Perseus, the last king of Macedon, conquered by Paulus ([q.v.]), [i, 37].
Persians, the people of Persia, the great empire of western Asia; under Darius they invaded Greece and were beaten back at Marathon (490), [i, 61]; under Xerxes were overwhelmingly defeated at Salamis (480), [i, 61]; [iii, 48], [49]; and at Plataea (479), [i, 61].
Phaedra, daughter of Minos, wife of Theseus and stepmother of Hippolytus ([q.v.]), [iii, 94].
Phaëthon, his story, [iii, 94].
Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigentum (6th century), type of inhuman cruelty, [ii, 26]; [iii, 29], [32]; slain in an uprising of his people, [ii, 26]; typical of Caesar.
Phalerum, a deme of Attica on the bay of Phalerum, [i, 3]; [ii, 60].
Pherae, a town of south-eastern Thessaly, the home of Admetus; of Jason, [i, 108]; of Alexander, [ii, 25].
Philip, conqueror, king of Macedon (359-336), educated at Thebes, cultured, [i, 90]; wise, [ii, 48]; eloquent, tactful and firm in discipline, [ii, 53].
Philip, the younger, son of Antigonus ([q.v.]), [ii, 48].
[Philippus], Lucius Marcius, orator second only to Crassus and Antonius, [i, 108]; statesman, [ii, 59]; as tribune (104), proposed agrarian reforms, [ii, 73]; dishonest policy toward the Asiatic states, [iii, 87].