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Copyrighted Material Marincola: Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography bindex Final Proof page 677 14.8.2010 8:23pm Compositor Name: ARaju General Index ab urbe condita model for Roman Aemilius Scaurus 267, 269–270 historiography 264 aemulatio 415, 430 Abradatas 560 Aeneas 68, 74, 86, 199, 253, 486, 489 Abraham 235–238, 240, 577–578 Aeneid see Vergil Abydus 343–344, 347 Aeolians 517 Achaea 356 Aequians 395 Achaean Confederation 357 Aeschines 64, 364 Achaean internees 248 Aeschylus 18, 82, 153, 340, 423, Achilles 15, 153, 448–449, 510, 528, 550 504–514 passim Alexander and 219 Eumenides 255, 506 shield of 37 Oresteia 185, 423 Acilius, C. 260, 393–394, 485 Persians 20, 153, 496, 505 acta, of Roman senate 292 Aesop, author of Res Gestae Alexandri Actium 139 Macedonis 307 Acts of the Apostles 25 Aetolian Confederacy 357 Acusilaus of Argos 81 Aetolians, in Polybius 356–362 Genealogies 79 Africa 383, 450, 543 Ad Salices, battlefield 479 Africans 501 Adam 578 Agamedes 326 Adrestians 429 Agamemnon 490, 509 Adrianople 474, 476, 478–479 Agatharchides 545 adrogantia 267 COPYRIGHTEDAgathias MATERIAL 568, 571, 580 Aegina 353 Agathocles, Athenian archon 364, 366 Aelian 560–561 Agathocles, Sicilian tyrant 196–199 Aelius Aristides 470 Agave 424 Aelius Stilo, L. 264, 523 Agelaus 249 Aelius Tubero, L. 279 Agesilaus 92, 96, 175, 529 Aelius Tubero, Q. 278–279, 391 Agesinicus 369 Aemilius Asper 567 ago¯n, in Thucydides 336–341 Aemilius Paullus, L. 247, 352, 415, 485 Agricola see Iulius Agricola, Cn. Marincola: Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography bindex Final Proof page 678 14.8.2010 8:23pm Compositor Name: ARaju 678 General Index agrimensores 551 style of 474–480 Agrippa see Vipsanius Agrippa Tacitus and 298–299 Agrippa Postumus 465 Ammon 219 Aialu 223 Ammonius 34 Airs, Waters, Places 496 Amphipolis 339 aitie¯ 46 Amyntas 132 aklea 36 anachronism, in speeches 131–132 akoe¯ 33, 43–44, 49, 52, 83 anagke¯ 422 in Strabo 53 anakuklosis 247, 256 akribeia, 32, 48 analogy 20 Albici 374 Anastasius 576–577 Albinovanus Pedo 487–488 Anaxagoras 35–36, 539 Alciato, Andrea 379 and Thucydides 48 Alcibiades 92, 337–338, 341, 528, 532 Anaxibius 343–344 Alcimus 165 Anaximander of Miletus 28, 46, 547 ale¯theia see truth Anaximenes 23, 49, 128, 160–161, Alexander the Great 1, 6, 18, 25, 77, 211–220 passim, 554 151, 164, 168–169, 171, 195, ancestral constitution 408 221, 350, 472, 501, 530, 532, Andromache 422 537, 539, 548, 554–555 Andromachus 198 Achilles and 219 Androtion 181, 184–186 chronology of his historians 212 use of documents 63 death of, by poisoning (?) 212–220 annales Dioxippus and 427–433 contrasted with historia 41, 280 historians of 160, 210–220, 245 meaning of term 8, 263 influence on Trajan 447 Annales Maximi (Annals of the philosopher at arms 213 Pontifex Maximus) 8, 70, 261 pursuit of glory 447–453 Annales school 29 Romance 211 annalists, as distinguished from historians 8 speech of 120 Annianos 578 Alexander Polyhistor 222, 229, 232–233 Anonymus Valesianus 297 Alexander Severus 296, 462 Antandros 343 Alexandria 571, 578 Antandrus 165, 196 allegory 20 Antigonus Monophthalmos 214, 216–217 allusion 20 Antioch 195, 198, 350, 572 Aloros, king of Babylon 222–223 Antiochus I (Sote¯r) 222, 224, 229 Alyzeans 368–369 Antiochus III 246, 351, 353–354, 491 Amazons 496 Antiochus IV 246, 350 Ambraciots 508 Antiochus of Syracuse 80, 162, 165, Amenophis 226, 228 189–190, 193 Ammianus Marcellinus 1, 4, 39, 287, 292, method of 191–192 296–299, 303, 507, 512, 567–571, 580 sources of 192 admires Julian 302 Antipater 213, 215, 218 attitude towards Christians 301, 480 Antiphanes 557, 562–563 audience of 468–473 Antiphon 92, 340, 525 digressions in 468–473 antiquarianism 8, 17–18, 54 scale of his work 298 and history 515–527 sphragis of 474–480 antiquarius, antiquarii 516 Marincola: Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography bindex Final Proof page 679 14.8.2010 8:23pm Compositor Name: ARaju General Index 679 Antistius, C. 486 Ariarathes of Cappadocia 353 Antoninus Pius 290 Arion 43–44 Antoninus, Life of (Historia Augusta) 296 Ariovistus 108, 484 Antonius Diogenes 563 Aristaenus 249 Wonders beyond Thule 555 Aristarchus of Samos 548 Antonius, M. (Mark Antony) 171, 537, 539 Aristarchus of Samothrace 522 his camp at Actium 139 his commentary on Herodotus 20 Antony see Antonius, M. Aristeas 82 Apicius 251 Aristeas, Jewish historian 233, 235 apista 563 aristeia 318 apodexis 30, 32, 45 Aristides, Athenian politician apoikiai see colonies, accounts of (‘‘the Just’’) 64, 407 Apollo 517, 520, 532 Aristion 369 Apollodorus of Athens 522–3, 577 Aristobulus, historian of Alexander 211–220 Chronicle 22, 181 passim, 428, 430, 448–449 Apollonius of Rhodes 525 character of his history 218–219 Appian 276, 464, 570 date of 218 method of composition 454–455 on Alexander’s drinking 219 on Julius Caesar 112, 114 Aristonothos 67 on Mithridates 106 Aristophanes 22, 525 on Perseus 115–116 Aristotle 5, 17, 69, 192, 219, 253, 484, on Sulla 114 486, 510, 528–529, 538, 544–545, 559 treatment of Roman civil wars 454–460 antiquarian research of 520–521 Appuleius Saturninus, L. 251, 455–456, 458 corrected by Timaeus on Epizephyrian Aquileia 575 Locrians 51 Arabia 449, 543, 561 on epic 33 Arabs 572 on history and poetry 101, 505 Aratus of Sicyon 34, 246, 358, 530, 537 on plots 154 Memoirs 164 use of documents in his school 63 Arcadia 555 Aristoxenus 369, 529 ‘‘Archaeology,’’ of Thucydides see Armenia 447, 571 Thucydides, ‘‘Archaeology’’ Arnold, Matthew 323 archaia 34 arrangement, of history, according to archaic age, of Greece 15–16 Diodorus 177 archaiologia 49, 517 Arrian 81, 151, 427, 429 archaization, in epic 15–16 Anabasis 211–220 passim, 531 Archias, founder of Syracuse 192 Indica 214, 449 Archias, Macedonian 513 on Alexander’s pursuit of glory 447–453 Archidamian War 339 Tactics 448 Archidamus III 365 Arruntius, L. 278, 282 Areopagus, in Atthidographers 185 Artapanus 233, 236–237, 240 Ares 432 account of Yahweh 239 Argives 343 Artaxerxes I 204 Argolas 370 Artaxerxes II 203–204, 206, 537, 554, 560 Argonauts 488 Artaxerxes III 206 Argos 490, 517 Artemidorus 545, 547 see also Hellanicus of Lesbos Asclepiades of Myrtilea 20 argumentum 78 Asconius Pedianus, Q. 379, 525 Marincola: Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography bindex Final Proof page 680 14.8.2010 8:23pm Compositor Name: ARaju 680 General Index Asinius Pollio, C. 8, 24, 275, 278, Augustus, Roman emperor 104, 139, 245, 279, 282, 376, 513 257, 265, 275, 277, 283, 291, 294, 299, criticizes Caesar’s Commentarii 276 309, 412–413, 415, 441, 461, 466, 483, Asinius Pollio, C., son of previous 486 491, 524, 530, 533, 535, 537, 548, 575 Assyria and Assyrians 202, 554–555, 577 Livy and 284 history 203 Res Gestae of 136 Astaspes 429 Aurelius Symmachus, Q. 305 Astycrates 369 Aurelius Victor, Sex. 297, 299, 301, 305, Ateius Philologus, L. 22, 282 309, 477 Athanas 160 De Caesaribus 308 Athenaeus 206–207, 251, 525 Ausonius 567 Athenaio¯n Politeia, use of documents Caesares 307 in 62–63 autobiography 530 Athenian demagogues, attacked by Roman 266–274 Theopompus 175 autoethnography 497 Athenion 251 autopatheia see experience Athens and the Athenians 16, 329, 336, autopsy (eyewitness) 29, 39–55, 240–241, 338, 343, 346, 368, 356, 377, 511 279, 373, 401 origins treated by Atthidographers Autun 548 183–185 Avars 571, 580 athletes, needs of 431 axiologa 93 Atthidographers 180–188 contents and sources of 183 Babylon and the Babylonians 202, 221–225, political viewpoint of 187, 188 229, 240, 425, 447, 451, 494, 555 treatment of Athenian origins 183–185 Bactria 430 Atthis (pl. Atthides) 63, 80 Balbinus 295 development of 187–188 barbarian 357, 360–361, 439, 497 style and structure of 180–183 barbarian histories 494 use of myth in 84 basanizein see torture see also Atthidographers battle narratives, in historiogaphy 435–440 Attic War 195 battle speeches 436 Attica, heroes of 185 Bedriacum 439, 444 Atticism 23, 525 Belisarius 570 Atticus see Pomponius Atticus bella 8 Attila 295, 569 belua 445 Atys 256 Berga 562 audience Bergaean text 562 of Fabius Pictor 260 Berossus of Babylon 221–225, 234, 238, of Greek historians on Rome 244 240, 496 of historiography 23–25, 49 Bessus 453 of Sallust 386 bias of Strabo 545 in Ephorus 173 of Theodoret’s history 576 in Theopompus 175 Aufidius Bassus, continued by Pliny in Xenophon 96 the Elder 293 biography 18 Augeas, king of Elis 326 and history 102, 434, 528–540 Augustine, St. 266, 556, 578 literary 530 City of God 379, 575, 578 philosophical 529–530 Marincola: Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography bindex Final Proof page 681 14.8.2010 8:23pm Compositor Name: ARaju General Index 681 political 530–531 Capito of Lycia 568 Roman 266 Capitoline temple 394–396 Bithynia 462, 467 Capys the Trojan 68 Bocchoris, pharaoh 225 Caracalla 295, 462, 466 Boeotia 369 Carinus 296 Boeotians 318, 351, 368 Carmania 429 Boudicca 435, 439–440 Carrhae 513 Brasidas 340, 346 Carthage 195, 199, 248, 259, 352, 383, breviarium (pl. breviaria) 305–311, 551 385, 450, 490, 498, 512 Britons 434–440, 502 Carthaginian War against mercenaries 152 Brutus, younger 25, 530–531 Carthaginians 354, 361, 383, 451, epitomizes Polybius’ history 241 490–491, 495, 497, 532 Brutus, tyrannicide 254, 291, 465 relations with Sicily 196 Bucephalus 539 see also Punic Wars Bulgars 498, 579 Carus 296 Byzantium 366, 369 Cassander 215–216, 218, 561 Cassiodorus 305, 310, 568, 570, 579–580 Caesar, C. (grandson of Augustus) 414 Historia Tripartita 577 Caesar, Julius see Julius Caesar Institutiones 578 Cadmus of Miletus 78 Cassius, assassin of Caesar 25 Caecina Tuscus 442–443 Cassius Dio 46, 119, 293–296, 297, Caelius Rufus, M.
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