Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I. - active approximately 150-175 Pausanias

(The number in Roman Notation is the number of the Book, the number in Arabic Notation the number of the Chapter.)

Achelous, a river in Ætolia, iv. [34]; viii. 24. Its contest with Hercules, iii. [18]; vi. [19]. Father of Callirhoe, viii. 24, of the Sirens, ix. 34, of Castalia, x. 8.
Acheron, a river in Thesprotia, i. [17]; v. [14]; x. 28.
Achilles, i. [22]; iii. [18], [19], [24].
Acichorius, a general of the Galati, x. 19, 22, 23.
Acrisius, son of Abas, ii. [16]. Husband of Eurydice, iii. [13]. Constructs a brazen chamber for his daughter Danae, ii. [23]; x. 5. Killed unintentionally by his grandson Perseus, ii. [16].
Actæa, the ancient name of Attica, i. [2].
Actæon, son of Aristæus, ix. 2; x. 17, 30.
Addison, ii. [20], Note.
Adonis, ii. [20]; ix. 29.
Adrian, the Roman Emperor, i. [3], [18], [44]; ii. [3], [17]; vi. [16], [19]; viii. 8, 10, 11, 22. His love for, and deification of, Antinous, viii. 9.
Adriatic sea, viii. 54.
Adultery, iv. [20]; ix. 36.
Ægialus, afterwards Achaia, v. [1]; vii. 1, where see Note.
Ægina, the daughter of Asopus, ii. [5], [29]; v. [22]; x. 13.
Ægina, the island, ii. [29], [30].
Ægisthus, i. [22]; ii. [16], [18].
Ægos-potamoi, iii. [8], [11], [17], [18]; iv. [17]; ix. 32; x. 9.
Æneas, the son of Anchises, ii. [21], [23]; iii. [22]; v. [22]; viii. 12; x. 17, 26.
Æschylus, the son of Euphorion, i. [2], [14], [21], [28]; ii. [13], [20], [24]; viii. 6, 37; ix. 22; x. 4.
Æsculapius, the son of Apollo, ii. [10], [26], [27], [29]; iii. [23]; vii. 23; viii. 25. His temples, i. [21]; ii. [10], [13], [23]; iii. [22], [26]; iv. [30], [31]; vii. 21, 23, 27; viii. 25.
Æsymnetes, vii. 19, 20.
Æthra, wife of Phalanthus, her love for her husband, x. 10.
Ætna, its craters, how prophetic, iii. [23]. Eruption of Ætna, x. 28.
Agamemnon, i. [43]; ii. [6], [18]; iii. [9]; vii. 24; ix. 40. His tomb, ii. [16]; iii. [19].
Ageladas, an Argive statuary, iv. [33]; vi. [8], [10], [14]; vii. 24; viii. 42; x. 10.
Aglaus of Psophis, happy all his life, viii. 24.
Ajax, the son of Oileus, his violation of Cassandra, i. [15]; x. 26, 31.
Ajax, the son of Telamon, i. [5], [35]; v. [19].
Alcæus, vii. 20; x. 8.
Alcamenes, a statuary, a contemporary of Phidias, i. [8], [19], [20], [24]; ii. [30]; v. [10]; viii. 9; ix. 11.
Alcmæon, son of Amphiaraus, the murderer of his mother Eriphyle, i. [34]; v. [17]; viii. 24.
Alcman, the poet, i. [41]; iii. [18], [26].
Alcmena, the daughter of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and wife of Amphitryon, deceived by Zeus, v. [18]. Hated by Hera, ix. 11. Mother of Hercules, v. [14].
Alcyone, the daughter of Atlas, ii. [30]; iii. [18]; ix. 22.
Alexander, son of Alexander the Great by Roxana, i. [6]; ix. 7.
Alexander the Great, i. [9]; v. [21]; vii. 5; ix. 23, 25. Said by the Macedonians to be the son of Ammon, iv. [14]. Very passionate, vi. [18]. Tradition about his death, viii. 18. Buried at Memphis, i. [6]. His corpse removed thence by Ptolemy, i. [7]. Statues of him, i. [9]; v. [25]; vi. [11]. Cassander’s hatred of him, ix. 7.
Alexandria, v. [21]; viii. 33.
Alpheus, a river in Pisa, iii. [8]; v. [7]; vi. [22]. Enamoured of Artemis, vi. [22]; of Arethusa, v. [7]. Women may not cross the Alpheus on certain days, v. [6]. Leucippus lets his hair grow to the Alpheus, viii. 20.
Altars, v. [13], [14]; vi. [20], [24]; ix. 3, 11.
Althæa, daughter of Thestius and mother of Meleager, viii. 45; x. 31.
Altis (a corruption of ἄλσος, grove), v. [10], [11], [14], [15], [27].
Amaltheæ cornu, iv. [30]; vi. [19], [25]; vii. 26. (Cornu copiæ.)
Amazons, i. [15], [41]; iii. [25]; iv. [31]; vi. [2].
Amber, native and otherwise, v. [12].
Ambraciotes, v. [23]; x. 18.
Ammon, iii. [18], [21]; iv. [14], [23]; v. [15]; vi. [8]; viii. 11, 32; ix. 16; x. 13.
Amphiaraus, i. [34]; ii. [13], [23]; ix. 8, 19.
Amphictyones, vii. 24; x. 2, 8, 15, 19.
Amphion and Zethus, sons of Antiope, ii. [6]; ix. 5, 17; x. 32.
Amphion, ii. [21]; vi. [20]; ix. 5, 8, 16, 17.
Anacharsis, i. [22].
Anacreon of Teos, a friend of Polycrates, i. [2]. The first erotic poet after Sappho, i. [25].
Anaximenes, his ruse with Alexander the Great, &c., vi. [18].
Ancæus, the son of Lycurgus, viii. 4, 45.
Androgeos, i. [1], [27].
Andromache, the wife of Hector, x. 25.
Androtion, vi. [7]; x. 8.
Angelion and Tectæus, statuaries and pupils of Dipœnus and Scyllis, ii. [32]; ix. 35.
Antæus, ix. 11.
Antalcidas, Peace of, ix. 1, 13.
Antenor, x. 26, 27.
Anteros, i. [30]; vi. [23].
Anticlea, the mother of Odysseus, x. 29.
Anticyra, famous for hellebore, originally called Cyparissus, x. 36.
Antigone, ix. 25.
Antimachus, the poet, viii. 25; ix. 35.
Antinous, viii. 9. See also Adrian.
Antioch, the capital of Syria, viii. 29.
Antiochus, the pilot of Alcibiades, iii. [17]; ix. 32.
Antiope, the Amazon, i. [2], [41].
Antiope, the mother of Zethus and Amphion, i. [38]; ii. [6]; ix. 17, 25; x. 32.
Antiphanes, an Argive statuary, v. [17]; x. 9.
Antipœnus, heroism of his daughters Androclea and Alcis, ix. 17.
Antonine, the Emperor, called by the Romans Pius, viii. 43. His son and successor Antonine, viii. 43.
Anytus, one of the Titans, viii. 37.
Aphidna, i. [17], [41]; ii. [22]; iii. [17], [18].
Aphrodite, Anadyomene, ii. [1]; v. [11]. Mother of Priapus, according to the people of Lampsacus, ix. 31. The tutelary saint of the men of Cnidus, i. [1]. Ancient temple of her and Adonis in common in Cyprus, ix. 41. Her clients, ii. [34]; ix. 38. Her statue by Dædalus, ix. 40. The myrtle in connection with her, vi. [24]. The Celestial and Pandemian Aphrodite, vi. [25]; ix. 16. (The Latin Venus.)
Apis, the Egyptian god, i. [18]; vii. 22.
Apollo, helps Alcathous, i. [42]. Herds the cattle of Laomedon, vii. 20. Inventor of the lute, iii. [24]; v. [14]; viii. 31. Jealous of Leucippus, viii. 20. Jealous of Linus, ix. 29. His altar in common with Hermes, v. [14]. See also Delphi.
Aratus of Soli, i. [2].
Aratus of Sicyon, ii. [8], [9]; viii. 10, 52.
Ardalus, the son of Hephaæstus, inventor of the flute, ii. [31].
Ares, the Latin Mars, charged with murder, i. [21], [28].
Areopagus, i. [28]; iv. [5].
Arethusa, v. [7]; vii. 24; viii. 53.
Argiope, a Nymph, mother of Thamyris by Philammon, iv. [33].
Argo, the famous ship, vii. 26; ix. 32.
Argonauts, vii. 4.
Argos, ii. [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24]; vii. 17.
Ariadne, i. [20], [22]; x. 29.
Aricia, the people of, their tradition about Hippolytus, ii. [27].
Arimaspians, i. [24], [31].
Arion, the horse, viii. 25.
Arion and the dolphin, iii. [25].
Aristocrates, viii. 5, 13. Heredity in vice and punishment.
Aristodemus, king of the Messenians, iv. [8], [10], [13], [26].
Aristogiton, i. [8], [29].
Aristomache, the daughter of Priam, x. 26.
Aristomenes, the hero of Messenia, iv. [6], [14], [15], [16], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [27], [32]; vi. [7]; viii. 14, 51.
Aristo, the father of the famous Plato, iv. [32].
Aristophanes on Lepreus, v. [5].
Aristotle, the mighty Stagirite, his statue, vi. [4].
Arsinoe, daughter of Ptolemy, and wife of her own brother, i. [7], [8]; ix. 31.
Arsinoites, name of a district in Egypt, v. [21].
Art, the noble art of self-defence, vi. [10]; viii. 40.
Artemis, (the Latin Diana,) iii. [22]; iv. [30]; viii. 3, 27. Especially worshipped at Hyampolis, x. 35. Temple of the goddess at Aulis, ix. 19. Events there, do.
Artemisia, her valour at Salamis, iii. [11].
Artemisium, a mountain, ii. [25]; viii. 5.
Ascra, in Bœotia, the birthplace of Hesiod, ix. 29, 38.
Asopus, a river in Bœotia, ii. [6]. Reedy, v. [14].
Asopus, a river in Sicyonia, ii. [5], [15].
Asphodel, its unpleasant smell, x. 38.
Atalanta, iii. [24]; viii. 35, 45.
Athamas, son of Æolus, vii. 3. Brother of Sisyphus, ix. 34. Desirous to kill his children Phrixus and Helle, ix. 34.
Athene, (the Latin Minerva,) why grey-eyed, i. [14]. Her birth, i. [24]. Disputes as to territory between her and Poseidon, i. [24]; ii. [30]. Gives Erichthonius to the daughters of Cecrops, i. [18]. A colossal statue of the goddess at Thebes, ix. 11.
Athens, sacred to Athene, i. [26]. Captured by Sulla, i. [20].
Athenians, very pious, i. [17], [24]; x. 28. (Cf. Acts xvii. 22.) Helped in war by the gods, viii. 10. Their forces at Marathon and against the Galati, iv. [25]; x. 20. Their expedition to Sicily, viii. 11; x. 11, 15. The only democracy that ever rose to greatness, iv. [35]. Their magistrates, iii. [11]; iv. [5], [15]. Their townships, i. [3], [32], [33]. Their law-courts, i. [28]. Their Eponymi, i. [5]. Their expeditions beyond Greece, i. [29]. Their heroes, x. 10.
Athletes, their diet in training, vi. [7].
Atlas, v. [11], [18]; vi. [19]; ix. 20.
Atlas, a mountain in Libya, i. [33]; viii. 43.
Atreus, ii. [16], [18]; ix. 40.
Attalus, an ally of the Romans, vii. 8, 16. His greatest feat, i. [8]. The oracle about him, x. 15.
Attica, whence it got its name, i. [2]. Sacred to Athene, i. [26].
Augeas, v. [1], [3], [4], [8].
Augustus, iii. [11], [21], [26]; iv. [31]; vii. 17, 18, 22; viii. 46. Statues of Augustus, ii. [17]; v. [12].
Aulis, iii. [9]; viii. 28; ix. 19.
Aurora, i. [3]; iii. [18]; v. [22].
Axe tried in Court, i. [24], [28].
Babylon, its walls, iv. [31].
Bacchantes, ii. [2], [7].
Bacchus, see Dionysus.
Bacis, his oracles, iv. [27]; ix. 17; x. 14, 32. A Bœotian, x. 12.
Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Albans, on revenge, iii. [15], Note.
Bady, place and river, v. [3].
Balsam tree, ix. 28.
Banqueting-hall at Elis, v. [15].
Barley cakes, mysterious property of, iii. [23].
Baths, how taken in ancient times, x. 34. Women’s swimming-bath, iv. [35]. Warm baths, ii. [34]; iv. [35]; vii. 3.
Bato, the charioteer of Amphiaraus, ii. [23].
Bayle on Hippomanes, v. [27], Note.
Beans, i. [37]; viii. 15.
Bear, the Great, viii. 3.
Bears, i. [32]; iii. [20]; vii. 18.
Bees of Hymettus, i. [32]. Bees and Pindar, ix. 23. In connection with Trophonius, ix. 40. Temple fabled to have been built by them, x. 5.
Bel, i. [16]; viii. 33.
Bellerophon, ii. [2], [4], [31]; iii. [18]; ix. 31.
Bias of Priene, x. 24.
Biblis, love-passages of, vii. 5.
Bison, x. 13.
Bito, see Cleobis.
Blackbirds of Mt. Cyllene, viii. 17.
Boar’s Memorial, iv. [15], [19].
Bœotarchs, ix. 13, 14; x. 20.
Bones, ii. [10]; iii. [22].
Booneta, iii. [12], [15].
Bootes, viii. 3.
Brasiæ, iii. [24], see Note.
Brass, first brass-founders, viii. 14; x. 38.
Brennus, x. 8, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23.
Briareus, ii. [1], [4].
Brigantes in Britain, viii. 43.
Briseis, v. [24]; x. 25.
Britomartis, iii. [14]; viii. 2.
Bupalus, iv. [30]; ix. 35.
Buphagus, viii. 14, 27.
Burial, ii. [7]; ix. 32.
Bustards, x. 34.
Byzantium, walls of, iv. [31].
Cabiri, i. [4]; iv. [1]; ix. 22, 25; x. 38.
Cadmean victory, ix. 9.
Cadmus, the son of Agenor, iii. [15]; ix. 5, 12, 19.
C. Julius Cæsar, ii. [1]; iii. [11]. His gardens, viii. 46.
Calais and Zetes, iii. [18].
Calamis, a famous statuary, master of Praxias, i 3, 23; ii. [10]; v. [25], [26]; vi. [12]; ix. 16, 20, 22; x. 16.
Calchas, i. [43]; vii. 3; ix. 19.
Callicrates, vii. 10, 12.
Callimachus, i. [26]; ix. 2.
Callion, barbarity of the Galati at, x. 22.
Calliphon of Samos, v. [19]; x. 26.
Callirhoe and Coresus, tragic love story about, vii. 21.
Callisto, the daughter of Lycaon, changed into a she-bear, i. [25]; viii. 3.
Callon, a statuary of Ægina, ii. [32]; iii. [18]; vii. 18.
Calus, murder of by Dædalus, i. [21], [26].
Calydonian boar, i. [27]; iii. [18]; viii. 45, 46, 47.
Canachus, a statuary, ii. [10]; vi. [9], [13]; vii. 18; ix. 10; x. 9.
Cantharus, a statuary, vi. [3], [17].
Capaneus, the son of Hipponous, struck with lightning, ix. 8, see Note.
Capua, the chief town in Campania, v. [12].
Carcinus, a native of Naupactus, x. 38.
Carpo, a Season, ix. 35.
Carthage, rebuilt by Julius Cæsar, ii. [1].
Carthaginians, i. [12]; v. [25]; vi. [19]; x. 8, 17, 18.
Cassandra, the daughter of Priam, violated by Ajax, i. [15]; v. [19]; x. 26. Called Alexandra, iii. [19], [26].
Castalia, x. 8.
Castor and Pollux, see Dioscuri.
Catana, filial piety at, x. 28.
Caverns, notable ones, x. 32.
Ceadas, iv. [18].
Cecrops, son of Erechtheus, king of Athens, i. [5]; vii. 1; viii. 2.
Celeus, father of Triptolemus, i. [14], [38], [39]; ii. [14].
Centaur, v. [19]. Fight between the Centaurs and the Lapithæ, i. [17]; v. [10].
Cephalus and Aurora, i. [3]; iii. [18].
Cepheus, father of Andromeda, iv. [35].
Cephisus, a river in Argolis, ii. [15], [20].
Cephisus, a river in Attica, i. [37].
Cephisus, a river in Eleusis, i. [38].
Cephisus, a river in Bœotia, ix. 24, 38; x. 8, 33, 34.
Ceramicus, i. [3]; viii. 9.
Cerberus, ii. [31], [35]; iii. [25].
Ceres, see Demeter.
Cestus, viii. 40.
Chæronea, fatal battle of, i. [18], [25]; v. [20]; ix. 6, 29, 40. (Milton’s “dishonest victory, fatal to liberty.”)
Chaldæans, the first who taught the immortality of the soul, iv. [32].
Champagny on Pausanias, see Title-page.
Chaos first, ix. 27.
Charon, x. 28. (Cf. Virgil’s “Jam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus.”—Æn. vi. 304.)
Chimæra, iii. [25].
Chios, vii. 4.
Chiron, a Centaur and tutor of Achilles, iii. [18]; v. [5], [19].
Chrysanthis, i. [14].
Cicero, see Note to x. 35.
Cimon, the son of Miltiades, ii. [29]; viii. 52.
Cinadus, the pilot of Menelaus, iii. [22].
Cinæthon, the Lacedæmonian genealogist, ii. [3], [18]; iv. [2]; viii. 53.
Ciphos, our coif, iii. [26].
Cirrha, x. 1, 8, 37.
Cists, used in the worship of Demeter and Proserpine, viii. 25, 37; x. 28.
Cithæron, a mountain in Bœotia, i. [38]; ix. 2.
Clearchus, iii. [17]; vi. [4].
Cleobis and Bito, ii. [20], see Note.
Cleombrotus, the son of Pausanias, king of Sparta, i. [13]; iii. [5], [6]; ix. 13.
Cleomedes, vi. [9].
Cleomenes, ii. [9].
Cleon, statuary, v. [17], [21]; vi. [1], [8], [9], [10].
Clymene, reputed by some mother of Homer, x. 24.
Clytæmnestra, ii. [16], [18], [22].
Coats of mail, i. [21]; vi. [19]; x. 26.
Coccus, x. 36.
Cocytus, i. [17]. (Cf. Virgil, Æneid, vi. 132, “Cocytusque sinu labens circumvenit atro,” and Horace, Odes, ii. 14-17, 18.)
Colophon, vii. 3, 5; ix. 32.
Colossuses, i. [18], [42]. (If gentle reader objects to this plural let me cite Sir T. Herbert, “In that isle he also defaced an hundred other colossuses.”—Travels, p. 267.)
Comætho, her love-passages with Melanippus, vii. 19.
Commentaries of events, i. [12].
Conon, son of Timotheus, i. [1], [2], [3], [24], [29]; iii. [9]; vi. [3], [7]; viii. 52.
Cordax, a dance, vi. [22].
Coresus, see Callirhoe.
Corinna, ix. 20, 22.
Corinth, taken by Mummius, ii. [1]; vii. 16. Rebuilt by Julius Cæsar, ii. [1], [3]; v. [1].
Corœbus, the Argive, i. [43].
Corpses, remarkable, v. [20], [27]; viii. 29.
Corsica, x. 17.
Corybantes, iii. [24]; viii. 37.
Cos, island, iii. [23]; vi. [14], [17]; viii. 43.
Cosmosandalum, ii. [35].
Costoboci, x. 34.
Creon, i. [3]; ix. 5, 10.
Cresphontes, son of Aristomachus, ii. [18]; iv. [3], [5], [31]; v. [3]. Marries the daughter of Cypselus, iv. [3]; viii. 5, 29.
Crete, island of, iii. [2]; vii. 2; viii. 38, 53. Cretan bowmen, i. [23]; iv. [8]; vii. 16.
Crocodiles, i. [33]; ii. [28]; iv. [34].
Crœsus, iii. [10]; iv. [5]; viii. 24.
Cronos, (the Latin Saturnus,) i. [18]; viii. 8, 36; ix. 2, 41; x. 24.
Crotonians, their tradition about Helen, iii. [19]. Milo a native of Croton, vi. [14]. Wolves numerous in the neighbourhood of Croton, vi. [14].
Crowns in the games, viii. 48.
Cuckoo and Hera, ii. [17].
Curetes, iv. [31], [33]; v. [7]; viii. 2, 37; x. 38.
Cybele, see the Dindymene Mother.
Cyclades, islands, i. [1]; v. [21], [23].
Cyclopes, their buildings, ii. [16], [20], [25]; vii. 25.
Cycnus, a Celtic king, tradition about, i. [30].
Cydias, his prowess against the Galati, x. 21.
Cydnus, a river that flows through the district of Tarsus, a cold river, viii. 28.
Cynoscephalæ, battle of, vii. 8.
Cyprus, claims to be birth-place of Homer, x. 24.
Cypselus, his chest, v. [17], [18], [19].
Dædalus, the famous Athenian, son of Palamaon, why called Dædalus, ix. 3. A contemporary of Œdipus, x. 17. Fled to Crete, why, i. [21]; vii. 4; viii. 53. His pupils, ii. [15]; iii. [17]; v. [25]. His works of art, i. [27]; ii. [4]; viii. 16, 35, 46; ix. 11, 39.
Dædalus of Sicyon, statuary also, vi. [2], [3], [6]; x. 9.
Damophon, the best Messenian statuary, iv. [31]; vii. 23; viii. 31, 37.
Danae, daughter of Acrisius and mother of Perseus, her brazen chamber, ii. [23]; x. 5. (Horace’s “turris aenea.”)
Danaus, how he became king of Argos, ii. [19]. His daughters’ savageness, ii. [16], [24]; x. 10. How he got them second husbands, iii. [12].
Daphne, and the crown of laurel in the Pythian games, x. 7.
Darius, the son of Hystaspes, iii. [4], [9], [12]; vii. 10.
Decelea, iii. [8].
Delium, i. [29]; ix. 6, 20; x. 28.
Delphi, x. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Delta, ii. [21]; vi. [26].
Demaratus, a seven-month child, iii. [4], [7].
Demeter, (the Latin Ceres,) i. [14], [37], [39], [43]; ii. [35]; viii. 15, 25, 42. See also Triptolemus.
Demetrius, the son of Antigonus, i. [6], [10], [25], [36]; ix. 7.
Demo, the Sibyl of Cumæ, x. 12.
Democracies, none in Greece in old times, ix. 1. No democracy that we know of but Athens ever rose to greatness, iv. [35]. Remark on, i. [8].
Demosthenes, the son of Alcisthenes, i. [13], [29].
Demosthenes, the son of Demosthenes, i. [8]; ii. [33].
Despœna, viii. 37. See also Proserpine.
Deucalion, his flood, i. [18], [40]; v. [8]; x. 6.
Dicæarchia, iv. [35]; viii. 7. (Puteoli.)
Dice, vi. [24]; vii. 25; x. 30.
Dindymene Mother, vii. 17, 20; viii. 46; ix. 25. (That is Cybele.)
Diocles, ii. [14].
Diomede, king of Thrace, iii. [18]; v. [10].
Diomede, who led the Argives to Troy, i. [11], [28]; ii. [30], [32]; x. 31. Runs off with the Palladium, i. [22].
Dionysius, the tyrant, i. [2]; vi. [2].
Dionysus, (the Latin Bacchus,) father of Priapus, ix. 31. Son of Zeus by Semele, iii. [24]. Fetches up Semele from Hades, ii. [31], [37]. Punishes Antiope, ix. 17. Takes Ariadne from Theseus, x. 29. Many legends about him, x. 29. His orgies, x. 33; ii. [2], [7].
Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), iii. [13], [26]; iv. [31]. Visit the house of Phormio, iii. [16]. Their anger against the Messenians, iv. [16], [26]. Origin of their anger, iv. [27]. Their particular kind of hats, iii. [24]; iv. [27]. Called Anactes, ii. [36]; x. 38.
Diotimus, the father of Milo, of Croton, vi. [14].
Dipœnus and Scyllis, pupils of Dædalus, statuaries, ii. [15], [22], [32]; iii. [17]; v. [17]; vi. [19]; ix. 35.
Dirce, the legend about her, ix. 17, 25.
Divination, various modes of, iii. [23], [26]; iv. [32]; vi. [2]; vii. 21, 25; ix. 11.
Dodona, i. [17]; vii. 21, 25; viii. 11, 23, 28; ix. 25; x. 12.
Dog, cure for bite of, viii. 19.
Dolphin, i. [44]; ii. [1]; iii. [25]; x. 13.
Dontas, pupil of Dipœnus and Scyllis, vi. [19].
Doric Architecture, v. [10], [16]; vi. [24]. Dorian measure, ix. 12.
Doriclydas, pupil of Dipœnus and Scyllis, v. [17].
Draco, the Athenian legislator, vi. [11]; ix. 36.
Dragon, viii. 8. Guards the apples of the Hesperides, vi. [19]. One wonderfully killed, ix. 26. Seed of the dragon’s teeth, ix. 10. Dragons sacred to Æsculapius, ii. [11], [28]. Also to Trophonius, ix. 39. Yoked to the chariot of Triptolemus, vii. 18.
Dreams, x. 2, 38. Interpreters of, i. [34]; v. [23].
Drunkenness personified, ii. [27]; vi. [24].
Dryads, viii. 4; x. 32.
Dumb bells, v. [26]; vi. [3].
Dyrrhachium, formerly Epidamnus, vi. [10].
Dysaules, brother of Celeus, and father of Triptolemus, i. [14]; ii. [12], [14].
Earth, viii. 29; x. 12. The Great Goddess, i. [31].
Earthquakes, ii. [7]; vii. 24.
Eating-contest between Lepreus and Hercules, v. [5].
Ebony, i. [42]; ii. [22]; viii. 17, 53.
Ecbatana, iv. [24].
Echetlæus, his prowess at Marathon, i. [32].
Echinades, islands, viii. 1, 24.
Echoes, wonderful ones, ii. [35]; v. [21].
Edoni, i. [29]; x. 33.
Eels of Lake Copais, ix. 24.
Eira, iv. [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23].
Elaphius, the month of, at Elis, v. [13]; vi. [20].
Electra, married to Pylades, ii. [16]; iii. [1]; ix. 40.
Elephants, i. [12]; v. [12].
Eleusinian mysteries, viii. 15; x. 31.
Eleutherolacones, iii. [21].
Elk, v. [12]; ix. 21.
Elysium, viii. 53.
Emperors, Roman, statues of, i. [40]; v. [20]; vi. [19]. See also under Adrian, Augustus, C. Julius Cæsar, Gaius, &c. Flattery to, ii. [8], Note.
Endœus, an Athenian statuary, and pupil of Dædalus, i. [26]; vii. 5; viii. 46.
Enyalius, a name for Ares, (the Latin Mars,) iii. [14], [15]; v. [18].
Enyo, i. [8]; iv. [30].
Epaminondas, iv. [26], [31]; viii. 11, 27, 49, 52; ix. 13, 14, 15.
Epeus, the constructor of the famous Wooden Horse, i. [23]; ii. [29]; x. 26.
Ephesus, temple of Artemis at, vii. 5. (Cf. Acts; xix. 27, 28. Farrar very aptly quotes Appul. Metam. ii. “Diana Ephesia, cujus nomen unicum, multiformi specie, ritu vario, nomine multijugo, totus veneratur orbis.”)
Ephors at Sparta, iii. [11].
Epicaste, mother of Œdipus, ix. 5, 26. Better known as Jocasta.
Epidaurus, a town in Argolis, ii. [26], [27], [28], [29].
Epigoni, ix. 9, 19, 25; x. 10, 25.
Epimenides, the Rip Van Winkle of Antiquity, i. [14].
Eponymi, the heroes so called at Athens, i. [5].
Erato, the Nymph, wife of Arcas, an interpreter of the oracles of Pan, viii. 4, 37; x. 9.
Erechtheus, i. [5], [26], [28], [38].
Eridanus, a Celtic river, i. [4]; v. [12], [14]; viii. 25.
Eriphyle, wife of Amphiaraus, slain by Alcmæon her son, i. [34]; viii. 24. The famous necklace, v. [17]; viii. 24; ix. 41; x. 29.
Erymanthian boar, viii. 24.
Eryx, conquered in wrestling by Hercules, iii. [16]; iv. [36]; viii. 24.
Essenes of Ephesian Artemis, viii. 13.
Eteocles, the son of Œdipus, v. [19]; ix. 5.
Eubœa, v. [23]; viii. 14.
Euclides, an Athenian statuary, vii. 25, 26.
Euclus, x. 12, 14, 24.
Evœ, the Bacchic cry, iv. [31]. (See Horace’s Odes, ii. 19-5-7.)
Euphorion, ii. [22]; x. 26.
Euphrates, the river, iv. [34]; x. 29.
Eupolis, where buried, ii. [7].
Euripides, i. [2], [21].
Euripus, near Chalcis, i. [23], [38].
Eurotas, river in Laconia, iii. [1], [21]; viii. 44, 54.
Euryclides, an Athenian orator, poisoned by Philip, ii. [9].
Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus, ix. 30.
Eurypontidæ, ii. [36]; iii. [7], [12]; iv. [4].
Eurypylus, vii. 19.
Eurystheus, his tomb, i. [44]. His hostility to Hercules, iv. [34].
Eurytion, a Centaur, v. [10]; vii. 18.
Fables of the Greeks, how to be understood, viii. 8.
Filial piety, instances of, ii. [20]; x. 28.
Fire, its inventor, ii. [19]. Ever-burning, v. [15]; viii. 9, 37. Magically lighted, v. [27].
Fish, vocal in the river Aroanius, viii. 21.
Flax, v. [5]; vi. [26]; vii. 21.
Flute-playing, iv. [27]; ix. 12.
Food, primitive, viii. 1.
Foolish desires a source of ruin, viii. 24.
Fortune, iv. [30].
Friendship of Phocus and Iaseus, x. 30.
Furies of Clytæmnestra, viii. 34. Furies euphemistically called The Venerable Ones, i. [28]. Compare vii. 25.
Gaius, the Roman Emperor, end of, ix. 27.
Galati, their cavalry-arrangements, x. 19. Their irruption into Greece, x. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23.
Ganymede, v. [24].
Gelanor, ii. [19].
Gerenia, called by Homer Enope, iii. [26].
Germans, viii. 43.
Geryon, i. [35]; iii. [16]; iv. [36]; v. [19].
Getæ, the, added to the Roman Empire by Trajan, v. [12]. Brave in battle, i. [9].
Giants, the, viii. 29, 32, 36, 47.
Girding oneself, ix. 17.
Girdles worn round the loins in the races at Olympia, i. [44].
Glaucus of Carystus, story about, vi. [10].
Glaucus of Chios, x. 16.
Glaucus, the god of the sea, vi. [10].
Gobryas, i. [1]; iii. [11]; ix. 1.
Gods, the twelve, i. [3], [40]; viii. 25. Unknown gods, i. [1]; v. [14].
Gorgias of Leontini, vi. [17]; x. 18.
Gorgon, ii. [21]. See also Medusa.
Gorgus, the son of Aristomenes, iv. [19], [21], [23].
Graces, ix. 35.
Grasshoppers, idiosyncrasy of, vi. [6].
Greeks, apt to admire things out of their own country, ix. 36. Numbers that fought against Xerxes and the Galati, x. 20. Munificence of in their worship of the gods, v. [12].
Griffins, i. [24].
Gryllus, the son of Xenophon, i. [3]; viii. 9, 11; ix. 15.
Gymnopædia, festival of, iii. [11].
Gythium, Lacedæmonian arsenal, i. [27]; iii. [21]; viii. 50.
Hair, shorn to river-gods, i. [37]; viii. 41. See also viii. 20.
Halirrhothius, i. [21], [28].
Hannibal, oracle about his death, viii. 11.
Happiness only intermittent, viii. 24.
Harmodius, i. [8], [29].
Harmosts, officers among the Lacedæmonians, ix. 6, 32.
Harpies, iii. [18]; v. [17]; x. 30.
Hebe, i. [19]; ii. [13], [17]; viii. 9.
Hecas, the seer, iv. [16], [21].
Hecatæus, the Milesian, iii. [25]; iv. [2]; viii. 4, 47.
Hecate, i. [43]; ii. [22], [30].
Hecatomphonia, iv. [19].
Hector, son of Priam, iii. [18]; v. [25]; ix. 18; x. 31.
Hecuba, x. 12, 27.
He-goat, oracle about, iv. [20].
Helen, the famous, a woe to Europe and Asia, x. 12. Tradition about, iii. [19]. Her maids, x. 25. Oath taken about, iii. [20].
Helen, a Jewess, her tomb, viii. 16.
Helenus, son of Priam, i. [11]; ii. [23]; v. [22].
Helicon, a mountain in Bœotia, ix. 26, 27, 28, 29.
Hellas in Thessaly, gave name to the Hellenes, iii. [20].
Hellebore, x. 36, 37.
Helots, iii. [11], [20]; iv. [23], [24]; viii. 51.
Hephæstus, (the Latin Vulcan,) i. [20]; ii. [31]; iii. [17]; viii. 53; ix. 41.
Hera, (the Latin Juno,) i. [18]; ii. [15]; v. [16]; vi. [24]. Story about her quarrel and reconciliation with Zeus, ix. 3. Becomes a virgin again annually, ii. [38]. The cuckoo in connection with her, ii. [17]. The peacock sacred to her, ii. [17].
Heraclidæ, Return of the, ii. [13], [18]; iii. [1]; iv. [3].
Hercules, the Egyptian, x. 13.
Hercules, the son of Amphitryon, his Colonnade, vi. [23]. Hunts the Erymanthian boar, viii. 24. Fights against the Amazons, v. [11], [25]. Relieves Atlas, v. [10], [11]. Brings up Cerberus from Hades, ii. [31], [35]; iii. [25]; ix. 34. Cleans Elis, v. [1], [10]; ix. 11. Drives off the oxen of Geryon, iii. [16], [18]; iv. [36]; v. [19]. Overcomes the Nemean lion, iii. [18]; v. [11]; vi. [5]; viii. 13. Has an eating contest with Lepreus, v. [5]. First accounted a god by the people of Marathon, i. [15], [32]. Taken to heaven by Athene, iii. [18], [19]. Kills Nessus, iii. [18]. Introduces into Greece the white poplar, v. [14]. Liberates Prometheus, v. [10]. His club, ii. [31]. His Labours, iii. [17]; v. [10], [26].
Hercules, the Idæan, v. [7], [13]; ix. 27.
Heredity, i. [6]; viii. 5, 13.
Hermæ, i. [17], [24]; iv. [33]; viii. 39; x. 12.
Hermes, (the Latin Mercury,) vii. 27; viii. 14. Steals Apollo’s oxen, vii. 20. Takes the goddesses to Paris for the choice of beauty, iii. [18]; v. [19]. Invents the lyre, ii. [19]; v. [14]; viii. 17.
Herodes Atticus, i. [19]; ii. [1]; vi. [21]; vii. 20; x. 32.
Herodotus, quoted or alluded to, i. [5], [28], [43]; ii. [16], [20], [30]; iii. [2], [25]; v. [26]; viii. 27; ix. 23, 36; x. 20, 32, 33.
Herophile, a Sibyl, x. 12.
Hesiod, i. [2]; ix. 30, 31, 38; x. 7. Quoted or alluded to, i. [24]; ii. [9].
Hesperides, v. [11]; vi. [19].
Hides, garments made of, viii. 1; x. 38. Used as shields in battle, iv. [11].
Hieronymus of Cardia, historian, i. [9], [13].
Hilaira and Phœbe, ii. [22]; iii. [16]; iv. [31].
Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus, i. [8], [23], [29].
Hippocrene, ii. [31]; ix. 31.
Hippodamia, daughter of Œnomaus, v. [11], [14], [16], [17]; vi. [20], [21]; viii. 14.
Hippodrome at Olympia, vi. [20].
Hippolyta, leader of the Amazons, i. [41].
Hippolytus, son of Theseus, i. [22]; ii. [27], [31], [32]; iii. [22].
Hippopotamus, iv. [34]; v. [12]; viii. 46.
Homer, his age and birthplace, ix. 30; x. 24. His oracle, viii. 24; x. 24. His poverty, ii. [33]. On Homer generally, i. [2]; iv. [28], [33]; vii. 5, 26; ix. 40; x. 7. Homer is quoted very frequently, viz., i. [13], [28], [37]; ii. [3], [6], [7], [12], [14], [16], [21], [24], [25], [26]; iii. [2], [7], [18], [19], [20], [21], [24], [25], [26]; iv. [1], [9], [30], [32], [33], [36]; v. [6], [8], [11], [14], [24]; vi. [5], [22], [26], [26]; vii. 1, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26; viii. 1, 3, 8, 16, 18, 24, 25, 29, 37, 38, 41, 48, 50; ix. 5, 17, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41; x. 5, 6, 8, 14, 17, 22, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36, 37.
Hoopoe, i. [41]; x. 4.
Hoplodamus assists Rhea, viii. 32, 36.
Horns of animals, v. [12]. Horn of Amalthea, vi. [25].
Horse, curious story in connection with, v. [27]. The famous Wooden Horse, i. [23]; x. 9. Winged horses, v. [17], [19].
Hyacinth, the flower, i. [35]; ii. [35].
Hyampolis, a town in Phocis, x. 1, 3, 35.
Hyantes, ix. 5, 35.
Hydarnes, a general of Xerxes, iii. [4]; x. 22.
Hydra, ii. [37]; v. [5]; v. [17].
Hygiea, daughter of Æsculapius, i. [23]; v. [20]. Her temple, iii. [22].
Hyllus, son of Hercules, i. [35], [41], [44]; iv. [30]; viii. 5, 45, 53.
Hymettus, famous for its bees, i. [32].
Hyperboreans, i. [31]; v. [7]; x. 5.
Hypermnestra, ii. [19], [20], [21], [25]; x. 10, 35.
Hyrieus, his treasury, story about, ix. 37.
Hyrnetho, daughter of Temenus, ii. [19], [23]. Her tragic end, ii. [28].
Iamidæ, seers at Elis, descendants of Iamus, iii. [11], [12]; iv. [16]; vi. [2]; viii. 10.
Ibycus, the poet, ii. [6].
Icarus, the son of Dædalus, ix. 11.
Ichnusa, the old name of Sardinia, x. 17.
Idæan Dactyli, v. [7].
Iliad, The Little, iii. [26]; x. 26.
Ilissus, a river in Attica, i. [19].
Ilithyia, i. [18]; viii. 32; ix. 27.
Immortals, The, vi. [6]; x. 19.
Inachus, a river, ii. [15], [18], [25]; viii. 6.
Indian sages taught the immortality of the soul, iv. [32]. India famous for wild beasts, iv. [34]; viii. 29.
Ino, i. [42], [44]; iii. [23], [24], [26]; iv. [34]; ix. 5.
Inscriptions, ox-fashion, v. [17].
Inventions, source of, viii. 31.
Inundations, destruction caused by, vii. 24; viii. 14.
Io, daughter of Inachus, i. [25]; iii. [18].
Iodama, ix. 34.
Iolaus, nephew of Hercules, vii. 2; viii. 14. Shares in his uncle’s Labours, i. [19]; viii. 45. Kills Eurystheus, i. [44]. Colonizes Sardinia, vii. 2; x. 17. His hero-chapel, ix. 23.
Ion, the son of Xuthus, i. [31]; vii. 1.
Iphiclus, the father of Protesilaus, iv. [36]; v. [17]; x. 31.
Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, i. [33], [43]; iii. [16]; ix. 19.
Iphimedea, mother of Otus and Ephialtes, ix. 22; x. 28.
Iphitus, king of Elis, v. [4], [8]; viii. 26.
Iphitus, the son of Eurytus, iii. [15]; x. 13.
Iris, the flower, ix. 41.
Iron, first fused, iii. [12]; x. 16.
Ischepolis, son of Alcathous, killed by the Calydonian boar, i. [42], [43].
Isis, the Egyptian goddess, i. [41]; ii. [4], [13], [32], [34]; v. [25]; x. 32.
Ismenius, a river in Bœotia, ix. 9, 10.
Isocrates, i. [18].
Issedones, i. [24], [31]; v. [7].
Isthmian games, i. [44]; ii. [1], [2]. People of Elis excluded from them, v. [2]; vi. [16].
Ister, river, viii. 28, 38.
Ithome, iv. [9], [13], [14], [24], [31].
Ivory, i. [12]; v. [11], [12]; vii. 27.
Ivy-cuttings, feast so called, ii. [13].
Jason, husband of Medea, ii. [3]; v. [17].
Jay, anecdote about the, viii. 12.
Jerusalem, viii. 16.
Jocasta, ix. 5. (Called Epicaste, ix. 26.)
Joppa, iv. [35].
Jordan, the famous river, v. [7].
Keys, the three keys of Greece, vii. 7.
Kites, idiosyncrasy of at Olympia, v. [14].
Labyrinth of the Minotaur in Crete, i. [27]. (Cf. Virg. Æneid, v. 588-591. Ovid, Metamorphoses, viii. 159-168.)
Lacedæmonians go out on campaign only when the moon is at its full, i. [28]. Go out to battle not to the sound of the trumpet, but to flutes lyres and harps, iii. [17]. Care not for poetry, iii. [8]. Tactics in battle, iv. [8]. Always conceal their losses in battle, ix. 13. Their forces at Thermopylæ, x. 20. Their kings, how tried, iii. [5].
Lacedæmonian dialect, iii. [15]. Brevity, iv. [7].
Laconia originally called Lelegia, iv. [1].
Ladder-pass, viii. 6.
Læstrygones, viii. 29; x. 22.
Lais, ii. [2].
Laius, son of Labdacus, King of Thebes, ix. 5, 26; x. 5.
Lamp of Athene, ever burning, i. [26].
Lampsacus, people of, anecdote about, vi. [18]. Great worshippers of Priapus, ix. 31.
Laomedon, father of Priam, vii. 20; viii. 36.
Lapithæ, their fight with the Centaurs, i. [17]; v. [10].
La Rochefoucauld anticipated by Pindar. Note, x. 22.
Laurium, its silver mines, i. [1].
Law-courts at Athens, various names of, i. [28].
Leæna, mistress of Aristogiton, i. [23].
Lebadea in Bœotia, sacred to Trophonius, i. [34]; ix. 39.
Lechæum, ii. [1], [2]; ix. 14, 15; x. 37.
Leda, i. [33]; iii. [13], [16].
Leonidas, the hero of Thermopylæ, i. [13]; iii. [3], [4], [14]; viii. 52.
Leontini, the birth-place of the famous Gorgias, vi. [17].
Leprosy, cure for, v, 5. (Credat Judæus Apella!)
Lesbos, iii. [2]; iv. [35]; x. 19, 24.
Lescheos, author of the Capture of Ilium, x. 25, 26, 27.
Leto, (the Latin Latona,) i. [18], [31]; iii. [20]; viii. 53.
Leucippus, his love for Daphne, viii. 20.
Leuctra, i. [13]; iv. [26]; viii. 27; ix. 6, 13, 14.
Libya, famous for wild beasts, ii. [21].
Libyssa, where Hannibal died, viii. 11.
Linus, ix. 29.
Lipara, x. 11, 16.
Lophis, story about, ix. 33. (Cf. story of Jephthah.)
Lounges, iii. [14], [15]; x. 25.
Lots, iv. [3]; v. [25].
Love, its power, vii. 19. Success in love, vii. 26. Cure of melancholy caused by, vii. 5. Little sympathy with lovers from older people, vii. 19. Tragedies through love, i. [30]; vii 21; viii. 20.
Lycomidæ, i. [22]; iv. [1]; ix. 27, 30.
Lycortas, iv. [29]; vii. 9; viii. 50.
Lycurgus, the famous legislator, iii. [2], [14], [16], [18]; v. [4].
Lygdamis, the father of Artemisia, iii. [11].
Lygdamis, the Syracusan, as big as Hercules, v. [8].
Lynceus, son of Aphareus, his keen eyesight, iv. [2]. Slain by Pollux, iv. [3].
Lynceus, the husband of Hypermnestra, ii. [19], [21], [25]. Succeeds Danaus, ii. [16].
Lyre, invented by Hermes, v. [14]; viii. 17. First used by Amphion, ix. 5.
Lysander, iii. [5], [6], [8], [11], [17], [18]; ix. 32; x. 9.
Lysippus, a Sicyonian statuary, i. [43]; ii. [9], [20]; vi. [1], [2], [4], [5], [14], [17]; ix. 27, 30.
Lysis, the early schoolmaster of Epaminondas, ix. 13.
Macaria, i. [32].
Machærion, viii. 11.
Machaon, son of Æsculapius, ii. [11], [23], [26], [38]; iii. [26]; iv. [3].
Machinery, or mechanism, at Olympia, vi. [20]. At Jerusalem, viii. 16.
Mæander, river in Asia Minor, famous for its windings, v. [14]; vii. 2; viii. 7, 24, 31; x. 32.
Magic, v. [27].
Maneros, the Egyptian Linus, ix. 29.
Mantinea, ii. [8]; viii. 3, 8, 12.
Manto, daughter of Tiresias, vii. 3; ix. 10, 33.
Marathon, i. [15], [32]; iv. [25]; x. 20.
Mardonius, son of Gobryas, i. [1], [27]; iii. [4]; vii. 25; ix. 1, 2, 23. Panic of his men, i. [40]; ix. 25.
Marpessa, the Widow, viii. 47, 48.
Marsyas, i. [24]; ii. [7]; viii. 9; x. 30.
Martiora, ix. 21.
Mausoleums, viii. 16.
Mausolus, viii. 16.
Medea, ii. [3], [12]; viii. 11.
Medusa, the Gorgon, i. [21]; ii. [20], [21]; v. [10], [12], [18]; viii. 47; ix. 34.
Megalopolis, ii. [9], [27]; iv. [29]; vi. [12]; viii. 27, 30, 33; ix. 14. Its theatre, ii. [27].
Megara, i. [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44]; vii. 15.
Megaris, i. [39], [44].
Meleager, ii. [7]; iv. [2]; x. 31.
Melicerta, i. [44]; ii. [1]; ix. 34.
Memnon, his statue, i. [42].
Memnonides, birds so called, x. 31.
Memphis, i. [18].
Menander, i. [2], [21].
Menelaus, the son of Atreus and husband of Helen, iii. [1], [14], [19]; v. [18]; x. 25, 26.
Menestratus, ix. 26.
Miletus, vii. 2, 24; viii. 24, 49; x. 33.
Milo, of Croton, his wonderful strength, vi. [14].
Miltiades, son of Cimon, i. [32]; ii. [29]; vi. [19]; vii. 15; viii. 52.
Minos, i. [17], [27]; ii. [30], [34]; iii. [2]; vii. 2, 4; viii. 53.
Minotaur, i. [27]; iii. [18].
Minyad, the poem so called, iv. [33]; ix. 5; x. 28, 31.
Mirrors, remarkable ones, vii. 21; viii. 37.
Mithridates, king of Pontus, i. [20]; iii. [23]; ix. 7.
Money, its substitute in old times, iii. [12].
Moon enamoured of Endymion, v. [1]. Full moon and the Lacedæmonians, i. [28].
Mullets, love mud, iv. [34].
Mummius, ii. [1], [2]; vii. 15, 16. His gifts at Olympia, v. [10], [24].
Musæus, i. [14], [22], [25]; iv. [1]; x. 5, 7, 9, 12.
Muses, the, ix. 29.
Mycenæ, ii. [15], [16]; v. [23]; vii. 25; viii. 27, 33; ix. 34.
Myrtilus, the son of Hermes, ii. [18]; v. [1], [10]; vi. [20]; viii. 14.
Myrtle, sacred to Aphrodite, vi. [24].
Myrtoan sea, why so called, viii. 14.
Myus, its mosquitoes, vii. 2.
Nabis, tyrant at Sparta, iv. [29]; vii. 8; viii. 50.
Naked, its meaning among the ancients. See Note, x. 27.
Names, confusion in same names general, viii. 15. Different method of giving names among Greeks and Romans, vii. 7.
Narcissus, ix. 31, 41.
Naupactian poems, ii. [3]; iv. [2]; x. 38.
Naupactus, iv. [24], [26]; vi. [16]; ix. 25, 31; x. 38.
Nausicaa, daughter of Alcinous, i. [22]; v. [19].
Neda, river, iv. [20], [36]; v. [6]; viii. 38, 41.
Neleus, iv. [2], [36]; v. [8]; x. 29, 31. His posterity, ii. [18]; iv. [3].
Nemean games, ii. [15], [24]; vi. [16]; viii. 48; x. 25.
Nemesis, i. [33]; vii. 5, 20; ix. 35.
Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, the Retribution of, iv. [17]. (As to Neoptolemus generally, see Pyrrhus.)
Nereids, ii. [1]; iii. [26]; v. [19].
Nereus, iii. [21].
Nero, the Roman Emperor, ii. [17], [37]; v. [12], [25], [26]; vii. 17; ix. 27; x. 7.
Nessus, iii. [18]; x. 38.
Nestor, iii. [26]; iv. [3], [31], [36].
Nicias, the Athenian General, i. [29].
Nicias, animal painter, i. [29]; iii. [19]; iv. [31]; vii. 22.
Nicopolis, founded by Augustus, v. [23]; vii. 18; x. 8, 38.
Nicostratus, v. [21].
Night, v. [18]; vii. 5.
Night-attack, ingenious, x. 1.
Nightingales at Orpheus’ tomb, ix. 30.
Nile, famous river of Egypt, i. [33]; ii. [5]; iv. [34]; v. [7], [14]; viii. 24; x. 32.
Nineveh, viii. 33.
Niobe, i. [21]; ii. [21]; v. [11], [16]; viii. 2.
Nisus, i. [19], [39]; ii. [34].
North wind, viii. 27. (Boreas.)
Nymphs, iii. [10]; iv. [27]; ix. 24; x. 31.
Nymphon, ii. [11].
Oceanus, i. [33].
Ocnus, x. 29. See Note.
Octavia, her temple at Corinth, ii 3.
Odeum at Athens, i. [8], [14]; vii. 20.
Odysseus, (the Latin Ulysses,) i. [22], [35]; iii. [12], [20]; iv. [12]; v. [25]; vi. [6]; viii. 3, 14, 44; x. 8, 26, 28, 29, 31.
Œdipodia, ix. 5.
Œdipus, i. [28], [30]; ix. 2, 5, 26; x. 5.
Œnobius, i. [23].
Œnomaus, v. [1], [10], [14], [17], [20], [22]; vi. [18], [20], [21]; viii. 14, 20.
Œnotria, viii. 3.
Œta, Mount, iii. [4]; vii. 15; x. 22.
Olen, i. [18]; ii. [13]; v. [7]; viii. 21; ix. 27; x. 5.
Oligarchies, established by Mummius, vii. 16, Note.
Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemus, mother of Alexander the Great, i. [11], [25]; iv. [14]; viii 7; ix. 7.
Olympus, Mount, in Thessaly, vi. [5].
Olynthus, iii. [5].
Onatas, Æginetan statuary, v. [25], [27]; vi. [12]; viii. 42; x. 13.
Onga, ix. 12.
Onomacritus, i 22; viii. 31, 37; ix. 35.
Ophioneus, the seer, iv. [10], [12], [13].
Ophitea, legend about, x. 33.
Opportunity, the youngest son of Zeus, v. [14].
Oracles, ambiguous, viii. 11. (Compare case of ‘Jerusalem’ in Shakspere, 2 Henry IV., Act iv., Scene iv., 233-241.)
Orestes, son of Agamemnon, i. [28]; ii. [18], [31]; iii. [1], [16], [22]; vii. 25; viii. 5, 34.
Orithyia, i. [19]; v. [19].
Orontes, a river in Syria, vi. [2]; viii. 20, 29, 33; x. 20.
Orpheus, i. [14], [37]; ii. [30]; iii. [13], [14], [20]; v. [26]; vi. [20]; ix. 17, 27, 30.
Osiris, x. 32.
Osogo, viii. 10.
Ostrich, ix. 31.
Otilius, vii. 7; x. 36.
Otus and Ephialtes, ix. 29.
Ox-killer, i. [24], [28].
Oxen given in barter, iii. [12].
Oxyartes, father of Roxana, i. [6].
Oxylus, curious tale about, v. [3].
Ozolian, x. 38.
Palæmon, i. [44]; ii. [2]; viii. 48.
Palamedes, ii. [20]; x. 31.
Palladium, i. [28]; ii. [23].
Pamphus, i. [38], [39]; vii. 21; viii. 35, 37; ix. 27, 29, 31, 35.
Pan, i. [28]; viii. 26, 31, 36, 38, 54.
Panic fear, x. 23.
Parian stone, i. [14], [33], [43]; v. [11], [12]; viii. 25.
Paris, iii. [22]; v. [19]; x. 31.
Parnassus, Mount, x. 4, 5, 6, 8, 32, 33.
Parrots come from India, ii. [28]. (Did Pausanias remember Ovid’s “Psittacus Eois imitatrix ales ab Indis.” Amor. ii. 6. 1.)
Parthenon at Athens, i. [24]; viii. 41.
Patroclus, the friend of Achilles, iii. [24]; iv. [28]; x. 13, 26, 30.
Patroclus, Egyptian Admiral, i. [1]; iii. [6].
Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus, i. [13]; iii. [17]; viii. 52.
Pausanias, a Macedonian, murderer of Harpalus, ii. [33].
Peacock sacred to Hera, ii. [17].
Peace with Wealth, i. [8]; ix. 16.
Pegasus, ii. [4], [31]; ix. 31.
Pelagos, viii. 11. See Oracles, ambiguous.
Peleus, father of Achilles, i. [37]; ii. [29]; iii. [18]; v. [18]; viii. 45; x. 30.
Pelias, iv. [2]; v. [8], [17]; viii. 11; x. 30.
Pelion, Mount, x. 19.
Peloponnesian War, iii. [7]; iv. [6]; viii. 41, 52.
Pelops, ii. [18], [22], [26]; v. [1], [8], [10], [13], [17]; vi. [20], [21], [24]; viii. 14; ix. 40.
Pencala, river in Phrygia, viii. 4; x. 32.
Penelope, wife of Odysseus, iii. [12], [13], [20]; viii. 12.
Pentelicus, a mountain in Attica, famous for its stone quarries, i. [19], [32].
Penthesilea, v. [11]; x. 31.
Pentheus, i. [20]; ii. [2]; ix. 2, 5.
Periander, son of Cypselus, one of the Seven Wise Men, i. [23]; x. 24.
Pericles, i. [25], [28], [29]; viii. 41.
Perjury punished, ii. [2], [18]; iv. [22]; v. [24].
Pero, the matchless daughter of Neleus, x. 31.
Perseus, son of Danae, and grandson of Acrisius, i. [22]; ii. [15], [16], [20], [21], [22], [27]; iii. [17]; iv. [35]; v. [18].
Persians, i. [18], [32], [33]; iii. [9]; ix. 32. Their shields called Gerrha, viii. 50; x. 19.
Petroma, viii. 15.
Phæacians, iii. [18]; viii. 29.
Phædra, the wife of Theseus, enamoured of her stepson Hippolytus, i. [22]; ii. [32]; ix. 16; x. 29.
Phaennis, a prophetess, x. 15, 20.
Phaethon, i. [3].
Phalanthus, x. 10, 13.
Phalerum, i. [1], [28].
Phemonoe, first priestess of Apollo at Delphi, x. 5, 6, 12.
Phidias, famous Athenian statuary, i. [3], [4], [24], [28], [33], [40]; v. [10], [11]; vi. [4], [25], [26]; vii. 27; ix. 4, 10; x. 10. His descendants, v. [14].
Philammon, father of Thamyris, iv. [33]; x. 7.
Philip, oracle about the two Philips, vii. 8.
Philip, the son of Amyntas, i. [6], [25]; ii. [20]; iii. [7], [24]; iv. [28]; v. [4]; vii. 7, 10, 11; viii. 7, 27; ix. 1, 37; x. 2, 3, 36.
Philip, the son of Demetrius, i. [36]; ii. [9]; vi. [16]; vii. 7, 8; viii. 8, 50; x. 33, 34.
Philoctetes, v. [13]; viii. 8, 33; x. 27.
Philomela, i. [5], [14], [41]; x. 4.
Philomelus, x. 2, 8, 33.
Philopœmen, son of Craugis, iv. [29]; vii. 9; viii. 27, 49, 51, 52.
Phocian Resolution, x. 1.
Phocian War, iv. [28]; ix. 6; x. 3.
Phœbe, see Hilaira.
Phœnix, x. 26.
Phormio, son of Asopichus, i. [23], [29]; x. 11.
Phormio, the fisherman of Erythræ, vii. 5.
Phormio inhospitable to Castor and Pollux, iii. [16].
Phoroneus, ii. [15], [19], [20], [21].
Phrixus, son of Athainas, i. [24]; ix. 34, 38.
Phrontis, the pilot of Menelaus, x. 25.
Phryne, beloved by Praxiteles, i. [20]; ix. 27; x. 15.
Phrynichus, play of, x. 31.
Phytalus, i. [37].
Pillars, viii. 45.
Pindar, i. [8]; ix. 22, 23, 25; x. 24. Quoted or alluded to, i. [2], [41]; iii. [25]; iv. [2], [30]; v. [14], [22]; vi. [2]; vii. 2, 26; ix. 22; x. 5, 16, 22.
Piræus, i. [1].
Pirithous, son of Zeus, and friend of Theseus, i. [17], [30]; v. [10]; viii. 45; x. 29.
Pisander of Camirus, ii. [37]; viii. 22.
Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, i. [3], [23]; ix. 6. Collects Homer’s Poems, vii. 26.
Pittacus of Mitylene, one of the Seven Wise Men, x. 24.
Plane-trees, wonderful, vii. 22, with Note.
Platanistas at Sparta, iii. [11], [14].
Platæa, battle at, v. [23]; vi. [3]; ix. 2; x. 15.
Plato, the famous, i. [30]; iv. [32]. Quoted, vii. 17. Cited, x. 24.
Pluto, i. [38]; ii. [36]; ix. 23.
Poets, at kings’ courts, i. [3]. Statues of, ix. 30.
Pollux, see Dioscuri.
Polybius, viii. 9, 30, 37, 44, 48.
Polycletus, Argive statuary, ii. [17], [20], [22], [24], [27]; vi. [2], [4], [7], [9], [13]; viii. 31.
Polycrates, i. [2]; viii. 14.
Polydamas, vi. [5].
Polydectes, i. [22].
Polygnotus, famous Thasian painter, i. [18], [22]; ix. 4; x. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.
Polynices, son of Œdipus, ii. [19], [20], [25]; iv. [8]; ix. 5; x. 10.
Polyxena, i. [22]; x. 25.
Pomegranate, ii. [17]; vi. [14]; viii. 37; ix. 25.
Poplar, ii. [10]; v. [13], [14].
Poseidon, (the Latin Neptune,) i. [24], [27], [30]; ii. [1], [4], [22], [30]; vi. [25]; viii. 10, 25, 42.
Praxias, x. 19.
Praxiteles, the famous, lover of Phryne, i. [2], [20], [23], [40], [43], [44]; ii. [21]; v. [17]; vi. [26]; ix. 1, 2, 11, 27, 39; x. 15, 37.
Priam, ii. [24]; iv. [17]; x. 25, 27.
Priapus, ix. 31.
Processions, i. [2], [29]; ii. [35]; vii. 18; x. 18.
Procne, i. [24], [41].
Procrustes, i. [38].
Prœtus, ii. [7], [12], [16], [25]; viii. 18; x. 10.
Prometheus, ii. [14], [19]; v. [10]; x. 4.
Promontory called Ass’ jawbone, iii. [22], [23].
Prophetical men and women, x. 12, with Note.
Proserpine, i. [38]; ii. [36]; iv. [30]; viii. 31, 42, 53; ix. 23, 31.
Proteus, iii. [18]; viii. 53.
Proverbs, see ii. [9]; iv. [17]; vi. [3], [10]; vii. 12; ix. 9, 30, 37; x. 1, 14, 17, 29.
Providence, v. [25].
Prusias, viii. 11.
Psamathe, i. [43]; ii. [19].
Psyttalea, island of, i. [36]; iv. [36].
Ptolemies proud of calling themselves Macedonians, x. 7, cf. vi. [3]. Much about the various Ptolemies in, i. [6], [7], [8], [9].
Purple, iii. [21]; v. [12].
Puteoli, iv. [35]; viii. 7.
Pylades, i. [22]; ii. [16], [29]; iii. [1].
Pylæ, that is Thermopylæ, ix. 15.
Pylos, iv. [2], [3], [31], [36].
Pyramids, ix. 36.
Pyrrhus (Neoptolemus), the son of Achilles, i. [4], [11], [13]; ii. [23]; iii. [20], [25], [26]; iv. [17]; x. 7, 23, 24, 25, 26.
Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, i. [6], [9], [10], [11]; iv. [29], [35].
Pythionice, i. [37].
Pytho, v. [3]; x. 6.
Quoits, ii. [16]; v. [3]; vi. [14].
Return from Ilium, Poem so called, x. 28, 29, 30.
Rhea, viii. 8, 36; ix. 2, 41.
Rhegium, iv. [23], [26]; v. [25].
Rhianus, iv. [1], [6], [15], [17].
Rhinoceros, v. [12]; ix. 21. Called also Ethiopian bull.
Rhœcus of Samos, viii. 14; ix. 41; x. 38.
Rose, sacred to Aphrodite, vi. [24].
Roxana, wife of Alexander the Great, i. [6]; ix. 7.
Sacadas, ii. [22]; iv. [27]; vi. [14]; ix. 30; x. 7.
Sacrifices, remarkable, vii. 18; viii. 29, 37.
Sails, an invention of Dædalus, ix. 11.
Salamis, i. [35], [36], [40].
Samos, vii. 2, 4, 10.
Sanctuaries, not to be approached by the profane, viii. 5; x. 32, (Procul o, procul este, profani!)
Sappho, the Lesbian Poetess, i. [25], [29]; viii. 18; ix. 27, 29.
Sardinia, x. 17.
Sardis, iii. [9]; iv. [24].
Sardonic laughter, x. 17.
Saturnus. See Cronos.
Satyrs, i. [23]. Satyr of Praxiteles, i. [20].
Scamander, v. [25].
Scedasus and his two daughters, ix. 13.
Scimetar of Cambyses, i. [28].
Scipio, viii. 30.
Sciron, killed by Theseus, i. [3], [44].
Scopas, i. [43]; ii. [10], [22]; vi. [25]; viii. 28, 45, 47; ix. 10, 17.
Scorpion with wings, ix. 21.
Scylla, daughter of Nisus, legend about, ii. [34].
Scyllis of Scione, famous diver, x. 19.
Scythians, travel in waggons, viii. 43. (Compare Horace, Odes, Book iii. Ode 24. 9-11. “Campestres melius Scythae, Quorum plaustra vagas rite trahunt domos, Vivunt.”)
Sea, Red, i. [33]. Dead, v. [7].
Seasons, v. [11], [17]; ix. 35.
Seleucia, on the Orontes, i. [16]; viii. 33.
Seleucus, son of Antiochus, i. [6], [16].
Semele, daughter of Cadmus, mother of Dionysus by Zeus, ii. [31], [37]; iii. [24]; ix. 5.
Serapis, i. [18]; ii. [4], [34]; iii. [14], [22], [25]; iv. [32]; vii. 21; ix. 24.
Ser, and the Seres, vi. [26].
Seriphus, i. [22].
Serpents, remarkable ones, viii. 4, 16. None in Sardinia, x. 17.
Sheep, accompanying Spartan kings to war, ix. 13.
Shields, Used by the Celts in fording rivers, x. 20.
Ship at Delos, i. [29].
Sibyl, ii. [7]; vii. 8; x. 9.
Sibyls, various, x. 12.
Sicily, a small hill near Athens, viii. 11.
Sight suddenly lost and recovered, iv. [10], [12]; x. 38.
Silenus, i. [4], [23]; ii. [22]; iii. [25]. Sileni mortal, vi. [24].
Simonides, i. [2]; iii. [8]; vi. [9]; ix. 2; x. 27.
Sinis, i. [37]; ii. [1]. (Pityocamptes.)
Sirens, ix. 34; x. 6.
Sisters, love of by brothers, i. [7]; iv. [2]; ix. 31.
Sisyphus, son of Æolus, ii. [1], [3], [5]; x. 31.
Sleep the god most friendly to the Muses, ii. [31].
Smyrna, v. [8]; vii. 5.
Snake, story about, x. 33.
Socrates, i. [22], [30]; ix. 35.
Solon, i. [16], [18]; x. 24.
Sophocles, i. [21], [28].
Sosigenes, viii. 31.
Sosipolis, vi. [20], [25].
Sparta, iii. [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18].
Sparti, viii. 11; ix. 5. Note. ix. 10.
Speech, ill-advised, iii. [7], [8].
Sperchius, river, x. 20, 21, 22, 23.
Sphacteria, i. [13], [15]; iii. [5]; iv. [36]; v. [26]; vi. [22].
Sphinx, the, ix. 26.
Spiders, ix. 6.
Stade. See Note, i. [1].
Stesichorus, iii. [19].
Stratagems of Homer, iv. [28].
Strongyle, a volcanic island, x. 11.
Stymphelides, birds so called, viii. 22.
Styx, river, viii. 17, 18.
Submission to an enemy, technical term for, Note on x. 20. See also iii. [12].
Sulla, i. [20]; ix. 7, 33; x. 20.
Sun-shade used by ladies, vii. 22.
Sunium, i. [1], [28].
Suppliants not to be injured with impunity, vii. 24, 25. See also iii. [4]; iv. [24].
Sus, river, ix. 30.
Susa, i. [42]; iii. [9], [16]; iv. [31]; vi. [5].
Swallows, idiosyncrasy of at Daulis, x. 4.
Swan-eagles, viii. 17.
Tænarum, promontory of, iii. [14], [25]; iv. [24].
Tantalus, ii. [22]; v. [13]; x. 30, 31.
Taraxippus, vi. [20].
Tarentum, iii. [12]; x. 10, 13.
Tarsus, viii. 28.
Telamon, son of Æacus, i. [35], [42]; ii. [29]; viii. 45.
Telesilla, ii. [20], [28], [35].
Tellias of Elis, x. 1, 13.
Tenedos, x. 14. Tenedian axe, x. 14.
Tereus, i. [5], [41]; ix. 16; x. 4.
Teucer, son of Telamon, i. [28]; viii. 15.
Thamyris, iv. [33]; ix. 5, 30; x. 7, 30.
Thebes, ii. [6]; iv. [27]; vii. 15, 17; viii. 33; ix. 3, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Themis, v. [17]; viii. 25; x. 5.
Themisto, reputed by some mother of Homer, x. 24.
Themistocles, i. [1], [36]; viii. 50, 52; x. 14.
Theoclus, Messenian seer, iv. [16], [20], [21].
Theodorus of Samos, iii. [12]; viii. 14; ix. 41; x. 38. His seal carved out of an emerald for Polycrates, viii. 14.
Thermopylæ, vii. 15; ix. 32; x. 20, 21.
Thersites, x. 31.
Theseus, i. [1], [2], [3], [17], [19], [22], [27], [37], [39], [41], [44]; ii. [1], [22], [30], [32]; iii. [18], [24]; v. [10], [11]; vii. 17; viii. 45, 48; ix. 31, 40; x. 29.
Thetis, mother of Achilles, v. [18], [22].
Thucydides, the famous Historian, i. [23]; vi. [19]. Possibly alluded to, i. [8].
Thyestes, ii. [18].
Thyiades, x. 4, 19, 32.
Thyrsus of Dionysus, iv. [36]; viii. 31.
Tiger, ix. 21.
Timagoras, tragic story of, i. [30].
Timon of Athens, the famous Misanthrope, i. [30].
Timotheus, the Milesian harper and poet, iii. [12]; viii. 50.
Tiphys, the pilot of the Argo, ix. 32.
Tiresias, vii. 3; ix. 18, 32, 33.
Tiryns, ii. [16], [17], [25]; v. [23]; vii. 25; viii. 2, 33, 46; ix. 36.
Tisias, vi. [17].
Tissaphernes, iii. [9].
Titans, the, vii. 18; viii. 37.
Tityus, iii. [18]; x. 4, 11, 29.
Tomb of Helen, a Jewess, at Jerusalem, viii. 16.
Tortoises, i. [44]; viii. 23. Lyres made out of them, ii. [19]; viii. 17, 54.
Townships of Attica, i. [31], [32], [33].
Traitors, various ones that troubled Greece, vii. 10.
Trajan, the Emperor, iv. [35]; v. [12].
Treasuries, ix. 36, 37, 38; x. 11.
Trench, the Great, iv. [6], [17], [20], [22].
Tripods, v. [17]; vii. 4.
Triptolemus, i. [14], [38]; ii. [14]; vii. 18; viii. 4.
Tritons, viii. 2; ix. 20, 21.
Trœzen, ii. [30], [31], [32], [33], [34].
Trophies, unwisdom of erecting, ix. 40.
Trophonius, iv. [16], [32]; viii. 10; ix. 11, 37, 39, 40; x. 5.
Tros, father of Ganymede, v. [24].
Troy, why it fell, x. 33. (Compare Horace, Odes, iii. 3. 18-21. “Ilion, Ilion Fatalis incestusque judex Et mulier peregrina vertit In pulverem.”)
Tyndareus, ii. [18]; iii. [1], [15], [17], [18], [21].
Tyrants, the Thirty, i. [29].
Tyrtæus, iv. [6], [8], [13], [14], [15], [16].
Ulysses. See Odysseus.
Umpires at Olympia, v. [9].
Unknown gods, i. [1]; v. [14]. (Compare Acts: xvii. 23.)
Venus. See Aphrodite.
Vermilion, viii. 39.
Vespasian, the Roman Emperor, vii. 17.
Vesta, i. [18]; ii. [35]; v. [14].
Vinegar, its effect on Pearls, viii. 18.
Voice, found through terror, x. 15.
Volcanic islands, x. 11.
Vulcan. See Hephæstus.
Water, various kinds of, iv. [35].
To whitewash two walls, Proverb, vi. [3]. See Note.
Wine elevating, iii. [19]. (“Vinum lætificat cor hominis.” Ps. ciii. 15.)
Wise Men, the Seven, i. [23]; x. 24. Their famous sayings, especially Know thyself, and Not too much of anything, x. 24.
Wolves, men turned into, vi. [8]; viii. 2. Many in the neighbourhood of Croton, vi. [14]. None in Sardinia, x. 17.
Word for the day given to soldiers, ix. 27.
Wordsworth on Daphne. See Note, x. 7.
World, centre of, x. 16.
Worshipping the deity with other people’s incense, Proverb, ix. 30.
Xanthippus, father of Pericles, i. [25]; iii. [7]; viii. 52.
Xenocrates, iv. [32]; ix. 13.
Xenophon, i. [3]; v. [6]; ix. 15.
Xerxes, i. [8]; iii. [4]; vi. [5]; viii. 42, 46; x. 7, 35.
Young, Dr., On Commentators, Preface, p. vi.
Zancle, iv. [23].
Zethus, ii. [6]; ix. 5, 8, 17.
Zeus, (the Latin Jupiter,) the chief of the gods, viii. 36. Assumed the appearance of Amphitryon, v. [18]. Traditions about his early years, iv. [33]; v. [7]; viii. 8, 28, 36, 38. His two jars, viii. 24. Represented with three eyes, why, ii. [24].

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