Read The Classical World Online
Authors: Robin Lane Fox
Hyacinthus,
52
Hyginus,
434
Ilion,
see
Troy
Indus (river),
211
Ion of Chios,
153
Ionia, Ionians,
60
,
78
, ch.
7
passim
,
101
; Ionian Revolt,
103
–4; Persian conquest of,
116
Ionic: dialect,
29
,
80
; architecture,
81
Ireland,
512
Iris,
429
Isagoras,
93
‘iso-cracy’,
129
isonomia
,
91
Isthmian Games,
317
Italica,
513
Ithaca,
30
ius divinum
,
291
Janus,
290
Jason (Thessalian tyrant),
184
,
217
Jerusalem,
331
,
355
,
459
,
526
,
528
,
591
Jews, Judaea,
100
–101,
270
,
331
,
355
,
396
,
492
,
521
–3, ch.
47
passim
,
535
,
539
,
540
,
579
,
591
Julia (daughter of Augustus),
451
,
476
,
482
Julia (daughter of Caesar),
377
,
382
,
400
Julia (granddaughter of Augustus),
483
Julio-Claudians,
476
–7, ch.
44
passim
,
532
Juno,
309
Juvenal,
2
Kale Akte,
129
Kandahar,
268
Khazars,
70
King’s Peace,
179
kithara
,
46
Kition,
128
Knights: Spartan,
75
,
107
; Roman,
see equites
komoi
,
61
Koumi,
30
;
see also
Cumae
Kourion,
103
Laberius,
400
Lamia,
250
Lampedusa,
114
Lares
,
480
Larnaca,
31
Last Judgement,
531
Lavinium,
274
lawgivers, ch.
5
passim
,
71
,
74
,
77
,
90
,
126
,
161
Lentulus,
390
Lepidus, M. Aemilius,
348
,
354
,
415
,
481
Leucas,
428
Leucippus,
138
Levantines,
31
,
103
,
118
;
see also
Phoenicians
Liberty, temple to,
309
,
340
,
402
Lincoln,
471
Lindos,
78
literacy: Greek,
16
,
19
,
35
,
152
; Roman,
148
,
470
Livia (wife of Octavian),
425
,
432
,
477
–8,
490
,
495
,
498
Locris,
190
logic,
206
Lucan,
511
Lucanians,
286
Lucca,
381
Lucretii Valentes,
557
Lucretius,
388
Lupercalia,
293
–4
Luperci,
404
Lyceum,
201
lyric poetry,
80
Lyons,
495
Lysias,
145
Maccabean Revolt,
331
Macedo,
568
Macedon,
181
,
190
–91, ch.
18
passim
,
220
,
246
–7,
336
,
436
Macer,
352
Maeander,
85
magistracies: Greek,
42
,
63
–4,
131
; at Sparta,
90
; at Rome,
345
,
443
–4
Magna Graecia (‘Great Greece’),
114
,
116
,
285
,
299
Magnesia,
318
Mago,
307
Maharbal,
307
Makedon,
194
Mamertines,
299
–300
Mani,
579
Mantineans,
179
manumission,
446
Marathon (battle), ch.
9
passim
,
130
,
131
Marcellus (nephew of Augustus),
436
–7,
461
–2
Marcellus, Claudius,
310
Marcellus, Marcus,
400
Marciana (sister of Trajan),
576
Maroboduus,
469
marriage: among Greek aristocrats,
39
,
46
; at Sparta,
75
–6,
82
; at Rome,
119
,
446
,
447
Masinissa,
311
Massilia (modern Marseilles),
34
,
83
,
281
Mastarna,
120
Mausoleum: of Ptolemy IV,
244
; of Cleopatra,
429
; of Octavian,
433
; of Hadrian,
593
‘Median grass’,
133
Megacles,
131
Megara, Megarians,
91
,
130
,
160
–61,
396
,
421
Megasthenes,
271
Melanthus,
104
Melanthius,
104
Meletus,
174
Melos,
159
Memnon,
19
Menander (dramatist),
218
,
265
,
391
Menander (king of Bactria),
272
Menelaus,
22
Messenia, Messenians,
72
,
74
,
76
,
77
,
130
,
161
,
180
Messina,
299
Metaurus (river),
311
metoikoi, see
metics
Michaelmas daisies,
290
Milan,
560
Minoan Age,
18
Misenum, Cape,
424
Mithridates (king of Pontus),
338
–9,
343
–4,
349
,
355
,
372
Moschion,
217
Moses,
270
mothakes
,
70
mounarchoi
,
58
Mucianus,
78
Munda,
400
municipia
,
519
Mutina (modern Modena),
413
–14,
424
Mycale: Mount,
103
; battle of,
104
,
107
Mycenaean Age,
18
,
29
; palaces,
19
,
24
,
28
,
39
; script,
18
Myriad (Arcadian Assembly),
180
,
183
Myrto,
250
Naevoleia Tycho,
557
Naples,
see
Neapolis
naukraroi
,
41
Nazis,
583
Neaera,
189
–90
Neapolis (modern Naples),
118
,
282
Nearchus,
236
Neleids,
39
Nemean Games,
67
neo-Platonism,
203
Nero,
454
,
461
,
462
,
466
,
496
–500,
533
–4; and Christians,
528
–9; in Suetonius,
582
Nestus (river),
196
New Carthage (modern Cartagena),
302
Nicomedes (king of Bithynia),
372
,
399
nobiles
,
289
Nobilior, Fulvius,
326
Nocturnal Council,
205
Nysa (mountain),
257
obai
,
72
Octavia (wife of Antony),
419
,
424
,
425
Octavian,
400
,
410
–16,
419
–30, ch.
39
passim; see also
Augustus
October Horse,
293
Odeon: of Pericles,
157
; of Agrippa,
514
Odysseus, ch.
1
passim
,
29
,
30
,
35
,
42
,
70
,
592
,
594
Odyssey
, ch.
1
passim
,
24
,
142
,
326
oligarchy,
93
,
97
,
98
,
135
–6,
147
–8,
161
,
165
,
182
,
214
Olympias (mother of Alexander the Great),
195
,
235
,
249
Olympic Games,
43
,
67
,
131
,
193
,
194
,
196
,
453
Olympus (doctor),
429
Olynthus,
176
Opimius,
342
opium poppy,
268
Oplontis,
557
optimates
,
342
oracles,
33
,
37
,
51
,
57
;
see also
Delphi, Sibylline oracles
Orchomenus,
185
Orestes,
88
–9
Oropus,
224
Orpheus,
115
Oscan,
554
ō
thismos
,
61
Otho,
533
Otranto, Straits of,
30