.

Syracusans, their vigorous
defence, 116.

Syracuse, 42; description
of 116; naval battle at,
118; engagement in the
Great Harbour of, 121;
constitution of, 171.

Syssitia, 22.

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the Spartans, 162; de-
clared head of Greece by
the Persians, 169; de-
stroyed, 185; restored by
Cassander, 208.

ZEUGITE

Tissaphernes, 124, 127,
146; attacks the Ioniau
cities, 150; beheaded,
152.
Tithraustes, 152.
Themistocles, proposes a Tolmides, 78.
fleet, 55; his character, Torone, 109.

ib.; his advice to fight Tragedy, Greek, origin of,
at Salamis, 63; his strat- 230.

agem to bring on an en- Trapezus, 148.
gagement, 64; his mes- Trilogies, 231.

sage to Xerxes, ib.; re- Triparadisus, treaty of,
warded by the Spartans,!

207.

66; his views, 70; goes Trojan expedition, 7.
ambassador to Sparta, Troy captured, S.

ib.; corruption of, 73; Tyrant, value of the term,
ostracised, ib.; flight, 27.

ib.; reception in Persia, Tyre, besieged by Alex-
ib.; death, 74.
ander, 191.
Theramenes, 126, 132, 135; Tyrtæus, 25, 224.

his death, 136.

Thermopylæ, 2; pass of,

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"Table Companions," the, Thesmothetæ, 29, 30.

145.

Tænarum, 3.

Tarentum, 43.
Taygetus, Mount, 3.
Tempe, 2.
"Ten Thousand," expedi-
tion and retreat of the,
142.

"Ten Thousand," the Ar-
cadian, 167.
Thais, 194.

Thales of Miletus, 236.
Thasos, reduced, 75.
Thebans, surprise Platea,

Thessalus, 115.
Thessaly, 2.
Thetes, 9, 32, 73.
Thimbron, 148, 150.
Thirty years' truce, 78.
Thirty Tyrants at Athens,
135; proscription of the,
136; defeated by Thra-
sybulus, 137; deposed by
the Spartans, 138.
Thrasybulus, 126; takes
Phylé, 137; seizes Pi-
ræus, ib; defeats the
Thirty, ib.

82; expel King Agesi-
laus from Aulis, 151; in-Thrasyllus, 126.

vade Phocis, 152; form Thucydides (the historian),

an alliance with Athens,
153; forced into the

Lacedæmonian alliance,

in Thrace, 109; banish-
ed, ib.; account of, 228;
his history, ib.

160; rise of their as- Thurii, 79.

cendency, 166; defeated Timocrates, 152.

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Xanthippus, 55; recovers
the Thracian Cherso-
nese, 68.
Xenophanes, 236.
Xenophon, account of, 229;
his works, ib.; accom-
panies Cyrus, 142; sa-
luted General of the Ten
Thousand, 147; returns
to Athens, 148; joins
Agesilaus, ib.
Xerxes, character of, 56;
subdues Egypt, ib.;
marches towards Greece,
57; reviews his troops,
ib.; crosses the Helles-
pont, ib.; number of his
host, ib.; takes Athens,
63; his alarm and re
treat, C5.

by Alexander of Pheræ, Timoleon, character of, Xuthus, 4.

169; ally themselves 173; expedition to Sic-]

with the Athenians

against Philip, 181;
humbled by Philip, 182;|
rise against the Macedo-
nians, 185.

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Thebes, 2; liberated from Tiribazus, 158.

Zea, 88.
Zeno, 239.
Zeugitæ, £2.

THE END.

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