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Academy. See Plato Achaemenids Cambridge University Press 0521535700 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Index More information Index S Academy. See Plato Alexander Romance, 308–312 , 313. See also Achaemenids, 12, 16, 80, 97, 148 Alexander III Achaian League, 37, 52, 63, 64, 96, Alexandria, 39, 41–42, 55, 64–66, 82, 84, 118–119, 121, 125, 270, 271, 274, 320; 85, 88, 99, 101, 102, 108, 115, 161, Achaia, 122 180, 181, 187, 200, 210; amphora Acragas (Sicily), 281 handles at, 142, 143; baroque Acrocorinth, 37, 286 architecture in, 171; cameo Actium, battle of (31 BC), 141 invented at, 179; Library of, 1, 167, Aegae (Macedonia), 32, 45 188, 189, 190, 191, 209, 241–242; L. Aemilius Paullus, 118–119, 292 medicine in, 250–251, 252; Museum Agathe Tyche (‘Good Fortune’), 212–213 of, 41, 82, 167, 188, 190, 225, 241, Agathokles, son of Lysimachos, 34, 50 248; plan of, 163; Ptolemaieia festival Agathokles of Syracuse, 282, 286, 293 celebrated at, 65, 161, 214; religious Agesilaos, Spartan king, 266 heterogeneity, 208, 210, 217, 221; Ai Khanum (Afghanistan), 5, 17, 18, 47, Sarapeion at, 165, 170. See also 55, 91, 147 Sarapis Aineias Taktikos, 268, 281 Alexandris (formerly Syracusia), 277 Ainesidemos, Sceptic philosopher, 226, Alkmaion of Kroton, Pythagorean 237 philosopher, 249 Aitolian League, 21, 37, 63–64, 96; Amastris, 26 cavalry of, 272 Ammon Ra (Re), 46, 308, 309, 31 0 –311 Aitolians, 21, 29 Ammonios, son of Dionysios of Athens, alchemy, 247–248 140 Alexander III (the Great) 2, 9–23 Amphipolis, 38, 270 (Chapter 1 passim), 50, 287, 296, 303, Amyntas III of Macedonia, 19, 27, 50 311 , 315; in the Alexander Romance,31 0 , Anaxagoras, philosopher, 250 312; in ‘Alexander Mosaic’, 173; city Andreas of Karystos, 262 foundations, 16, e.g., Alexandria andron, 145–146, 152 Eschate, 17, 26; sarcophagus of, 41, Androtion, historian of Athens, 128 65. Scattered references passim. Antigonos I Monophthalmos (‘the Alexander IV (posthumous son of One-Eyed’), 11, 12, 14, 22, 29, 30, 50, Alexander the Great), 30, 50; 81, 261, 267; Antigonis, new tribe of executed by Kassandros, 31 –32 Athens, 32, 100; cult worship of, 20, Alexander Aitolus, 190–191 36–48, 214; ‘freedom of the Greeks’, Alexander of Epiros, 50 62, 213–214; Ipsos, battle of, 121; 361 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521535700 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Index More information Index Antigonos I Monophthalmos (cont.) Archelaos of Alexandria, 248 wars with Eumenes, 22, 31 , 101, 267, Archelaos, king of Macedonia, 189, 248 274, 278; wars with Ptolemy, 32–33, archers, Cretan, 280, 284 39, 269, 276 Archimedes of Syracuse, 245, 247, 258, Antigonos II Gonatas, 34, 35–38, 43, 49, 262, 276–277, 286–287 51, 66, 191, 277; Chremonidean War, Argeads (Macedonian royal house), 12, 66. See also Chremonidean War 16, 23, 29, 31 , 32, 33, 36, 96 Antigonos III Doson, 50 Argos, 186, 298, 299, 306 Antimachos of Kolophon, 190, 197 Ariarathes (of Cappadocia), 11 Antioch, 44, 45, 84, 161, 163, 217, 242 Aristarchos of Samothrace, 242 Antiochos I Soter, 35, 44, 45, 116, 214, Aristarchos of Samos, 245 215, 278 Aristippos, Cyrenaic philosopher, 226 Antiochos II (Theos), 87–88 Aristoboulos, Jewish philosopher, Antiochos III (‘the Great’), 44, 47, 81, 304–305 110, 149, 217, 274; battle of Magnesia, Aristotle, 223, 225, 227, 228, 233, 244, 279, 280; battle of Raphia, 272; 245, 249, 251, 255, 297, 303–304, 316; euergetism with Teos, 130 Lyceum, 220, 243–244; Nicomachean Antiochos IV Epiphanes, 46, 67, 143, Ethics, 224; Meteorologika, 247; Politics, 170, 216, 272 282–283, 296; Peripatetic school, 244, Antiochos of Askalon, Academic 304; views on rhetoric, 126–127 philosopher, 237–238 Aristoxenos of Tarenton, musicologist, Antipatros, regent of Macedonia, 12, 252 13–14, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31 , 36; Arkadia, 312; Gortys, 258; affiliation with democracy in Athens restricted by, 18, Rome, 300–302; Lykosoura, Temple 66; Lamian War (323–322 BC), 18, 21; of Despoina, 176; Arkadian League,63 marriage alliances, 49 Arkesilaos, Academic philosopher, Antipatros of Thessalonike, 258 236–237, 240 Antisthenes the Cynic, 232 Arrian of Nikomedia, 4 Apame, Iranian wife of Seleukos I Arsinoe II (sister-wife of Ptolemy II), 50, Nikator, 16, 211 97, 214 Apameia,178 4, 45 Arsinoite, 102–103 Apelles, painter, 21, 158 , 159 –160, 173, artillery, 276, 277. See also catapults 181 Asander, Macedonian satrap of Karia,269 Aphrodite, 214; as Aphrodite Hagne, Asculum, battle of (279 BC), 292 211–212; as Aphrodite Stratonikis, 102 Asklepiades of Prusias, 254 apodeictic (history supported by proof ), Asklepieion, 67, 210;onKos,217 122. See Polybios Asklepios, 211, 221 Apollodoros of Alexandria, 191, 248 asylia (‘inviolability’), 63, 217 Apollodoros, Athenian chronicler, 182 Atargatis, Syrian goddess, 211–212, 213 Apollodoros, Athenian potter, 140 Athens, 37, 52, 61, 64, 95, 122, 141, 188, Apollonios of Perge, 246 209, 225, 257, 258, 275, 316 , 321; Apollonios of Rhodes (Argonautika), 188, Athenians, 22, 59, 124; Attika,61, 259; 190, 192, 195, 196–203, 316 Attalis (new Athenian tribe), 100, 293; aposkeue (‘soldier’s baggage’), 101 Agora of, 55, 56, 57, 67 Aratos of Sikyon, 37, 118, 181 (South Square), 67, 139–140 Aratos of Soloi, 190, 191, 196, 204, 247, (Metroon); Attic dialect,186–187, 188; 304 ceramic material, 143, 144–145, 148, archaeology, urban, 322; survey, 323 154; choregic monument of Lysikrates, 362 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521535700 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Index More information Index 169; citizenship of, 61, 65, 98; cameo, 179–180 constitution of, 58, 66–68, 100, 119; Carthage, 119, 120; Carthaginians, 281 Dipylon Gate, 150; economy of, 77, cataphracts (kataphraktoi) heavy cavalry, 78, 81, 86, 87, 262; ephebeia, 60; 272–273, 280; Armenian, 272; Pontic, Menippos as benefactor, 131, 132, 133; 272; covered warships, 42, 277 military matters, 130, 141, 148 (sack by catapult, 259–260, 277, 280–281 Sulla in 86 BC), 160, 268, 270, 271 Cato the Censor (Elder), 124, 125, 301 (cavalry), 275, (navy), 283; New Style cavalry, 271–275. See also Companion coinage, 81; philosophical schools in, cavalry 126, 220, 226; religious practices of, Celts, 35, 37. See also Gauls 208, 210, 214, 215–216, 218, 288; Chabrias, condottiere of Athens, 266 Temple of Olympian Zeus, 67, 170, Chaironeia, battle of (338 BC), 21, 52, 216; Tower of the Winds, 57; women 160, 218–219, 220 and marriage, 52 Chalkis, 37, 56, 57 Attalos I of Pergamon, 47, 67, 214, 217, Chandragupta (of India), 11, 45, 304 292 Chares, condottiere of Athens, 266 Attalos II, 67, 169 Chares of Lindos, 261 Attalos III, 92, 131 Charias, military engineer, 282 autonomia, 62, 70 chariots, scythed, 279–280 Chiliarch (‘Prime Minister’ for Babylon, 18, 19, 29, 44, 84; astronomical Alexander the Great), 29 diaries of, 75 Chios, 64, 84, 258, 292 Bactria, 18, 47–48, 149 Chremonidean War, 52, 66. See also Baghdad, Arabic translations, 243 Antigonos Gonatas basileion (Hellenistic palace), 160–161 Chrysippos, Stoic philosopher, 232, 233, Belevi (near Ephesos), royal mausoleum 235 of, 169 Cicero, 237, 238 Beneventum, battle of (275 BC), 278 Claros, oracle of Apollo, 131 Berenikeus, deme of Ptolemais (Egypt), cleruchs (‘military settlers’), 39, 40, 101, 100 102, 269; kleros, 79–80, 82, 269 Berenike I, Ptolemaic queen, 50, 97, 162 Companion Cavalry, 271 Berenike II, Ptolemaic queen, 88, 100, Corinth, 2, 22, 57, 78, 83, 119, 141, 155 , 110, 214; Victory of, 193, 199; Lock of, 162, 262, 270 199. See also Kallimachos P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, 116, 119, Bessos, 12 121, 123, 124, 128, 132, 234 Bion of Borysthenes, 232 Crete, 90, 151 Bion of Soloi, 248 Ctesbios of Alexandria, 285 Biton, writer of military treatises, 285 Cynics, 232, 233, 238 Boiotian League, 63, 270, 271; Boiotia, Cyprus, 82, 101; battle of (306 BC), 269, 271 276, 284. See Salamis Bolos of Mendes, 248 Cyrenaics, 226; school of, 225–226. See Boulagoras of Samos, 65, 87–88, 91 also Hegesias bouleuterion (‘council-house’), 56 Cyrene, 83, 96, 106 Brahmans, 304 Cyrus the Great, 297, 311 Byzantion, 78, 81, 84, 110, 282 Damophon of Messene, 176 Cambyses, Persian king, 311 Deinokrates, architect of Alexandria, 158 , camels, 279 163 363 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521535700 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Index More information Index Delos, 4, 181, 212, 221; Athenian control Dionysios, son of Dionysios of Athens, of, 140, 145; cults at, 62, 76, 209, 210, 140 211, 213, 217–218, 219; foreigners at, Dionysios I of Syracuse, 290; use of 83, 168, 172, 211; houses at, 55 mercenaries, 266, 268, 269; military (‘peristyle’), 55, 166; trade at, 142, 143, innovations of, 260, 261, 275, 262; urban landscape of, 85, 145 280–281, 286 Delphi, 4, 53, 216, 217, 266–267; Dionysios II of Syracuse, 181, 265 Delphic Amphiktiony, 64, 81; trophy Dionysios of Alexandria, military pillar relief, 292 engineer, 260 Demades, Athenian orator, 20 Dionysios of Halikarnassos, 127–128, 300 Demeter, 213 Dionysos, 62, 162, 211, 214, 221 Demetria of Kos, 93–94, 107 Dipylon Gate. See Athens Demetrias (city founded by Demetrios Diyllos, Athenian historian, 118 Poliorketes), 37, 83, 100 Dor in Israel, 173, 178 Demetrios II of Macedonia, 66 Douris (Duris) of Samos, 57–58, 118, Demetrios of Phaleron, 22, 32, 66, 126, 128, 181 167, 220, 223, 241 Droysen, Johann Gustav, 1, 9–10, 14, 17, Demetrios I Poliorketes, 51, 55, 121,
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