Read The Classical World Online
Authors: Robin Lane Fox
Dicaeopolis,
186
Didyma, oracle of Apollo
33
,
57
,
84
,
248
dignitas
,
370
Dio Cassius,
580
Diocles, Gaius Appuleius,
455
Diocletian,
454
Dion (uncle of the younger Dionysius),
209
–10
Dion (town),
194
Dionysius (elder tyrant of Syracuse),
202
,
209
Dionysius (younger tyrant of Syracuse),
202
Dionysus,
50
,
54
,
71
,
230
,
271
,
292
,
423
,
430
; festival for,
147
; in Euripides’
Bacchae
,
164
,
195
; linked to the Ptolemies,
256
–7,
261
; revels for,
61
,
142
; Theatre of,
217
divisores
,
351
Dodona,
57
Domitian,
453
,
455
,
461
,
542
–4
563
–4
Domitilla,
535
dormice,
385
Draco,
64
drama: Athenian tragedy,
130
,
137
,
146
–8,
217
,
250
; comedy,
116
,
131
,
137
,
148
–9,
158
,
217
–18; at Rome,
326
,
452
–3
Dreros,
64
drought,
32
Drusus, Livius,
425
Drusus (stepson of Augustus),
477
,
478
Drusus (adopted grandson of Augustus),
490
Ducetius,
129
Dunbabin, T. J.,
114
Dura,
253
Duris of Samos,
282
duumviri
,
554
education: in Greek society,
74
–5,
188
Egnatius Rufus,
438
Egypt: site of Greek settlements,
32
,
34
; hoplites in,
80
; and Persia,
128
; under the Ptolemies,
244
, ch. 23
passim
,
269
–70; under Cleopatra,
422
–30; Roman Egypt,
431
–2
Einhard,
582
Elamites,
99
Elbe (river),
469
Elchasai,
579
Elea,
117
elephants (used in war),
256
; used by Alexander,
247
; used by Hannibal,
297
,
301
,
305
,
306
; used by Pyrrhus,
296
–8
Eleusinian Mysteries,
145
,
146
,
173
,
590
Elis,
42
Elysian fields,
50
Emerita (modern Merida),
457
,
514
Emporion,
34
Ennius,
326
ephebo-philia
,
44
epic: Homeric, ch. 1
passim
; gods in epic,
49
; Roman epic,
326
,
438
Epictetus,
595
–6
Epicurus, Epicureanism,
250
,
265
,
388
,
589
,
596
Epidemics
,
138
Erasistratus,
260
Eratosthenes,
259
Eretria,
104
Erianthus,
178
Erichthonius,
146
Erinna,
81
Etna, Mount,
112
Etruscans,
35
,
36
,
83
,
87
,
117
–120,
455
,
456
Euboea, Euboeans,
30
–31,
35
,
98
,
118
Euclid,
259
Eudoxus,
177
Eumachia,
557
Eumenes (king of Pergamum),
318
Eumenes (secretary of Alexander the Great),
243
,
244
,
247
–8
eunomia
,
73
Euripides,
149
,
164
,
195
,
217
,
268
,
269
Euphrates (river),
253
Eurydice (wife of Amyntas III),
191
Eurydice (wife of Philip of Macedon),
see
Cleopatra
Eurymedon (river),
128
Ezra, Book of,
100
Fabius Eupor,
556
Fabius Maximus, Paullus,
489
–90
Fabius Maximus, Quintus,
303
,
304
,
310
,
311
Fabius Pictor,
326
Fair Cliff,
302
Faesulae (modern Fiesole),
345
,
445
fasti
,
275
Fayyum,
267
Felix (governor of Judaea),
522
festiales
,
295
festivals: Greek,
20
,
53
,
146
,
187
,
220
; Roman,
293
,
465
Field of Mars,
see
Campus Martius
Finisterre,
435
Flaccus, Fulvius,
310
Flamininus,
317
Flavians, ch.
48
passim
Flora, festival of,
294
Flora (mistress of Pompey),
354
Forms, theory of,
203
Forum,
118
,
293
,
309
,
399
,
457
,
482
; of Trajan,
577
Forum Boarium,
309
Fregellae,
341
Fucine Lake,
494
funerals: Roman,
289
Gabinius,
421
Gaius,
see
Caligula
Galba,
533
–4
Gallio (brother of Seneca),
527
–8
Gallus, Cornelius,
431
–2
Ganymede,
52
Gaul, Gauls,
303
,
371
,
377
,
379
,
390
,
467
,
508
,
512
,
515
,
534
; raid Rome,
275
Gelon,
111
–12
gen
ā
,
40
gentes
,
119
;
see also
tribes
Germany, Germans,
382
,
469
,
534
; horseguards,
467
–8,
480
; in Tacitus,
583
Gerousia,
72
Gessius Florus,
522
Getty Museum,
259
Glaphyra,
422
gliraria
,
385
Gloucester,
471
gods: Greek, ch.
4
passim
,
71
,
182
–3; in Herodotus,
139
–40; divine justice,
51
,
157
,
166
; Roman,
290
–98
Gongyla,
82
Gortyn, laws of,
65
–6
‘Gospel of Light’,
579
Gospels, ch.
47
passim
Gracchus, Gaius,
340
–42
Gracchus, Tiberius (the elder),
309
Gracchus, Tiberius (the younger),
340
–42
Granius Marcellus,
571
gravitas
,
289
Great Fire of Rome,
497
,
528
,
539
Great Greece,
see
Magna Graecia
gymnasiums,
266
Hadrian,
2
–6,
464
,
471
,
502
,
513
,
588
–97; ‘adoption’ of,
580
; at Cyrene,
37
; poetic taste,
17
; at Sparta,
70
; visits to Sicily,
112
Haloa,
53
Hamilcar,
112
Hannibal,
297
,
301
,
302
, ch.
28
passim
,
315
Hannibalic War, ch.
28
passim
,
330
Hanno,
301
Hansen, M. H.,
94
Hanson, Victor,
106
Hearth, goddess of the,
34
,
275
,
292
,
441
Hecate,
55
Hecataeus of Abdera,
270
Helen,
22
Hellas,
28
Hellenic Alliance,
106
,
129
–33; of Philip,
197
–8,
237
Hellenic League,
155
Hellenization,
326
–7
helots,
70
–78,
108
,
129
–32,
162
,
180
Helvetii,
379
Helvidius,
541
Helvius Sabinus,
554
Hephaestion,
4
,
235
,
239
,
242
,
253
,
590
Hephaestus,
22
Heraclea (Black Sea),
210
Heraclitus,
84
Hermeias,
202
Hermotimus,
150
hero cult,
50
Herod Antipas,
524
Herod the Great,
419
–20,
521
,
523
Herodotus,
17
,
138
–41,
145
,
166
,
268
,
590
–91; accounts of Cyrus’ death,
100
; on Persians,
105
; on Themistocles,
109
Herophilus,
260
Hesiod,
19
,
21
,
31
; on aristocrats,
41
,
62
–3; on Hecate,
55
; on the ‘just city’,
58
hetaireiai
,
61
Hieronymus of Cardia,
299
Himera,
112
Hippias,
171
–2
Hippocrates (doctor),
85
Hippocrates of Chios,
138
Hippocratic Oath,
85
–6
Hippodamus,
176
–7
Hippolochus,
266
Hippolytus,
268
histori
ā
,
138
Homer, ch.
1
passim;
death in,
49
; dialect,
17
,
80
; reciprocity in,
47
; rhetoric in,
42
homoioi
,
76
homosexuality: in Greek society,
4
,
44
–5,
89
,
173
,
181
; Plato on,
204
; at Rome,
288
–9,
327
hoplites,
59
–66,
80
–81,
115
,
117
,
126
; at Marathon,
105
; Spartan use of,
71
,
74
,
104
,
105
,
162
Hortensius,
352
hospitals,
470
hubris
,
70