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; INDEX
ILLUSTRATIONS ARE INDICATED BY
PAGE NUMBERS IN ITALIC TYPE.
Aberdeen Painter, cup with Triptolemus, 148
Achilles, 47, 50–51, 53, 54, 57, 130–31
Acragas, 85, 182, 184, 186
Adam, 2, 22, 23, 112, 157
Aeetes, King, 9, 65
Aelian, 57
Aeschylus: Daedalus’s statues as subject in tragedy by, 103; Glaukos (two distinct individuals) as subject of tragedies by, 48; Nurses of Dionysus, 34; Prometheus trilogy, 105; Sisyphus as subject of tragedy by, 53; Theoroi, 103
Aeson, 33–36, 43, 53
Aesop, 81, 244n39
agalmatophilia (statue lust), 107–10
Agathocles, 86, 184
aging, 53–58. See also rejuvenation
AI. See Artificial Intelligence
Ajatasatru, King, 203–6
Alcinous, King, 143–44, 151
Alcmene, 42
Alexander Romance, 49, 66, 81–82
Alexander the Great, 49, 50, 66–67, 81–82, 187, 193, 207
Alexandria, Egypt, 10–11, 100, 128, 146, 192, 197–202
Ali, Daud, 206
Amazons, 47
ambrosia, 27, 42, 50, 57–58
Ambrosios Painter, 148
Amenhotep III, 188
Anchises, 55
androids, 7, 219
anime, 210
ankle. See heel/ankle, vulnerability of
anthropomorphization, 11
Antikythera device, 186, 195, 196
Antony, Marc, 196
Apega, 193–95
Apelles, 98
Aphrodite, 17, 55, 57, 107–9, 129, 134–35, 159
Apollo, 55–56, 75, 146, 149, 181
Apollodorus, 70, 91, 137
Apollonius of Rhodes, 127, 128, 147; Argonautica, 7–11, 20, 22, 27, 28, 63–65, 150
Apollonius of Tyana, 109, 145
Appian, 196
archaic smiles, 166, 168
Archimedes of Syracuse, 195
architecture: Daedalus credited with, 85–86; honeycomb structure of, 88
Archytas, 128, 190–92, 214
Ares, 52–53
Argo (ship), 8, 42, 150
Argus, 135, 137–38, 137
Arhats, 209
Ariadne, 72, 75
Aristeides (artisan), 191