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9780521812085 Index.Pdf Cambridge University Press 0521812089 - Polybius, Rome and the Hellenistic World: Essays and Reflections Frank W. Walbank Index More information Indexes I GENERAL Dionysus and Heracles, ; war against Persiaplannedby Philip II, Abydus, Philip V takes, – Alexander, governor of Corinth, declares Acarnania, Philip V campaigns in, independence, Achaea, Achaean League: possible Alexandria, temple of Demeter and Kore and development out of village communities, Thesmophorion at, – ; Adonis festival, ; rise of poleis in, ; cities not attested ; nature of population, –; Polybius’ archaeologically before , ; Spartans picture impressionistic, introduce oligarchies, ; garrisons and Ambracia, Philip V campaigns in, tyrants under Antigonus II, ; coinage, Ambracus, ; Calydon belongs to, ; revival in Ameinias, Phocian pirate, third century, –, , ; appeals to Andriscus, Macedonian pretender, ; Doson, ; Achaeans detained at support for him a sign of infatuation, Rome, ; Achaean assemblies, –; Andros, battle of, , ; date of, possesses primary assembly down to , Antander, historian, ; dominated byelite, ´ ; Achaean Antigonids, and sea-power, – ; allegedly War, – aimed at universal dominion, , –; Achaeus, provides example to Polybius’ failed to maintain naval preponderance, readers, ; claimed connection with Argeads, Actium, battle of, Acusilaus of Argos, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, faces Ptolemy, Admetus, Macedonian, honoured at Delos, Cassander and Lysimachus, ; death at Ipsus, Aegeira, Antigonus II Gonatas, need for fleet, ; Aemilius, L., Paullus, games at Amphipolis, defeats Gauls, ; treaty with Antiochus I, , ; uses pirates against Athens, Aemilius Sura, ; statues erected at Delos, ; plants Aenus, Ptolemaic, tyrants in Greece, ; alleged gift from Aetolia, Aetolian League, expansion of, ; Ptolemy II, alliance with Rome (), Antigonus III Doson, Achaean approach to, Agathocles of Alexandria, Polybius on his –; treats Sparta generously, ; downfall, ravages Cytinium, , ; Polybius Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse, , favourable towards, –, ; garrisons Agelaus of Naupactus, Aetolian, speech, Achaean cities, ; hegemon of Achaean Agrigentum, League, ; treaties with Eleutherna and Alcaeus of Messene, epigram on Philip V, Hierapytna, ; Carian expedition, Alcimus, historian, –, , Alexander the Great, processions held by, ; Antiochus I, treaty with Antigonus II, , treatment of Thebes (), , ;army acted as the state under, ; paraded with Antiochus III, pact with Philip V, , , , troops, , ; historians of stress , © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521812089 - Polybius, Rome and the Hellenistic World: Essays and Reflections Frank W. Walbank Index More information Indexes Antiochus IV,ultimatum from Popillius balance of power, never accepted in antiquity, Laenas, , ; procession at Daphne, , –; dated , ; military element in, Black Sea, current from through Bosphorus, ; theoroi in, ; symbolism in, ; ; silting up, Polybius’ hostile picture of, Boeotia, Boeotians, conditions after Leuctra, Antiochus, historian, , , ; condemned by Polybius for Apamea, Treaty of (), ; territorial and supporting Perseus, naval clauses of, Bomilcar, Punic admiral, Apollo Hyacinthos, bearing of peplos to, Bosphorus, current through, Apollonidas of Sicyon, speech of, Brachylles, boeotarch, Aratus of Sicyon, ; Memoirs used by Polybius, Brennus, Galatian invasion, with n.; attaches Sicyon to Achaean Byzantium, League, ; frees Corinth, , ; liberates Achaea from Macedon, ; Calchedon, brings back Macedonians into the Callicrates, Achaean statesman, ; urges Peloponnese, , ; allegedly abuses Romans to put pressure on Achaea, Antigonus III, ; influence on Philip V, Callimachus, medical writer, Callixeinus, Arcadia, importance of music in, Calydon, belongs to Achaea, Archimedes, devices at Syracuse, Calymna, treaty of homopoliteia with Cos, Archytas of Tarentum, Capua, features of anacyclosis in, , arctic circle, meaning to the Greeks, Caria, expedition of Antigonus III against, ; Areius Didymus, Macedonian province in, Argeads, connection with claimed by Seleucids Carthage, treaties with Rome, , ;war and Ptolemies, against mercenaries, ; deliberation in Argonauts, in Italy and Elba, the hands of the masses, Argos, joins Achaean League, ; strong links Cary, Max, on Greek unity, with Macedonia, , , Casaubon, I., feeble defence of Polybius as a Aristaenus, Achaean statesman, speech of religious man, – (in Livy), ; effects Achaean switch to Caulonia, foundation, Rome, ; scores over his colleagues, Cephalus, Epirote, – Cephisodorus. Athenian statesman, Aristobulus, sitones of Demetrius II, honoured Cercidas, elder, attacked by Demosthenes and at Delos, Theopompus, Aristomachus of Argos, Cercidas, cynic, Aristonicus, boxer, Chalcis, lost to Antigonus II, Aristonicus, eunuch, , n. Chaonnophris, , , Aristotle, distinguishes forms of ethnos, Chersonese, Philip V takes towns in, ; wrote constitution of Pellene, ; Chiomara, judges tragedy more philosophical than Chios, battle of, – history, ; approves killing of a tyrant, Chlaeneas, Aetolian speaker, , , ; his arguments, Athanis, historian, Chremonidean War, , ; date of end, ; Athena Homaria, ; cult in private context, Ptolemaic reply to Macedonian decision ; dedication to, to build fleet, , , , Athens, Polybius’ hostility towards; surrenders chrysaspides, in procession of Antiochus IV, to Gonatas, n. Atilius, M., Regulus (cos. , ) defeated by Chryseis, gift of corn to Rhodes, Xanthippus (), ; provides moral Chrysogonus, example, Cius, Attalus I, Polybius praises his megaloyuc©a, Cleitomachus, boxer, Cleomenes I, claims to be an Achaean, Aymard, Andr´e,views on location of Achaean Cleomenes III, social and economic refoms, Homarion, ; on the Achaean ; threatens Achaea, ; turns from king assemblies, to tyrant, © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521812089 - Polybius, Rome and the Hellenistic World: Essays and Reflections Frank W. Walbank Index More information Indexes climate, alleged effect on national character, Polybius, –; rooted in emotion, ; –, mature picture in Enciclopedia Italiana, ; Cnossus, analyses weaknesses in Polybius’ Histories, Comanus, epistrategos of the Egyptian chora, –; changes tone in vol. of Storia dei Corinth, freed by Aratus, ; lost by Antigonus Romani, ; deplores Roman eastern II to Alexander, ; meeting held in , policy, –; concept of historical justification, ; ironical on Polybius’ Cornelius, P. Scipio Aemilianus (cos.), defence of Philopoemen, –; friendship with Polybius, , , ; condemns Polybius’ ‘surrender to Rome’, eastern embassy of, ; prefers hunting to ; personal history compared with that activity in forum, ; programme to of Polybius, emphasise his good qualities, ; speech Dicaearchus of Messana, map of the world, ; against C. Gracchus, wrote constitution of Pellene, ; his Cornelius, P. Scipio Africanus (cos.), takes Tripoliticus New Carthage, , ; simile comparing Dicaearchus, Aetolian pirate, , masses to the sea attributed to, ; Dionysius I, of Syracuse, , example of virtue to follow, –; Don, R., Polybius’ location of, contested by pursued fame in an ‘aristocratic state’, Strabo, Cos, battle of, , , ;dateof,, ; Dryden, John, his Character of Polybius treaty of homopoliteia with Calymna, introducing Sheeres’ translation, ; Crates of Mallos, errors in, –; draws on Casaubon, Crete, Cretans, Demetrius II’s treaty with, ; –; but rejects Casaubon’s view of war with Rhodes, Polybius as a religious man, –; Croton, foundation, believes in astrology, ; compares Cynaetha, faction due to neglect of music, Polybius and Tacitus, –; his Cleomenes, Cytinium, Doris, ravaged by Antigonus III, –; nets £ from his Miscellany, appeals to Xanthus, , Duris of Samos, uses geographical digressions to create startling effects, ; Tyche in, ; Damanhour, Hellenistic inscription found at, synchronisms in, ; criticises Ephorus and Theopompus for lack of mimesis, Deimachus, sent by Seleucids to India, Dyme, Macedonian links, , Deinon, Rhodian, Delos, Antigonid dedications at, Egypt, Egyptians, treatment in Polybius, Demeter, gift of corn to Sicilians, –; alleged cruelty, ; increased Demetrius I Poliorcetes, victory at Salamis influence of native Egyptians, , ; (), ; elaborate costumes of, native risings, ; surrender of rebels in Demetrius I Soter (Seleucid), possible source delta, –; revised chronology of this, for Polybius, – Demetrius II of Macedonia, finances tyrants, Eleutherna, treaty with Antigonus III, ; treaty with Gortyn and Crete, Epaminondas, founder of Megalopolis and Demetrius, son of Philip V, Theban hegemony, Demetrius of Athens, envoy of Ptolemy V, Ephorus, read by Polybius, ; universal Demetrius of Phalerum, ‘prophetic’ remarks history in, ; Books IV and V devoted to on Tyche (Fortune), , , , ; geography, ; return of Heracleidae as procession of, n. epochal date, , – Demetrius of Pharos, ; influence on Philip Epichares, Athenian strategos honoured, V, , , Epidaurus, Asclepieium at, democracy, in sense of ‘self-governing’, ;but Eratosthenes, puts Rome, Messina and elsewhere has its full sense, , ; Carthage on the same meridian, ; compatible with royal domination, geographical synthesis of, ;onthe Democritus, habitability of the equatorial zone. ; Demosthenes, his anti-Macedonian policy calculated circumference of earth, ; condemned by Polybius, believed poetry was to entertain, De Sanctis, Gaetano, Italian historian,
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