Parmularii, gladiators armed with a small round shield (parma).
Pheidias, the most famous sculptor of antiquity.
Philippus, founder of the Macedonian supremacy, and father of Alexander the Great.
Phocion, an Athenian general and statesman, a noble and high-minded man, 4th century B.C.
He was called by Demosthenes, "the pruner of my periods."
He was put to death by the State in 317, on a false suspicion, and left a message for his son "to bear no grudge against the Athenians."
Pine, torment.
Plato of Athens, 429-347 B.C. He used the dialectic method invented by his master Socrates.
He was, perhaps, as much poet as philosopher. He is generally identified with the Theory of Ideas, that things are what they are by participation with our eternal Idea. His "Commonwealth" was a kind of Utopia.
Platonics, followers of Plato.