A

Achilles, 1–28

Acting, 156–62

Aelius Aristides, 227–36

• Sacred Tales, 228–9

Aeschylus

• Choephori, 61–2

Afghanistan, Greek culture in, 205–26

Agatharchides, 202–3

Alcaeus, 51–5, 59, 66, 68

Alexander the Great, 192, 205, 207, 209

Amphiaraos, 17, 19

Apollodoros, 211

• Epitome, 8

Arctinus

• Aithiopis, 5–6, 9, 25

Aristophanes

• Acharnians, 180, 182, 190

• Birds, 177, 179–80

• Clouds, 177–8, 185–6, 190–1

• Ecclesiazusae, 182

• Frogs, 179

• Knights, 178, 181, 190

• Peace, 180

  Wasps, 175–91

  Wealth, 177–8, 183, 186

Aristotle

• Nicomachean Ethics, 177, 182–3

• Rhetoric, 181–2

Arrian, 27, 203

Asangorna parchment, 224

Athenaeus, 31, 33–4, 36

Athenian justice, 175–91

Ausonius

• Wedding Cento, 237–50

B

Bactria, 209–12, 214, 215–16, 223–4

Battle of Raphia, 193–4, 197–8

Battle of Thermopylae, 106–15

Buddhism, 209–11, 216

Βυσσο-δομεύω, 163–5, 167–70, 173–4

C

Comparetti, Domenico, 244

Censuring, 243–4

Chalybes, 94, 95

Charaxus, 29–57, 65–7

Choral speeches, 153

Circle songs, 64

Codrus, 110, 113–14

Coin hoard, 207

Cosmas Indicopleustes

• Christian Topography, 195

Cross-culturalism, 205–26

D

De Gourmont, Remy, 244

Delphi, oracle at, 69–72, 74–5, 83, 113–14

Deictic pronouns, 158

Demetrios, 211–13

Deus ex machina , 154–5

Diodorus, 92, 111

Dioskouroi, 9, 17–20, 26–7

Dodona, oracle at, 70–90

Dodonaians, enquiries to the oracle, 75–6

Doricha, 29–40, 58, 67

Dracontius, 106–15

E

Elephant breeding, 194, 203–4

Elephant-carriers, 193, 197, 201

Elephant-hunting, 192–204

Ephorus of Cyme, 111

Epic, model for drama, 149–62

Erasmus

• The Institution of Marriage, 240

Estienne, Henri

• Parodiae morales, 241

Eukratidion, 207, 208

Euripides

• Andromache, 151

• Bacchae, 152

• Hekabe, 21

• Iphigenia in Tauris, 154

• Medea, 151, 153

Euthydemos, 211–13

Evelyn-White, Hugh, 244

G

Giraldi, Giglio Gregorio

• Stories about the Poets, 240–1

Glover, Terrot R., 244

Graeco-Bactrian kings, 198, 200

Graeco-Bactrian kingdom, 205–6, 210–11

Great Revolt of the Egyptians, 200–1

H

Heliodora, 222–3, 225–6

Heliodotos, 212–13, 225

Hellenistic Bactria, 207–8, 213, 223–5

Hellenistic east, 205–26

Herakles, 7, 9–11, 17, 19–20, 26–7

Hero-cult, 11, 13–20

Herodotus, 30–7, 39–40, 45, 65, 67, 69–72, 94, 111, 113

Heroization 1–28

Hesiod

• Theogony, 179

Homer, 149–62, 216, 220, 234

• Iliad, 3–5, 9, 26–7, 149, 150, 151–3, 155–8, 162, 167, 169, 171–3

• Odyssey, 4, 11, 16, 47, 60, 150, 153–4, 156–62, 164, 167, 169, 171–3

Homeric Hymn 33, 18

Horace

• Soracte Ode, 53–5

I

Immortalization, 1–28

India, Greek culture in, 205–26

Indo-Greek kings, 200, 211

Indo-Greek kingdom, 205–6, 210

Inscriptions

• Administrative texts, 206, 223–6

• Delphic Maxims, 206, 214–19, 225–6

• Funerary epigram for Sophytos, 206, 219–21, 225–6

• Pillar of Heliodora, 206, 222–3, 225–6

• In honour of Euthydemos I and Demetrios, 206, 211–13, 225–6

Ivory trade, 202–3

J

Justinus

• Epitome, 211

K

Kallimachos

• Hecale, 220

Kineas, 215–16, 218

Klearchos, 215–18

L

Larichus, 39–40, 43–6, 50, 52–3, 55, 66

Lead question tablets, 70–90

Leonidas, 106–11, 113–15

Livy

• History of Rome, 249

Lucian, 13–14, 17, 109

Luxorius

• Epithalamium for Fridus, 239

M

Meibom, Heinrich, 241–3

Menoeceus, 110, 113–14

Messenger-speech, 151–2

Metaphors, 163–74

Mimnermus

• Smyrneis, 233–4

Mind, metaphorical concept of, 163–74

Mir Zakah II, 207

Monologues, 151

Mossynoikoi, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99–100, 102, 104–5

Myth, 1–28

N

Nightingale, Florence, 115

O

Oracles, 69–90

Over-hunting of elephants, 194, 201–4

P

Pasquier, Etienne

• Researches on France, 241

Periplus Maris Rubri , 202

Philodikia , 180

Philostratos

• Heroikos, 12–13, 21

Pindar, 216, 234

Plato

• Gorgias, 188, 231

• Ion, 157

• Protagoras, 231

• Republic, 156–7, 175, 183, 187–8

Pliny the Elder, 202

Plutarch, 74

• On the Fortune of Alexander, 209

• Precepts of Statecraft, 210

Polybius, 197

Posidippus, 31–7

Private enquiries to oracles, 75, 77–88

Proba

• Cento, 239–41, 245

Prologue speech, 152–3

Prudentius

• Peristephanon 14, 248

Pseudo-Hesiod

• Shield of Heracles, 163–4, 169, 172

Ptolemies, 192–204

Public enquiries to oracles, 75–7

R

Rape, 237, 245–50

Rhapsodes , 157–9

Rutilius Namatianus

• On His Way Home, 250

S

Sapphic circle, 63–4

Sappho, 29–68

Scaliger, Julius Caesar

• Poetice, 241

Scopelianus, 234

Seleucids, 193–4, 197–200, 204, 207, 209, 212

Seneca the Elder, 109

Silent characters, 155

Silver tetradrachm, 223

Sogdiana, 209, 214

Sophocles

• Electra, 60–1

Sōphrosynē, 175–91

Sophytos, 219–21, 225–6

Sound-mindedness, 175–91

Sparta, 107–9, 113

Spartan mirage, 107

Storm metaphor, 51–2

Strabo, 33, 211–12

T

Temperance, 175–91

Theognis, 176

Thucydides, 69–71, 188

Ticket oracles, 88–9

Tis -speeches, 153

Tragedy, 149–62

Trapezus to Kotyora, 91–2, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98–100, 101

V

Valerius Maximus, 108

Virgil

• Aeneid, 237, 248–9

• Eclogues, 237

• Georgics, 237

W

Whistling, 102–5

Women's prayers, 29, 59–64, 68

X

Xenophon, 231

• Anabasis, 91–105