Academy, the, 253
Acanthus, the, 226
Accents, Greek system of, 248
Achæan League, the, 237, 245
Achæans, the, from the North, 37;
and Homer, 40-42
Achaia, a Roman province, 261
Achilles, worship of, 41;
the Shield of, 42-47
Acragas, temple at, 130;
Telamones of, 166
Acrocorinthus, 7
Acropolis, the, 7, 95, 96, 102, 138, 157;
its architecture, 163-165
Actors, 174
Acusilaus, 78
Admetus, 179
Adonis, 190, 251
Adultery in Sparta, 90
Ægean civilisation, 16;
culture, 17 et seq.;
decay, 31;
art, 32 et seq.;
dress of warriors, 38;
worship, 65
Ægean Sea, 15
Ægeus, 15, 165
Ægina, commerce, 127;
war with, 135;
pedimental figures from, 147
Ægis, the, 95
Ægospotami, 144
Æolians, the, 42
Æschylus at court of Hiero, 113, 129;
and the Oriental host, 136;
the drama of, 174;
the “Persæ,” 176;
the poet of Marathon, 177;
number of plays, 182;
in the “Frogs” of Aristophanes, 184
Æsculapius, 70
Ætolian League, 237
Agamemnon, tomb of, 13, 29;
worship of, 41;
in the Iliad, 49, 58;
in tragedy, 181
Agariste, 109
Agathocles, 250
Agathon, 227, 239
Agelâdas of Argos, 147
Agesilaus, King of Sparta, 81, 85, 200, 228, 241
Agias (statue), 169, 218
Agis, King of Sparta, 85, 93
Agora, the, 167
Aidōs, 10, 137, 187
Ajax, 147, 176
Alaric the Goth, 170, 262
Alcæus, 119, 121
Alcamenes, 70, 159
“Alcestis” of Euripides, 179
Alcibiades, 78, 99, 144, 146, 170, 195, 196
Alcinous, 48
Alcmæonids, the, 99, 115, 116
Alcman, 88, 104
Alexander the Great, career of, 11;
romantic, 180;
Agesilaus and, 201;
Lysippus sculptor to, 218;
and the temple at Ephesus, 221;
portraiture on coinage, 226;
Macedon under, 237, 241-245;
in art, 245-247
Alexandria, 243;
laid out by Greek architects, 247;
commerce, 247;
the greatest city, 247;
library of, 248;
culture, 248;
the Museum, 248;
and poetry, 249
Amazons, battle of (sculpture), 222
Amen-Ra, 251
Ammon, 243
Amphictyons, 72
Amphidamas, 63, 76
Amphipolis, 240
Anacreon, 113, 121, 122, 129
Anaxagoras, 145, 146
Anaximander, 122
Ancestor-worship, 30, 34, 50
Andromache, 55, 59
Animal deities, 65
“Answerers,” 174
Antenor’s “Harmodius and Aristogeiton,” 115
Anthela, 72
Anthropomorphic religion, 67
Antigone, 176, 178
Antioch, 251
Antiochus the Great, 116
Antiphon, 229
Anytus, 232
Apelles, 213, 223, 242, 245
Aphaia, temple of, Ægina, 147
Aphrodite in Homer, 50;
worship of, in Corinth, 108;
on the Parthenon frieze, 155;
in fourth-century art, 211;
the Cnidian Aphrodite, 213, 214;
in Alexandria, 251;
Aphrodite of Melos, 251
Apollo, the coming of, 65-74;
the Apollo Belvedere, 71;
Apollo of Delos, 112;
on the Parthenon frieze, 155;
temple of Phigaleia, 169;
statue at Delphi, 169;
and Orestes in drama, 181;
in fourth-century art, 211;
Apollo Sauroctonos, 217;
Palatine Apollo, 218;
and Niobe, 222;
“Apollo and Marsyas,” 216
Apollonius the Rhodian, 249
Apoxyomenus, 81, 218
Arcadians, the, 206, 207
Arcady, 167
Archelaus, 239
Archilochus, 104, 121, 122
Archimedes, 248
Architecture, prehistoric, 24;
Doric, 106;
temples, 161;
the Parthenon, 161-163;
the Acropolis, 163, 165;
the Erechtheum, 165-167;
other Athenian buildings, 167-168;
other Greek buildings, 168-171;
fourth-century, 226;
the Corinthian order 226;
Græco-Roman, 263
Archons, 117
Areian Hill, 117
Areopagus, Solon and the, 100;
its powers, 117;
its influence, 133;
under democracy, 141;
power taken away by Pericles, 142;
meeting-place, 167
Ares, 77, 154;
the Ludovisi, 220
Arethusa, 131;
coins, 225
Arginusæ, 195, 232
Argives, the, 109
Argonautic expedition of Jason, 249
Argos, 28, 109, 245
Ariadne, 15
Arion, 122, 173
Aristarchus, the Father of Criticism, 248
Aristeides, 135, 140, 141
Aristion, stēlē of, 114
Aristocracies, 86, 119, 145, 256
Aristogeiton, 115, 180
Aristophanes and “the Harmodius,” 116;
champions the hoplites, 140;
and Cleon, 144;
and liberty of speech, 145;
and Pheidias, 157;
humour of, 183
Aristotle on Spartan government, 86;
on tragedy, 181;
and state payment, 197;
his greatness and birth, 253;
disciple of Plato, 253;
teacher of Alexander, 253;
his writings, 254;
“The Politics,” 255;
his influence, 261
Arnold’s, Matthew, “Thyrsis,” 250
Art, Greek, its perfection, 10, 103;
qualities, 56;
the cults and, 103;
simplicity, 153, 162;
subordination of the artist, 158;
in the fourth century, 208;
continuance and decadence, 262-263;
Græco-Roman, 265;
perishes from vulgarity, 266
Artaphernes, 134
Artaxerxes, 201, 204
Artemis, 202, 222;
of Brauron, 99, 165;
temple of, at Ephesus, 221;
“Artemis and Apollo,” by Praxiteles, 216
Artemisia, wife of Mausolus, 221
Ascra, 62
Ashtaroth, 108
Asia, 244
Aspasia, 146
Athena, statue of, at Troy, 54;
Pallas Athena, 51, 94;
birth and worship, 94;
Northern origin, 95;
an Achæan goddess, 95, 102;
hoplite goddess, 95;
and the name of Athens, 95;
gift of olive-tree, 97;
origin of Athena, 99;
and Erechtheus, 102;
shrine and image, 102, 165, 166;
Athena Parthenos, 148, 156;
in Parthenon sculptures, 151, 152, 154;
statues of, 157;
the Mourning Athena, 160, 192;
Athena Promachos, 102, 165;
Athena the Crafts-woman, 165;
Athena type of coins, 225;
Athena and Marsyas, 165
Athenian drama, 172
Athenian mysteries, 98
Athens and the sea, 6;
and silver-mines, 6;
the state, 9;
pays tribute to Minos, 16;
occupations of the Athenians, 40;
Pallas Athena and, 95;
Theseus and, 97;
agricultural, 97, 98;
Eupatridæ, 97;
democracy, 97;
religious customs, 98;
law-giving, 99;
Homer and, 102;
and the tyrants, 104, 115;
Peisistratus and, 110;
police, 111;
state cults, 111;
freedom of, 115;
government, 116;
the rise of, 132;
attacks by Medes and Persians, 134-140;
and a navy, 135;
Athenian civilisation, 140;
a democratic city-state, 140;
Athenian empire, 141;
Pericles and liberty, 142;
conflict with Sparta, 143;
Peloponnesian War, 143;
capitulates, 144;
freedom in, 145;
Pericles’ ideal, 146;
Pericles’ Athens, 150;
the Long Walls, 163, 195, 198;
buildings of, 167;
aristocracy, 172;
downfall and restoration, 194;
popular government, 195, 197;
oligarchy, 196;
the Thirty Tyrants, 197;
finance, 198;
fourth-century Athens, 209;
coinage, 225;
legal system, 229;
rebellion against aliens, 238;
and Macedon, 240;
oppressions, 244;
enslaved by Demetrius, 252;
her philosophers, 252;
and Aristotle, 253;
“Polity of Athens,” 255;
intellectual life of the third century, 258;
self-government under the Romans, 261;
schools of philosophy, 261;
Frankish dukes, 262.
See also Attica.
Athens and Sparta, 40, 83, 94, 195, 206, 231
Athletics, Greek, antiquity of, 74, 76;
religious significance, 74, 75, 76;
a modernised programme of sports, 74;
Pythian Games, 76;
Olympian Games, 76, 78;
nature of the contests, 77;
sacrifice and ritual, 77;
the competitors, 77;
the judges, 77;
the prize and honours, 78;
discreditable practices, 78;
anecdotes of Pausanias, 78;
Euripides’ tirade against, 79;
inspires sculpture, 80;
nudity, 81
Atreus, 181
Attalids, 251
Attalus, 238
Attica and Northern invasion, 96;
a city-state, 97, 111;
the older worship of, 98
Attica, plain of, 9
Augustus and Alexander the Great, 242
Aule, 59
Aulis, 63
Autocracy, civilisation and, 32

Babylon, 241
Bacchiads, the, 104
Bacchylides, 113, 129
Bacon, 261
“Basileis,” 104
Basileus, 47
Bassæ, temple at, 169, 226
Beauty, Hellenism and, 4
Bentley, Richard, 129
Bias of Priene, 101, 122
Bion, 250
Black Sea, the, 110
Bœotia, 9, 142
Boethos, 220
Boston Museum, slabs in, 125
Boy Victor (statue), 160
Boy with thorn in foot (statue), 160
Branchidæ figures, 54
Brasidas, 93, 229
Breathings and accents, Greek, 248
British Museum, Elgin Marbles, 151, 164, 166;
Strangford Shield, 156;
frieze from Phigaleia, 170;
statue of Demeter, &c., 219;
head of Hypnos, 220;
Mausolus, 221;
Tanagra figures, 227;
Head of Alexander, 246;
the Portland Vase, 263
Bronze Age, the, 16, 19, 36
Bronzes, 220
Brunn on the Parthenon figures, 151
Bucchero nero, 18
Bucephalus, 242, 245
Bull, the Farnese (sculpture), 265
Bull-baiting, Cnossian, 25
Burial of the dead, 190
Burke, Edmund, 230
Burrows, Prof., on Minoan drains, 26;
date of the fall of Minoan empire, 38
Butler, Samuel, on Homer, 58
Byron, Lord, 262;
on Anacreon, 113

Calamis, 159
Callimachus, 166, 226, 249
Callinus, 122
Calydonian boar-hunt, 218
Cameo-engraving, 263
Candahar, 243
Capitoline Gallery, 214
Carcinus, 187
Caria, 221, 237
Carneades, 259
Carrara marble, 147
Carrey’s Parthenon drawings, 150
Carthage, 129
Carthaginian invaders of Sicily, 250
Caryatids, 131, 166
Cassandra, 58
Cat, the, 193
Catabasis, the, 202
Cato, 259
Cave of Pan, 168
Caves as dwellings, 18
Cecropia, 95
Cecrops, 96, 166
Cephisodotus, 213