Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II. · Plutarch
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Academy, Academic, the School founded by Plato in ‘the most beautiful suburb of Athens’ (Thuc. ii. 34), 65, 104, 178, 264. Acanthus, Acanthian, a town of the Chalcidice, 94, 95. Achaeans, 102. Achaeus, 95. Achĕron, a river of the lower world, 227. Achilles, 294. Admētus, king of Pherae in Thessaly, and husband of Alcestis, 132. Adōnis (‘Gardens of Adonis’ were cut flowers planted in pots), 199. Adrasteia, a name for Nemesis, ‘the unescapable’, 207. Aegīna, an island in the Saronic Gulf, opposite to Athens, 99. Aegon, 85. Aegos Potami, a river, and in later times a town, in the Chersonese, famous for the sea-battle of 405, in which Lysander defeated the Athenian fleet, 88. Aemiliānus, a rhetorician, 134, 135. Aeolian, 121. Aeolĭdae, 132. Aeschylus, tragic poet of Athens, (525-456), 67, 132, 162, 265. Aesop of Samos, writer of fables (fl. 570), a freedman of Iadmon of Samos, 94, 192. Aetna, Mount, in Sicily, 271. Aetolians, 92. Agamemnon, 125, 230. Agathŏclēs, 193. Agāvē, daughter of Cadmus, and mother of Pentheus, 226. Agenorĭdas, 13. Agesianax (or Hegesianax), a poet, probably of Alexandria, third century, 260, 261. Agesilaüs II, the lame king of Sparta, reigned 398-361 (see his _Life_) 11, 13, 91. Aglaonīcē, 130. Aglaŏphon, 166. Agrigentum (Acragas), a town on the south coast of Sicily, 184. Aïdoneus (Hades), 77. Ajax, 193, 230.
Alcaeus, of Lesbos, lyric poet (fl. 600), 118. Alcibiădes 450-404, Athenian politician, 19, 183. Alcman, lyric poet of Sparta (fl. 630), 297. Alcmēna, wife of Amphitryon and mother of Hercules; (on her sanctuary, in a grove near Thebes, see Pausan. ix. 16. 4), 11, 12, 13. Alĕüs, 12. Alexander, the Great, 95, 192, 233. Alexis, of Thurii, poet of the so-called ‘Middle Attic Comedy’, fourth century, 137. Aloădes, Otus and Ephialtes, giant sons of Iphimedeia, wife of Aloeus (_Od._ xi. 307 foll., and _Il._ v. 385), 289. Alopĕcus, 109. Alphēüs, a river of Arcadia and Elis, 160. Alyattes, king of Lydia and father of Croesus (d. 560), 96. Alyrius, 100. Amēstris, 235. Ammon, the temple of Zeus Ammon in an oasis of the Libyan Desert to the N.W. of Egypt, 117, 120. Ammonius, an Athenian philosopher of the first century A. D., the instructor of Plutarch. A speaker in the First and Third Pythian Dialogues. _See also_ 298, and cp. Sympos. 3, 1, 2; 8, 3; 9, 1, 2, 5, 14; and _Life of Themistocles_, end. Amphiaraüs of Argos, prince and seer, who accompanied the Seven Chieftains against Thebes, and was swallowed up by the earth there, 121. Amphictyons, ‘Dwellers around’, whose council met at Thermopylae and at Pylaea, a suburb of Delphi, 95, 110. Amphilŏchus, son of Amphiaraüs, worshipped at Malli in Cilicia, 163, 205.
Amphīon, the district of Thebes between the rivers Strophia and Ismenus (Pausan. ix. 16 and 17), 10. Amphipolis, a town of Macedon on the Strymon, taken by Brasidas in 424, 175 _n._ Amphitheüs, a Theban patriot, imprisoned by the Polemarchs, 11, 29, 43, 50. Amphitryon, father of Hercules, 13. Anactorium, a town and promontory of Acarnania, 184. Anaxagoras, 499-427, a philosopher of Clazomenae in Ionia, 71, 165, 231, 277, 283. Andocĭdes, 16. Androcleidas, a Theban patriot, assassinated when a refugee in Athens, 46. Antichthon, 306. Antigŏnus, younger son of Demetrius Sotēr, king of Syria (d. 125), 204. Antipater, son of Cassander, king of Macedon, succeeded his brother Philip, and was himself murdered, 198. Antiphon, 18. Aphroditē, goddess of love, 189, 232, 272. Apollo, 59, 62, 67, 68, 73, 76, 77, 78, 88, 93, 94, 96, 99, 121, 132, 146, 160, 161, 170, 193, 210, 232. Apollocrates, son of Dionysius the younger, of Syracuse (d. 354), 198. Apollodōrus, tyrant of Cassandria (Potidaea) from 379, 189, 191. Apollonia, a town in Illyria founded from Corinth, 184. Apollonia, a town in Pisidia, 96. Apollonides, a speaker in the _Face in the Moon_. ὁ τακτικός (_Sympos._ 3, 4). Arabia, 297. Arcadia, Arcadians, 176. Arcĕsus, Lacedaemonian Harmost, 29, 51. Arcĕsus, of Sicily, 22. Archelaüs, king of Macedon, 413-399, friend and host of Euripides, 59. Archias, of Athens, the priest, 47.
Archias, of Thebes. A member of the oligarchical party, and made a Polemarch by Sparta, 8, 10, 29, 32, 43, 44, 47, 48, 50. Archidāmus, an Athenian, 6, 7, 8, 44, 45, 47. Archilŏchus, 714-676, of Paros, lyric and iambic poet, 63, 199, 230, 282. Archīnus, 7. Archȳtas of Tarentum, mathematician and statesman, fl. 300 (see _Life of Marcellus_, c. 14), 14 _n._, 181. Argos, Argive, 85, 186. Aridaeus, 206. Aristarchus of Samos, astronomer and physicist (310-230), 98, 264, 269, 283. Aristarchus, critic, of Samothrace and Alexandria (fl. 156), 295. Aristocrătes, king of Arcadia (stoned to death 668), 176. Aristodēmus, king of Messenia (d. 723), 229, 230. Ariston, 186, 195. Aristonīca, 104. Aristotle, 384-322, founder of the Peripatetic School at Athens, 69, 84, 88, 143, 162, 283, 318. Aristotle (see p. 255), a Peripatetic, who takes part in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_. Aristyllus, an astronomer (fl. 233), 98. Arnē, a town in Thessaly, 158. Arsălus, 138, 139. Artĕmis, 146, 230, 232, 262, 295, 308. Artemisium, on the north coast of Euboea, where the Greek fleet defeated that of Xerxes in 480, 183. Asclepius (Aesculapius), 185. Assyrians, 288. Asterium, 92. Athămas, 190, 226. Athena (Pallas Athene), 16, 50, 102, 139, 193, 262, 294. Athens, Athenian, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 23, 40, 47, 49, 62, 65, 88, 95, 96, 99, 177, 183, 185, 195, 196, 197, 229, 303. Atlas, a giant son of Iapĕtus and brother of Prometheus, identified with a mountain in NW. Africa, 65, 265. Atrŏpus, 37, 308, 315. Attĭca, 162. Augeas, king of the Epeans; slain for bad faith by Hercules, and succeeded by Phyleus, 204. Ausonius, a Latin poet of Bordeaux (A.D. 310-90), 127 _n._ Autolycus, son of Hermes, and grandfather of Ulysses, famed for his cunning, 185.
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