The figures indicate pages, except where they follow a Roman numeral, in which case they refer to the numbered notes.
Abarbareë and Boukolion, xiv, ii, 105.
Abaris, 300.
Abioi, 63.
Abipones in Paraguay, i, 30; viii, 28.
Academy, its doctrine of the Soul, xiv, 1.
Acheron, Ἀχερουσιὰς λίμην, i, 67; v, 25; 241.
Acheron, god of Hades, 591.
Achilles, i, 41; in Hades, 39; translated, 64 f.; on the μακάρων νῆσος, xiv, ii, 99; on Leuke, xiv, ii, 102; as Hero or God, 66; 126; iv, 3, 87, 137; xiv, ii, 42.
Adonis, iii, 30.
Adoption, 172; Ritual Act of Adoption in the Mysteries, 601 f.
Aeneas translated, xiv, ii, 110, 114 (ii, 3).
Aeracura, xiv, ii, 144.
Aeschylus, 157; vii, 12; 422 f.; Agam. 1235, 591 f.
Aether, the element of the Souls, 435 f.; dwelling place of Souls, 170–1; x, 45; xiv, 53, 69; 541.
Aethiopians, 63.
Ages, different, of Mankind (Hesiod), 67 f.; Golden Ages, ii, 49; vii, 18.
Agamemnon translated, xiv, ii, 99.
ἄγαμοι after death, 586; xiv, ii, 154.
Agathos daimon, v, 133.
Agides in Sparta, iv, 53.
Agon, see Funeral Games.
Agriania, viii, 28; ix, 11–12.
Agrianios, name of a month in Boeotia, v, 92.
Aiaia, ii, 14.
Aiakos, vii, 13.
Aias, Hero, 126; 137; xiv, ii, 55, 102; Sophokles’ Aias, xii, 88.
αἴδεσις, v, 151.
Ἅιδης = θάνατος, Θάνατος, xii, 4; = the grave, xiv, ii, 135; confusion of the two ideas, ib., 92; cf. Hades.
εἰς Ἀίδαο, Ἄϊδόσδε, i, 32.
Ἅιδου μήτηρ, 591 f.
αἱμακουρία, iv, 13.
Air, see Aether.
Aithiopis, 64; v, 166; xiv, ii, 102.
Akrisios, iii, 43.
Aktaion, 134.
Akousilaos, 593.
Alabandos, iv, 138.
Alaric, xiv, ii, 172.
ἀλάστωρ, v, 148, 178; xii, 73; 592, 595.
Albanians in the Caucasus, i, 30.
Aletes, ix, 66.
Alexander the Great reaches the land of the Blest, xiv, ii, 101; translated, ib., 107; Return of, and false Alexanders, ib., 112.
Alexander of Aphrodisias, xiv, 34.
Alexis, comic poet, xiv, ii, 143.
Alkandros, iii, 56.
Alkmaion Hero, iv, 105, 136; Physician, xi, 28, 35, 40, 55; xii, 150; xiii, 22.
Alkmene, iv, 134; translated, xiv, ii, 99.
Alkon, iii, 56.
ἀλλαθεάδες, v, 88.
Allegorical interpretation of myths, vi, 23.
Althaimenes, iii, 4.
Ambrosia, 58.
Ameinias (Pythagorean), xi, 30.
Amelesagoras, ix, 58.
ἀμεταστρεπτί, ix, 104.
Ampelius, Lib. Mem., viii, 3; iii, 12. 608
Amphiaraos, translated, 89 f., 92–3; (Zeus Amph.), 94, 101, 159; (not originally a god), iii, 57; (later cult of), xiv, ii, 104.
ἀμφιδρόμια, ix, 72.
Amphilochos translated, iii, 5, 13, 56; 133; iv, 105; xiv, ii, 104, 114.
Amphilytos, ix, 59.
Amphion, 238.
ἀμύητοι, 586 f.
Amyklai, 99 f.
ἀναβιώσεις, xi, 103.
Anæsthesia, see Insensibility.
Anagyros, Hero, 134.
ἀνάμνησις as taught by Pythagoras, Empedokles, Plato, xi, 96; 598 f.
Anaxagoras, vi, 23; 386; 432; xii, 143; fr. 6 [12], xi, 110–11.
Anaximander, x, 38; 366; xi, 98.
Ancestor-cult, 10 f.; 27 f.; 77 f. (Hesiod); Ancestors in the cult of Heroes, 119 f., 527 f.; of the γένη, etc., 124 f. (with nn.).
Anchises translated, xiv, ii, 110.
ἀγχιστεία (in the cult of souls), v, 42, 141; 176; xiv, ii, 10.
ἀνιέναι (τὰ καλά, etc.), v, 120.
Anima and animus in Lucretius, xiv, 74.
Animals in cult of the dead, v, 105; care of animals enjoined, vi, 35 (and see Food); skin of, apotropaic use of, xi, 58 (v, 167); souls of, x, 45; xiii, 40.
Andronikos (Peripatetic), 512.
ἄνεμοι, x, 45.
ἀνεμοκοῖται, ix, 107.
Angekoks, of Greenland, 262; ix, 117.
Angels, xiv, ii, 144.
Anthropogony (Orphic), 341 f., (Hesiodic) 67 f.
Anios, iv, 102.
Anthologia Palatina, xiv, ii, 122.
ἀνθρωποδαίμων, ii, 43.
Antichrist, xiv, ii, 113.
Antilochos translated, xiv, ii, 102 (p. 567).
Antinous translated, xiv, ii, 114.
Antiochos of Kommagene, his tomb, xiv, ii, 13 (p. 554).
Antiphon (of Rhamnous, the orator), v, 176; 588.
Antipodes, xiv, ii, 101.
ἀωροθάνατοι, 594 (add Phryn. App. Soph. in Bekk. Anecd., 24, 22).
ἄωροι, xiii, 36; 533; 553; 594; 604; xiv, ii, 154.
ἀωροβόρος Hekate, ix, 92.
Apis, ix, 68.
Apollo, 97 f.; 130; xii, 40; god of expiation, 180 f.; as leader of the Souls, xiv, ii, 146; and Dionysos, 287 f.; supplants Gaia, 290; Hyakinthos, 99 f.; Ἀτύμνιος, etc., iv, 99.
Apolline mantiké, 289 f.
Apollonia in Chalkidike, v, 92.
Apollonios of Tyana, ii, 18; xiv, ii, 115.
ἀπομαγδαλίαι, 595.
ἀπόνιμμα, ix, 88.
ἀποπομπή (δαιμόνων), v, 168.
ἀπόταφοι, xiv, ii, 20.
ἀποτροπαῖοι (θεοί), v, 168.
Apparitions of the departed, xiv, ii, 154; see Ghosts.
ἄψυχα trial held over, iv, 118.
ἀραῖος (νέκυς, δαίμων), v, 148; xii, 107.
Aratos as Hero, xiv, ii, 57 f.
ἀρχηγοί, ἀρχηγέται, iv, 51, 55; 527.
Archelaos, the philosopher, 432; xii, 152.
Archemoros Vase, v, 40.
Archilochos, v, 173.
Archon Basileus at Athens, 178.
Argeios and Herakles, i, 35.
Argimpaioi, x, 78.
Arginousai, battle of, 162.
Aristaios, iii, 6.
Aristeas of Prokonnesos, 300, 596.
Aristogeiton and Harmodios in Hades, 237.
Aristogeiton, Speech against, vii, 15.
Aristomenes as Hero, 528.
Aristophanes Frogs, 240.
Aristophon, comic poet, 601.
Aristotle, 383; xiv, 1; 493 f. (An. 408b, 18; xiv, 27).
Aristophanes of Byzantium, 583.
Arkesilaos, xiv, 1.
Art of the Greeks, 157; Cult of Souls as represented in, v, 105. 609
Askesis (Asceticism), vi, 35; 302, 338; Orphic, 343; Thracian, x, 78; Pythagorean, xi, 47; Empedokles, 381; practised in foreign mystery-religions, 546.
Asklepiades, doctor, xi, 69.
Asklepios, iii, 13; chthonic, mantic, 100 f.; his death by lightning, 582; Asklepiadai, iv, 92 f.
Asphalt (bitumen), apotropaic virtue of, v, 95.
ἀσφόδελος sacred to the χθόνιοι, ix, 115.
Associations: burial, xiv, ii, 4; religious, xiv, ii, 53.
Astakides, xiv, ii, 105; 582.
Astarte, iii, 30.
Astrabakos, 137.
ἄταφοι, restless wandering of, 163; v, 147; 595 (i, 33).
ἀτέλεστοι, uninitiated, lying in mud in the underworld, vii, 15; 586 f.
ἀθάνατος πηγή (in the underworld), xiv, ii, 151.
Athenaeus (139 E), iii, 48.
Athenaïs, ix, 59.
Athene ἀποτροπαία, v, 168.
Athenodoros, philosopher and Hero, 530.
Athens, 98; A. and Eleusis, 219 f.
Atlantes, x, 78.
Atonement in Plato (Purgation), xiii, 36.
Attis, iii, 30; viii, 55; 546.
Augustine, xiv, ii, 87.
Augustus, ascent to Heaven, of, xiv, ii, 107.
Aurelius, M. Antoninus, xiv, 44, 63, 69; 504.
Ausonius, xiv, ii, 167.
Australian natives, religious dances of, viii, 55; 585.
Autolykos, iv, 101; xiv, ii, 43.
Authority, later Antiquity's need of, 545.
Axiochos, the pseudo-Platonic dialogue, vii, 15; xii, 120; 602 f.
Avenging spirit, v, 148, 176; cf. ἀλάστωρ.
Averting the eves from the sight of spirits, ix, 104.
Avoiding the sight of spirits, iv, 84; ix, 104.
Baal, ecstatic prophets of, viii, 43.
Babylonia, i, 44.
Bacchanalia in Rome, xiv, ii, 106; viii, 54.
Βάκχος, viii, 10, 35; 335; cf. Dionysos.
Βάκχοι, viii, 31 f.
Bakis, Bakides, 292; ix, 58, 63, 66; 595.
Banishment, 163; in expiation of murder, 175 f. (v, 142 f.).
Banquet of the Pure (Orphic doctrine of), in the other world, vii, 18; x, 70.
Barathron at Athens, v, 32.
Barbarossa, legend of, iii, 16.
Βασιλίδαι, iv, 47.
Βασσαρεύς (Bassarides), viii, 10 f.
Batloka, viii, 30.
Baubo, 591 f.
Beans, see Food, prohibition of.
Beer known to the Thracians, viii, 38.
Bendis, Bendideia at Athens, x, 4.
Berenike, translated, xiv, ii, 107.
Bessoi in Thrace, 260; viii, 53–4.
βιαιοθάνατοι (βιοθάνατοι, βίαιοι), 175 f.; v, 148, 176; 594 f.; 604.
Birds (incarnations of Heroes), xiv, ii, 102.
Birth, pollution of, 295.
Birthday as day of remembrance of the dead, v, 89; xiv, ii, 18, 45.
Biton and Kleobis, xiv, ii, 148, 170.
Black objects (trees, fruit, etc.) sacred to χθόνιοι, and hence have kathartic properties, v, 61; ix, 81; cf. ix, 26; 590.
Blest, of the dead, 171; vii, 10; xiv, ii, 31; 541 (cf. μακαρίτης and Islands of the Blest).
Blindness follows the sight of a deity, xiv, ii, 41.
Bliss, life of, in Hades; see Utopia.
Blood = thought, 380.
Boccaccio, iv, 134.
Bones of Heroes, cult paid to, 122.
Born, better not to be, xii, 10.
Boukolion, xiv, ii, 105.
Βουκόλοι, Dionysiac, viii, 35.
Brasidas, as Hero, iv, 20; 128.
Breathing out the soul, i, 25; 30.
Bride, contests for the hand of a, i, 19.
Bronze: see Noise, etc.
Brotinos (Pythagorean), x, 7. 610
Brutus, 515; xiv, ii, 88.
Buddhism, viii, 60; x, 83; xi, 54, 96.
Burial, i, 34; oldest customs of, 22 f.; coffinless, v, 61, 62; inhumation and burning in Attica, v, 58; within the house, at the hearth, v, 66; xiv, ii, 9; within the city, v, 68; xiv, ii, 8.
Burial societies, xiv, ii, 4.
Burning and inhumation, 19 f.; burning the possessions of the dead, i, 30, 51; burning the dead; see Cremation.
Butios of Antilles, 262.
Cæsar, deification of, xiv, ii, 111.
Calling home the Souls, 42.
Canosa, vase from, vii, 27.
Cannibalism, x, 54.
Caracalla as an avatar of Alexander, xiv, ii, 112.
Cato of Utica, xiv, 64.
Cave of Zeus in Crete, 96 f.
Cave-deities, 89 f.; viii, 68.
Caves, sleep in, ix, 116.
Catacombs, xiv, ii, 144, 166, 174.
Celsus, xiv, ii, 96.
Celts, x, 81.
Cenotaph, i, 88.
Ceremonial of funerals restricted, 165, 167; v, 135; 540.
Cities, Founders of, 127 f.; cf. ἀρχηγοί.
Chains attached to a sacred statue, iv, 108.
χαῖρε on tombstones, 526 f.
Chalkis, criminal law of, v, 145.
χάρισμα, 292.
Χαρώνιον, v, 23.
Charon's fare given to the dead, 18; 162; vii, 9.
Children, importance of, 172; xii, 7.
China, ancestor-worship in, v, 129.
χοαί, for the dead, v, 106, 120.
χρηστοί of the dead, xiv, ii, 29 f. (vii, 10).
Christianity; ascetics and exorcists, 292, xiv, ii, 171, 179; use of word ἥρως, xiv, ii, 82; violation of graves by, xiv, ii, 11; Hell, 242; future rewards and punishments, xiv, ii, 96; rebirth, 602; Antichrist, xiv, ii, 113.