Hippias, 35; expelled from Laurium, silver mines at, Athens, 36.
Histiæus of Miletus, 48; Leonidas, 59; his death,
crucified, 50.
History, rise of, 227.
Homer, 222; his identity, Leontiades, 160.
Lyric poetry, 224; occa- Menander, 234. sions of, ib.; develop- Menelaus, 7. ment of, 226.
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.
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.
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,
Enophyta, battle of, 77. Oligarchy, 27. Olympia, 3. Olympiad, first, 4.
Olympias murdered, 208. Olympic games, 12.
Olynthiac orations of De-
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.
Olynthus, 1593; taken by Penj-ab, the, 197.
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.
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
Phocion, 179; refuses Alex- Pyrrhus, 211; becomes ander's presents, 186; king of Macedonia, 212. accusation and death, Pythagoras, 42, 237.
Pythia, 15. Pythian games, 14.
(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,
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.
Pleistoanax, 78. Pnyx, the, 86, 96. Poecile Stoa, the, 239. Poetry, Greek, 222. Polemarch, 29. Polybius, 219.
Polycrates of Samos, 46.
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.
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
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, 238.
Sphacteria,
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.
the Spartans, 162; de- clared head of Greece by the Persians, 169; de- stroyed, 185; restored by Cassander, 208.
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,!
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,
"Table Companions," the, Thesmothetæ, 29, 30.
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.
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-]
against Philip, 181; humbled by Philip, 182;| rise against the Macedo- nians, 185.
Thebes, 2; liberated from Tiribazus, 158.
Zea, 88. Zeno, 239. Zeugitæ, £2.
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