by Oswyn Murray
Black Sea 103, 193
Boeotia 90
boulē see council
boustrophēdon 183
Branchidai 233, 243, 256
Burckhardt, Jacob 202, 205, 244
burial customs 12, 36, 65
Byblos 86
Byzantium 104
Calydon 152
Cambyses 253
Carians 128, 232, 234f, 252, 259
Carthage 72, 110, 121, 265, 291
cavalry 36
Chalcedon 104
Chalcidice 103, 150
Chalcis 18, ch.V, 103
Champions (battle) 264
chariots 36
chickens 81
Chigi vase 85, 127, 130
Chilon the ephor 268
Chios 77, 98, 241, 259
Cimmerians 20, 46, 246
Crimea 104
coinage 189f, 237–40
Corcyra 77, 104, 111, 146f, 242, 291
Corinth 26, 72, 77, 103f 145–3, 198, 224, 238, 242, 265
Corinthian pottery 32f, 74, 79, 84–6, 108, 146f
Cornford F.M. 92
Coulanges, Fustel de 190, 192
council (boulē) 56, 195–7, 223, 278, 280
courtesans see hetairai
craftsmen 55, 82, 147, 223f, 272f
Crete 5f, 82, 95, 218, 229, 291
Croesus 26, 244, 248, 252
Cumae 74, 106
Cyclops 62
Cyprus 8, 12, 36, 73, 95, 259
Cyrene 104, 112, 115, 117–23, 173, 204, 224, 265
Cyrus the Great 148f 244, 251–5, 264
Daniel 91
Darius 254–8, 267, chs.XIV–XV, 288
Dark Age ch.I, 34, chs.III–V
debt bondage 189–94
Delos 236, 243, 256, 271
Delphi 26f, 77, 113, 118, 146–51, 162, 186, 204, 242–5, 256, 263, 266, 291–3
Demaratos of Corinth 147
Demaratos of Sparta 244f, 266f 290
Demeter 86
demiourgos see craftsmen
democracy 279–87
Demokedes of Croton 257
Demonax of Mantinea 122, 278
dēmos 47, 55, 142–4, 158, 194
dialects 11
diet 44f
dikai, dikē 58–62, ch.XI
diked apo symbolōn 227
Diodorus 30
diolkos (slipway) 151
Dionysia 272
Dipylon Master 185
doctors 257
Dodona 82, 243
Dorians ch.I, 35, 117, 153f
Doric 11
‘Dorian institutions’ 176f
Dorieus 264f
dowry 39
Drakon 96, 182
Egypt 7, 19, 28, 70, 93, 131, 157, 193, 228–37, 243, 253f, 264
Elea 252
Elephantine 233
Emporion (Ampurias, Spain) 104, 227f
emporion 73, 107, 228–31
Enuma Elish 88
envy (phthonos): divine 26–7 human 218f
epic poetry 16–9, ch.III
Ephesus (temple of Artemis) 238, 242, 246f
ephoroi 162, 170f
Ephoros 30, 148, 154
erastēs 215–8
Eretria ch.V, 102, 111
erōmenos 215–8
Etruria 31f, 75f, 82, 95f, 110, 147, 152, 209, 225, 227
Euboea 18, ch.V, 131
eunomia ch.X, 186f, 206, 274, 279
Eupatridai 185
eupkrosynē 188, 211f
Eurytios vase 146, 208
Evans, Sir Arthur 5
Ezra 90
family 38f, 175f
feast of merit 47–52 (see symposion)
Fetters (battle of) 262
Foucault, M. 218
Freud, S. 6
funeral customs see burial customs
gamoroi 115f
Gaul 31 (see acculturation)
Gela 115
Gelon of Syracuse 292
generation dates 147, 153, 168
genos 39, 53, 147, 207, 221
Geometric pottery 12, 92f, 185
geras (booty, honour) 51, 58, 194
gifts 48f (see xenia)
Gombrich, Sir E. 82
Goody, J. 98–101
graphē 197
‘great rhētra’ 166–70
Greek language 10f
guest-friendship see xenia
Gyges of Lydia 246f
gymnasion 207
Gymnopaidiai 165
Harmodios and Aristogeiton 217f, 274, 280
Hekataios of Miletus 21f, 24, 260
hektēmoroi 191, 199
Hellanikos of Lesbos 29
Hellēnion (Naucratis) 229f
helots 153, 163 (see Messenians)
Hephaistos 55f
Heraclea Pontica 116
Heraion at Argos 29, 238
Herakleitos 260
Herennius Philo 88
Herodotus 22–8, 268f, ch.XVI, 315
heroic age 5
Hesiod 7, 18, chs.III–IV, 87–92, 96, 186, 279, 316
hetairai 214, 228, 231, 238
hetairoi 47, 54, 155, 207, 274
Hieron of Syracuse 292
Himera (battle) 292
Hipparchos son of Charmos 285
Hippias of Athens ch.XV, 281 (see Peisistratidai)
Hippias of Elis 29
Hippokrates of Gela 292
history, historie 23, 99
Hittites 7, 70, 88
Homer 7, 16–18, 24, chs.III–IV, 131–3, 145, 215, 228, 271, 316
homicide 39, 59f
homoioi 165, 175
homosexuality see sexuality
hoplites chs.VIII–X, 186, ch.XV
horos 188, 190, 193
housing 45
Hymettos 97
Hysiai (battle) 143, 165, 171
inscriptions 30f
Ionian Revolt 26, 258–60
Ionians ch.I, 27
Ionic 11
iron technology and trade 12, 70, 124
Isaiah 87, 255
isonomia 279f
Isthmus 29
Jews, Judaism 54, 255
justice see dikē
Kadmos 93
Kallinos of Ephesos 20
Kallixenos the traitor 286
kaloikagathoi 215
kalos vases 216
Kimon 204, 273
kinship terminology 38–40, 53
kingship 161 (Spartan) see basileus
Kleidemos 30
Kleisthenes of Athens 54, 207, 213, 222, 265, 274–80, 283f
Kleisthenes of Sicyon 154, 186, 212f, 214, 243, 263, 278
Kleomenes 26f, 207, 244, 263–8
klēros 39, 164, 175; see land tenure
Knossos 5–7, 82
Kolaios of Samos 118, 124, 224f, 229
kottabos 208
kouroi 216, 236
Kronos 88f
krypteia 179
Kumarbi 88f
kurbeis 183
Kylon of Athens 137, 182, 204
Kypselidai 53, 213, 243
Kypselos 137, 142, 148–51
Laconian pottery 32, 108, 122, 172f, 230
Lade (battle) 259
land tenure 110f, 114, 164
Laurion 287
law 58–62, 197–9; see dikē
Lefkandi (Euboea) 12–5, 76
Lelantine War 76–80, 105, 131, 145
Leonidas 268, 295
Leontini 114
Leotychidas 268
Lesbos 20 (see Mytilene)
Lévi-Strauss, CI. 6, 178
Libya 117–22
Linear B 6–8, 35, 44, 93
literacy see writing
local history 28–30
logos 23–7
lot in election 195, 286
Lucian 86
Lydia 20, 75, 151, 157, 172, 238, 244, 264
Lygdamis of Naxos 145, 264, 269
Lykourgos ch.X, 182
lyric poetry 19–21
Macedon 26, 103
Mahābhārata 91
Marathon 223, 269, 277; (battle) 281–3
Mardonios 300f
marriage 39–42, 176, 214
Massilia (Marseilles) 104, 109
Mauss, M. 49
Medes 251, 254
Medism 267, 282–7, ch.XVI
Megakles 219, 285
Megara 20, 77, 103f, 137, 144
Megara Hyblaea 114
megaron hall 45f
mercenaries 231–5, 239, 252, 258
Messenians 20, 77, 153, 163f, 171, 262
Metapontum 112, 114
Miletus 77, 104, 224, 230, 236, 247–51, 258f, 266
Milon of Croton 204, 257
Miltiades 273, 281–3
Mimnermos 20
Minoan culture 5f, 117
Mithras 253
murder see homicide
Mycenae, Mycenean culture ch.I, 90
myth, charter ch.I
myth, heroic ch.I
Mytilene 155–8
Naucratis 228–31
Naxos, 103, 113–5
Nestor’s cup 95
nomothetēs 181f
nudity 215f (see sport)
oikos economy 42f
olive cultivation 44, 198f
Olympia 29, 82, 96, 204, 243 (see sport)
oracles 66f; (see Delphi)
oral poetry 16–9
oral tradition 24–8, 213
orientalizing style 84–6
Orphics 92
Orsippos of Megara 147, 204
Orthagoras of Sicyon 142, 154
ostracism 97, 283–7
Paestum 242
palaistra 207
Pallene (battle) 269
Panathenaia 270f
Pandora 91
Panionion 260
Paphos 259
Parmenides 260f
Parry, Milman 17
patriotism 134f
Pasargadae 253, 258
Pausanias 30, 316
Pech-Mao 227f
Peisistratidai 21, 138, 211, 217, 226, 242, 244, ch.XV
Peisistratos 145, 199, 204, 268–73
Peloponnesian League 154, ch.XIV
Peloponnesian War 23, 28
pentekonters 121
Penthilidai 155f
Peoples of the Sea 7
Periandros 137, 145, 148–53
perioikoi 163
Persephone 86
Persepolis 253, 258
personification 62
Persia 20, 25f, 202, 211, 217, 240, chs.XIV–XVI
Phayllos of Croton 203
Pheidon of Argos 142f, 185
Pherekydes of Syros 92
Philaidai 53
Philochoros 30
philosophy 21, 99, 247–51
Phocaeans 104, 108–10, 224, 247, 252
Phoenicians 36, 70–3, 82, 93f, 105, 121, 137, 259
phratry 53f, 207, 276f
Phrygia 246
Phrynichos 259
Pindar 21, 81, 204–6, 214, 225f, 316
piracy 50
Piraeus 223, 287
Pitanate lochos 169f
Pithecusae (Ischia) 95f, 103, 228
Pittakos 156–8
Plataea 282; (battle) 122, 300
Plato 41, 87, 160, 176f, 200, 211
Plutarch 30, 174, 184, 316
poetry 19–21, 210f
poinikastas 97
polis 56, 62–5, 102f, 279
Polykrates of Samos 26, 138, 145, 242, 257, 264
population 64f, 186, 222
pottery 32f, 83, 209f, 223f, 272
priests 66
Prometheus 91
proxenos see xenia
Psammetichus I 229, 232f
Psammetichus II 233f
pseudo-archaism 178f
Pylos 6, 8
Pythagoras 260f
religion 65–7, 86–92, 242–5, 269–72
Rhegium 108
Sacred War 186, 243
Salamis 292, 298–300
Samos 23, 26, 32, 77, 153, 173, 229f, 242, 259
Sanchuniathon 88
Sappho 20, 155f, 210, 231
Sardis 246
Sargon of Akkad 149, 253
Schliemann, H. 5
schools 98, 203
sculpture 236f, 270, 272
Scythia 31, 173, 208, 264
seisachtheia 189–94
Selinus 242
Sepeia (battle) 266
Serfdom see salavery
Seven Wise Men 152, 158, 248, 268
Sexuality 41, 211, 213–8
Ships see pentekonter, trireme
Sicily 32, 96, ch.VII
Sicyon 154f
Sigeum 156
Silver 231
Simonides 21, 205, 300f
Skolion 210, 274, 280
Slavery 42f, 46, 116, 153, 228, 240–2
Solon 20, 140f, ch.XI, 268, 279
Sostratos of Aegina 225
Sparta 20, 77f, 103, 111, 130, chs.X, XV
Spina 104, 209, 228
Sport 202–7, 212
Stesichoros 263
Strabo 30, 316
Susa 253, 258
Symposion 54, 81, 177, 188, 207, 13, 261
Syracuse 103, 105, 111, 114, 146, 242
Syssitia 175, 177, 207 see symposion
Tarentum (Taras, Taranto) 32, 103, 111, 115, 164, 173
Tarsus 73
Tartessos (Tarshish) 71, 109, 118, 252
Technology 55f
Tegea 262f
Tell Defenneh 233
Temples 152, 236, 242f, 270f
Thales 21, 248f
Thasos 115
Theagenes of Megara 137, 144f, 182
themis 58–62
Themistokles 27, 226, 284–7, ch.XVl
Theognis 20, 81, 210, 217, 220f
Theopompos of Sparta 164, 166–8
Thera 104, 117–23
Thermopylae (battle) 293–9
Theron 292
Thersites 57
Thesssaly 77f, 186, 243, 267, 293
Thrace 103
Thrasyboulos of Miletus 145
Thucydides 23f, 28, 112, 217, 316
Thurii 23
timē (status) 47
Tomb of Diver (Paestum) 209
trade 50, ch.V, 150f, ch.XIII
trading post see emporion
transvcslism 176
Trapezus 104
Trebenishte 150
trireme 72, 287, 298
trittys 275–7
Troezen 295–9
Troy, Trojan War ch.I
tyrannos 137
Tyranny ch.IX, 263f
Tyrtaios 20, ch.IX, 161, 171, 186, 210
Urartu 246
Ventris, Michael 6
Vikings 13f
Vix krater 109, 173
wage labour 42
Waigal Valley, Nuristan 67
warfare 52
wealth measurement see coinage
Weber, M. 99
women 38–42, 115f, 176
writing 8, 19, 75, 92–101, 233f, 236; see schools
Xanthippos 285f
xeneia, xenia 48f, 78
Xenophanes 20, 260f
Xenophon 173f, 316
Xerxes ch.XVI
Zaleukos of Locri 96, 182
Zankle (Messene, Sicily) 108
Zeus 48, 51
Zopyros 290
Zoroaster 91, 251, 254
Zulus 178
Index of Sources
Aischines
Against Timarchos
140: 218
Alkaios
Frag. 129: 156
(ed. D.L. Page)
130: 157
326: 157f
350: 232
357: 155
360: 141
428: 156
Alkman
Frag. 1: 172
(ed. D.L. Page)
16: 172
19: 208
41: 171
64: 186
Anakreon
(ed. D.L. Page)
Frag. 3
04: 215
Anaximandros
(ed. Diels-Kranz)
Frag. 1: 249f
Archilochos
(ed. M.L. West)
Frag. 3: 79
5: 107
19: 137
119: 132
Aristophanes
Clouds
101off: 216f
Aristotle
Politics 4.1297b: 142
5.1305a: 142
5.1310b: 138f
5.1313a–b: 153
5.1319a: 114
Contitution of Athenians
7: 195
8.3: 183f
Contitution of Spartans:
ch.X
Athenaeus
Deipnosophistae
6.272: 241f
Diodorus
Historical Library
18.10: 297
Dionysius of Halicarnasssus
On Thucydides
5: 29
Roman Antiquities
3.46: 147
Ezekiel
8.14: 87
27.12–24: 71
Ezra
1.2–4: 255
Euripides Medea
250f: 126
Hekataios of Miletus
F.G.H. 1
Frag.1: 22
Herakleitos
Frag.40: 260
(ed. Diels-Kranz)
90: 240
92–3: 244
Herodotus
1.1: 23
1.5: 301
1.64: 159
1.66: 262
1.163: 109
2.53: 65
2.178–9: 229
3.129–38: 257
4.150–8: 117–23
4.152: 225
5.58ff: 93
5.92: 147–51
6.27: 98
6.56–60: 161f
6.126–30: 212f
7.142: 293
7.144: 293
7.228: 291, 295
Hesiod Theogony
901ff: 62