Rome, genius, i, 5; v, 132; marriage ceremonies, v, 95; Lares, v, 66, 132; Lemuria, v, 99; Manes, ib.; v, 133; Novemdialia, v, 83–4; os resectum, i, 34; Parentalia, v, 90; Penates, v, 132–3; Cult of Souls in, v, 114; Cremation, i, 37, 39.
Romans, admitted to Eleusinian Mysteries, 226.
Romulus, translation of, xiv, ii, 103, 107, 110.
Sabazios (Sabos), viii, 10.
σάβος, σαβάζιος, viii, 32.
Σαβάζια in Athens, x, 12.
Sabazios Mysteries (late), xiv, ii, 174.
Sacrifice at graves, 167, 169; made to Heroes before gods, iii, 46; kathartic, 585.
Salamis, 136 f.
Salmoneus, 581.
Samothrace, Mysteries of, vi, 34.
Sappho, xii, 12
Satrai, viii, 53.
Scapegoat, ix, 87.
Schelling, 223.
Scheriê, ii, 46.
Schol. Aristoph. Vesp. 1038, ix, 102.
Scythians, 259; ix, 15; x, 78.
Second sight, 260; 293 (see ἔκστασις).
Second-sight of the dying, i, 69.
Secret cults, 219.
Sects, Orphic, 335.
Seers, ecstatic: see μάντεις and Prophecy.
σέλινον sacred to the dead, v, 40, 107.
Σέλλοι, iii, 14.
Semele, 581.
Seminoles of Florida, i, 25.
Semitic influence on Greeks, 60; 96.
Semonides (Simonides of Amorgos), xii, 4, 8, 15.
Sertorius, his search for the Islands of the Blest, xiv, ii, 101.
Severus Alexander, xiv, ii, 112.
Servius ad. Aen. vi, 324 (Poeta Anon.), xi, 77.
Sex, changes of, in legend, iii, 3.
Sheep (or Ram), v, 105, 107, 167.
Sibyls, viii, 52; 292 f.; 596.
Sikyon (limitation on the length of epitaphs), xiv, ii, 118.
Silenus, legend of, xii, 10 (viii, 15, 31).
Silence in passing graves, v, 110.
Simonides of Keos, xii, 1, 3, 11.
Sin, 294 f., 343, 381, (Plato) 466; consciousness of, 242.
Sisyphos, i, 82; 241; vii, 27.
Sit tibi terra levis, xiv, ii, 120.
Sithon, iii, 3.
Sitting (not reclining) at feasts in honour of the dead, v, 86.
Skedasos, daughters of, xiv, ii, 35.
Skeletons, the dead as, xiv, ii, 92.
σκίλλα, kathartic property of, ix, 115; xi, 85; 589 f.
Skiron, v, 168.
Skotos, vii, 6.
Skylla (daughter of Hekate), 593.
Slaves admitted to initiation at the Mysteries, vi, 14; when freed, bound to keep up the cult of their dead master, v, 128.
Slavonic cult of souls, v, 161.
Sleep and Death, ii, 28; Death only Sleep, xiv, ii, 140; of the Gods, iii, 30; “Temple-sleep”: see Incubation.
Snakes, form in which χθόνιοι appear, iii, 12, 33; 98; iii, 55; iv, 129; v, 105, 113, 133, 168; 602.
Societies: see Associations.
Sokrates, 463.
Solon, date of archonship, ix, 120; as Hero, iv, 38; limits funeral pomp, 4, 45, 57, 75; protects the memory of the dead, v, 115; his view of life, xii, 6; and Croesus, xiv, ii, 170.
Sorcery: see Magic and Conjuration of the dead.
Sortilege, oracle of at Delphi, 290.
Soul = breath (πνεῦμα), 500 f.; xiv, ii, 138; represented on lekythoi as winged, 170; Pre-existence of, taught by Pythagoras, xi, 49; by Plato, 465 f.; Aristotle, 495 f.; Stoics, xiv, 60; by Jews under Greek influence, xiv, ii, 117; Soul and Mind, in Aristotle, 496; “Poor Souls,” v, 114; x, 66; Souls become daimones (Hesiod), 67 f.; transition from Soul to daimon, v, 133, 148; 179; v, 176; assist growth of crops, v, 120; called upon 624 at marriages, v, 121; appearances after death, ix, 105; 533 f.; xiv, ii, 154; dissipated by wind after leaving the body, xiii, 5; xi, 102; xiv, 49, 77; of murdered men, 181 f.; kingdom of Souls in the air, in the Aether or in Heaven, 342; xi, 35; 436 f.; Stoic, 500 f.; 541 f.; cf. Hades; in popular belief, xiv, ii, 142; in Neoplatonism, 547; parts of the soul, acc. to Pythagoras, xi, 55; Plato, 466 f.; Peripatetics, 512; Stoics, xiv, 60; Epicureans, 505; conjuration of souls not known in Homer, 24; later, v, 23; ix, 106; xiv, ii, 87, 90; on Defixions, 594 f., 604 f.; Souls, Cult of, after burial, 22 f., 77 f., 158 f., 163 f., 166 f., 181 f., 253 f.; Rudiments of, in Homer, 12 f.; in the family, 172 f.; represented on sepulchral reliefs, v, 105; Souls, Festival of, 168; in cult of Dionysos, ix, 11; Soul, “Salvation” of the, 172.
Souls: Transmigration of Souls—Greek names for, x, 84; Thracian belief in, 263 f.; Egyptian belief in, 346; Orphic, 337; 342 f.; 346 f.; Pythagorean, 375; xi, 50, 55; in Pindar, 415 f.; Empedokles, xi, 75, 96; Plato, 467; Stoics (Poseidonios?), xiv, 60.
σῶμα—σῆμα: Orphic, 342; x, 73; Pythagoras, 375; xi, 50; Empedokles, xi, 75; Euripides, xii, 137; Plato, xiii, 44; in popular belief, xiv, ii, 141.
Somnium Scipionis, xiv, 53, 54, 62; xiv, ii, 58.
Sophists, 432.
Sophokles, vi, 22, 26; 426 f.; as Hero, iv, 71; Oed. Col. 1583, xii, 112.
σωτήρ (ἥρως), xii, 128.
Sparta; funeral of kings, iv, 46; burial customs, v, 61; reliefs representing feasts of the dead, v, 105, 86; criminal law of, v, 145.
Speaking ill of the dead forbidden, v, 115.
Spell: see Magic.
Spencer, Herbert, 6.
Spielhansel, folk-tale of, i, 82.
Spiritualism, 264 f.; 385; 500; 595.
Spirits: see Ghosts.
Spirits, island of (Leuke), xiv, ii, 102; nocturnal battle of, xiv, ii, 37; magical compulsion of, ix, 107.
Spitting, apotropaic effect of, 586.
Stars inhabited, xi, 116; by the souls of the departed, x, 75–6; myths, 58.
State: see Politics; State Funerals, xiv, ii, 5–6.
Statues of Heroes, miracles performed by, 136.
στέφανος, iv, 21.
Stertinius, C. Xenophon (Hero), xiv, ii, 64.
Stobaeus, Ecl. i, 49, 46; xiv, ii, 138.
Stoics, xi, 98; xii, 67; 497 f.; 542.
Stones (a soul attributed to), xi, 72.
Stormclouds, shooting at, viii, 63; cf. Weather-magicians.
Striking the ground in calling on χθόνιοι, iii, 10.
Styx, vii, 21.
Subterranean translation among the Greeks, 89 f.; xiv, ii, 104; in Germany, 93; in Mexico and in the East, iii, 17.
Sûfis of Persia, viii, 60; 266.
Suicide forbidden (Orphic), x, 44; suicides refused burial, v, 33.
Suidas on ἐμασχαλίσθη, 582 f.
Sulphur, kathartic property of, v, 95.
Swoon (πιοψυχία), i, 9.
Syrians, xiv, ii, 174.
Sybaris (Lamia), iv, 115; Orphic gold tablets from, 417 f.; 598; 601.
Symbolism in religion, 224, 226 f.
Symmachos, xiv, ii, 172.
Syrianos, 596 f.
Syrie, 62 f.
Tacitus, xiv, 47.
Tahiti, funeral dirges of, v, 48.
Talthybios, 134.
Tantalos, 40 f., 241; vii, 27.
Tarantism, ix, 19.
Taraxippos (Hero), 127.
Tarentum, v, 68.
Tartaros, 76; vii, 6; 340; xi, 38.
Tasmania, cult of dead in, 585.
Ταῦτα, τοσαῦτα in epitaphs, xiv, ii, 167.
Teiresias, 36 f., 41; iii, 3, 8.
Teleology in Anaxagoras, xi, 104.
Tellos the Athenian, xiv, ii, 170.
Temesa, the Hero of, 135 f. 625
Temple-sleep: see Incubation.
Tenes, iv, 138.
Terizoi in Thrace, viii, 65.
Thamyris, 238.
Thanatos, xii, 4, 121; and Hypnos, ii, 28.
Thargelia, ix, 87.
Theagenes (Hero), 136; iv, 119, 134.
θεῖος ἀνήρ, xiii, 68.
Themistokles as Hero, iv, 30.
Theognetos (Orphic), x, 7; 597.
Theogony of Epimenides, ix, 123; of Hesiod, x, 5; Orphic, 339 f.; 596.
Theokrasia, x, 24.
Theology, Homeric, 25 f., 31 f.; of the court in Hellenistic period, 538 (see Orphics).
Theophanes (Hero), xiv, ii, 64.
Theophrastos, xiv, 34; Testament of, v, 137.
Theopompos, on Abaris, ix, 108; Aristeas, ix, 109; Bakis, ix, 66; Epimenides, ix, 117; Hermotimos, ix, 112; Phormion, ix, 111.
ὁ θεός, ἡ θεά at Eleusis, v, 19.
Theosophy (Orphic), 336.
Theoxenia, 96; iv, 16, 71; festival at Delphi, iv, 82.
Theron, 416.
Theseus, transfer of his bones to Athens, 122; expiation of murder of Skiron, v, 168; Descent to Hades, vii, 3.
Thesmophoria, 222.
θίασος, Dionysiac, Thracian, viii, 31.
30,000 = innumerable, xi, 78.
θόλοι, iii, 31.
Thorn: see White-thorn.
Thracians, viii, 11; cult of Dionysos, 256 f.; belief in immortality, 263 f.; in Transmigration, 263 f.; Ascetic practices, x, 78.
Thrasea Paetus, xiv, 64.
θρόνον στρωννύναι for a god, iii, 26.
θρόνωσις (of mystai), ix, 19.
Thunder clouds driven away by noise, etc., viii, 63.
θύειν, iv, 15.
Thyme used in burial, v, 36.
Thyrsos, viii, 22.
Tii of Polynesia, v, 161.
Timokles of Syracuse, x, 7.
Timoleon as Hero, xiv, ii, 59.
Titans (Orphic), 340 f.; x, 77 (cf. p. 76).
Tithonos, 58.
Tityos, 40 f.
Tragedy, Greek, 421 f.
Τράλεις, Thracian tribe of mercenaries, viii, 77.
Tralles in Karia, criminal law of, v, 150.
Translation, in Homer, 55 f.; subterranean, 89 f.; in Pindar, 414; in Euripides, xii, 127; Semitic, 60; xiv, ii, 109; German, 93; Italian, xiv, ii, 110; Tr. to Islands of the Blest, xiv, ii, 99; to the Nymphs, xiv, ii, 105; into a river, xiv, ii, 114; by lightning, 583; Tr. of Achilles, 64 f.; Alkmene, xiv, ii, 99; Althaimenes, iii, 4; Amphiaraos, 89 f.; Amphilochos, iii, 5; Antinous, xiv, ii, 114; Apollonios of Tyana, xiv, ii, 116; Aristaios, iii, 6; Aristeas (?), ix, 109; Berenike, etc., xiv, ii, 107; Diomedes, 67; xiv, ii, 99; Emperors, xiv, ii, 107; Empedokles, xi, 61; Erechtheus, 98; Euthymos, 136; Hamilcar, xiv, ii, 109; Helen, ii, 21; Herakleid. Pont., xi, 61; Iphigeneia, ii, 26; Kleomedes, 129; Laodike, iii, 6; Memnon, 64; Menelaos, 55; ii, 21; Oedipus, xii, 112; Phaethon, iii, 35; Rhadamanthys, ii, 17; Telegonos and Penelope, 65; Trophonios, 90; Tr. no longer understood in later ages, xiv, ii, 103; effected mechanically, xiv, ii, 106.
Trausians, viii, 75.
Trees planted round graves, i, 28; v, 73; sacred to the χθόνιοι, v, 61.
Τριακάδες, v, 86 f.; xiv, ii, 17.
Trieteric festival of Dionysos, 258, 285.
Triopion, ancient Greek cult there, ix, 89.
Triphylians, v, 11.
Triptolemos, i, 41; 220; vi, 35; as Judge in Hades, vii, 14.
τρίτα (sacrifice to the dead), v, 83.
τριτοπάτορες, v, 123 f.; x, 45.
Trophonios, 90 f., 101, 121, 159, 161; v, 133; viii, 68; xiv, ii, 104; Zeus Troph., iii, 18.
Trojan Heroes, xiv, ii, 41.
Turning one’s back on spirits: see Avoiding, etc.
Turnus, translation of, xiv, ii, 110.
τυμβωρύχος, xiv, ii, 11.
Twelve Tables influenced by Solon, v, 47.
Typhon, vii, 6.
Tyrtaios, xii, 13.
Underworld, pictures of on vases, vii, 27; Polygnotos’ picture of, 241 f., 586 f.
Unknown gods, iv, 62; Heroes, 127.
Unlucky days, v, 158.
Vampyre, v, 161; xiv, ii, 86.
Vapour-baths used by Scythians and Indians to produce religious intoxication, viii, 39.
Varro, i, 21, 34; iii, 31; vi, 23; ix, 111.
Vendetta: see Revenge.
Venus, conductress of souls, xiv, ii, 146.
Vergil, i, 37; vii, 6; xi, 50; xii, 62; 535.
Vibia, tomb of, xiv, ii, 144, 174.
Vine, cultivation of in Thrace, viii, 38; branches used in burial, v, 37.
Virbius, legend of, iv, 38.