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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-52929-7 - The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece Edited by H. A. Shapiro Index More information Index S Abdera, 43 agora, 46–48, 147, 204, 212, 213 Abydos, 208 Agylla/Caere, 226 Achaeans/Achaians, 48, 50, 51, 52, 57, Aiakos, 234 74, 112, 113, 118, 120, 123, 202, 207 Aigai, 51 Achaia, 49, 51, 56, 57 Aigeira, 51 Achilles, 103, 111, 112, 113, 114, 118, 119, Aigialeis, 56 120, 121, 122, 126, 268–269, 278 Aigila, 79 Acropolis. See Athens Aigimios. See Dorians Adrastus, 153 Aigina, 77 Aeaces I, tyrant of Samos, 34 Aineias Taktikos, 70 Aeaces II, son of Syloson, 34 Aischines, 50 Aeacids, 32, 34 Aisymnetes, 34 Aeantides, son of Hippocles, 30 Aitnissai. See Aeschylus Aelian, 166 Aitolia, 49, 50, 52 Aeneas, 66 Aitolians, 49, 50, 51 Aeolians, 23 Ajax, 120, 123, 268–269, 278 Aeolic dialect, 113 Akarnania, 49, 50 Aeolus, 216 Akragas, 207, 218, 220 Aeschines/Aiskhines, tyrant of Sicyon, Akrai, 207, 216 24, 243, 244 Al Mina, 203 Aeschylus, 242 Alcaeus/Alkaios of Mytilene, 16–17, 32, Aitnissai, 220 47, 67, 141, 142, 143, 147, 149–150 , Eumenides, 132 152 , 158 , 159 , 160, 162 Aethiopis. See Epic Cycle Alcidamas, poet. See Aetnans, 237 Alcinous, 113, 127 Africa, 207, 210, 211 Alcman of Sparta, 6, 94–95, 147 agalmata, 241 Alcmeonids/Alkmaionids, 29, 30, 31 , 33, Agamemnon, 48, 114, 119, 122–123, 247–251 125–126, 242 Alcock, Susan E., 77 Agariste, daughter of Cleisthenes, 22 Alexander the Great, 3, 6, 222 Agasicles of Halicarnassus, 232, 242, 248 Alexandros. See Paris Agasicles, tyrant of Halicarnassus, 232 Alkmaion, 233 agathoi, 48 Alkmaionides, 233–235, 237, 239, 247 agelai, 90–92, 97 Amaltheia, 236 agoge, 90 Amasis, pharaoh, 247 agonal warfare, 76–77 Ampheia, 77, 78 287 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-52929-7 - The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece Edited by H. A. Shapiro Index More information Index Amphictyonic League, 52, 226, 247 Aratus, 236 Amphidromia, 89 Arcadia/Arkadia, 51, 68, 226 Amphinomus, 97 Arcadians/Arkadians, 50 Amyclae/Amyklai, 79, 207 Archaic smile, 266 Anacreon of Teos, 6, 141, 143, 147, 148, archaios, 2 150 , 152 Archedice, daughter of Hippias, 30, Anactoria, 162, 164, 165 36 Anactorium, 20 Archelaoi, 56 anakalypteria, 100 Archias of Corinth, 206 Analysts, 115 Archibald, Zosia, 50 Anavyssos, 276 Archilochus/Archilochos of Paros, 77, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, 182 142, 143–144, 152 , 154 , 155 , 175, Anaximander of Miletus, 177, 178–182 183, 209. See Boundless (apeiron), 178–180 archon. See Athens cosmology, 178–182 Areopagus. See Athens elements, 179, 180, 181 Ares, 99, 276 political and social vocabulary, 180–182 Arete, 127 Anaximines of Miletus, 180, 185 Arethusa, 68 Anderson, John Kinloch, 68 Argives, 29, 68, 77 Andokides, 279, 280 Dorian ancestry, 58 Andokides painter, 279–280 Argo, 245, 246 Andokides Painter, 280 Argonauts, 36, 246 Andreas, father of Orthagoras, 21 Argos, 43, 44, 47, 51, 54, 68, 226, Andrewes, Antony, 64 232 Andros, 42, 240 Argolid, 52, 56 Ano Mazaraki-Rakita, 51 extraurban sanctuary of Hera, 44 Antenor of Athens, 248, 273 Aries,` Philippe, 101 Antilochus, son of Nestor, 120 Arion, poet, 36 Antiphemus, founder of Gela, 213 Aristion of Paros, 265, 267, 268, Antonaccio, Carla, 7 269 aoidoi, 102 Aristocrates, Arkadian general, 79 Apatouria, 89. See Athens Aristodikos, 276 Aphrodite, 99, 134, 150 , 160–161, 164, Aristogeiton, 30 215 Aristomenes, 78, 79 apoikia. See colonization Aristonymus of Sicyon, 21 Apollo, 87, 88, 120, 226, 237, 238, 244, Aristophanes, 102 246, 250, 274 Lysistrata, 95 Archegetes, 204 Aristotle, 16, 20, 22, 31 , 33, 34, 50, 80, Daphnephoros, 44 149, 152 , 155 , 169, 172–173, 179, Delian, 35, 211 181, 185, 187, 244 Delphic, 204, 211 kingship, definition of, 16 Delphinios, 49 Metaphysics, 172 Phoebus, 233, 239 Physics, 172 Ptoian, 233, 274 polis, definition of, 41, 45 Pythian, 35, 52, 241, 244, 249 Politics, 21, 30, 50, 64 Triopian, 231, 232 tyranny, definition of, 16 Apollonia, 177 Armstrong, Louis, 234 Apothetae. See Arrhephoroi, 272 288 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-52929-7 - The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece Edited by H. A. Shapiro Index More information Index Artemis, 99, 106, 183, 271, 272 Temple of Olympian Zeus, 30 Brauronia, 95 tribes, 26 Orthia, 87 Atthis, 163, 164 Asine, 50 Atwood, Margaret Assyrians, 208 Penelopiad, 111 Asteria, Titan, 132 Augustus, 3, 71, 111 asty, 41, 212 aulos, 96, 146 Astylos of Croton, 237 axones. See Solon Athena, 35, 114, 132, 161, 219, 235, 249, 272, 273 Bacchiads/Bakchiadai, 18, 20, 33, 45, 49, Pallas, 233 210 Athenaion Politeia. See pseudo-Aristotle: Bacchylides of Ceos, 141, 147, 156 , 219, Constitution of Athens 220, 238 Athenians, 20, 27, 28, 50, 77, 151 , Bakker, Egbert, 121–122 222, 226, 228, 234, 235, 249, Barnes, Jonathan, 177 250 Basel, 69 Athens, 5, 6, 13, 26, 27, 28, 34, 36, 41, basileus, 15 , 16 42, 43, 48, 50, 52, 53, 59, 71, 77, Herodotus’ definition of, 15 103, 104, 141, 159 , 207, 208, 210, Hesiodic usage, 46 212, 226, 227, 233, 234, 235, 246, Homeric usage, 48 249, 250, 265, 268 Mycenaean usage, 59 Acropolis, 28, 30, 50, 226, 235, 247, Thucydides’ definition of, 15 275, 277 Basilidai, 45 agora, 47 Battus, king of Cyrene, 14, 204 Apatouria, 54, 89 Bellerophon, 247 Archaic, 6 Berezan, 208 archon, 17, 27, 28, 49 Berlin aryballos, 64, 73 Areopagus Council, 26, 27 Bias of Priene, 14, 183 army, 80 Bion, son of Diodoros of Miletus, 238 Assembly, 26, 27 birth rites, 87–89 Attica/Attika, 25, 28, 42, 43, 48, 57, Black Sea, 214 71, 95, 99, 265, 270, 276 Boeotia/Boiotia, 59, 72, 229, 270, 274 Ceramicus/Kerameikos, 104, 228 Boeotians/Boiotians, 50 Council of, 26 Bomarzo, 69 democracy, 3, 45, 46, 152 , 234, Boreas, 153 248–249, 252 Bosporus, 222 Dipylon, 278 Boundless. See Anaximander of Miletus Enneakrouros, 30, 34 Bourdieu, Pierre, 129 fleet, 77 Brauron, 95–96 Genesia, 105 Brauronia, 95–96 hegemony, fifth century, 222 Briseis, 123 laws of Solon, 27 Bruttians, 222 Panathenaia, 113, 117, 233 Burnet, John, 169–170 Stoa Poikile, 73 Byzantium, 208 Temple of Athena on the Acropolis, 30, 248, 272 Calame, Claude, 93 Temple of Dionysos on the slope of Callinus, poet, 101 the Acropolis, 30 Calydonian boar hunt, 245 289 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-52929-7 - The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece Edited by H. A. Shapiro Index More information Index Calypso, 126 Cleomenes, king of Sparta, 24, 31 Camarina, 207 Cleopatra, 3 Camerius, 232 Cnidus, 231, 232, 241, 242 Carthage, 221, 222 Temple of Triopian Apollo, 231, 232, Carthaginians, 208, 220, 221, 238 241, 248 caryatides, 242, 248 coinage, 26, 172, 187–189 Carystus, 240 colonization Castalia, 239 apoikia (colony), 203–206 Catalog of Women. See Hesiod Apollo, 204, 211, 218, 227 Catane, 206 archaeology, 209–210 Ceos, 240 archegetes, 204 Certamen,orContest of Homer and Hesiod, emporia, 203, 206 137 Hellenization, 217 Chafe, Wallace, 122 hybridity, 216, 217, 218 Chalcedon, 208 ktisis/ktistor, 114, 204, 206, 211 Chalcidians/Chalkidians, 50, 206 metropolis (mother city), 204, 205, 207, Chalcidice, 207 208, 212, 218, 219, 222 Chalcis/Chalkis, 50, 77, 210, 214 migration, 202, 203 Chaos, 179 native populations, 213–218 Charon the carpenter, 143, 152 oikistes/oikister, 20, 204, 206, 210, Chersicrates, 206 211–212, 231 Chersonesus/Chersonesos, 77, 213, organization of space/urban planning, 236 211–213 Chigi olpe, 64, 69, 73, 75 Roman, 203–204 Childe, Gordon, 42 sanctuaries, 218–220 Chilon of Sparta, 14 sources, 208–213 Chimaera, 247 tyrants, 221 Chios, 46 Colophon/Kolophon, 57, 189, chiton, 96, 271, 272 207 Choireatai, 56 Colophonians/Kolophonians, 151 chora, 41 comedy, 8 Chryseis, 123 Constantine, 239 Chryses, 123 Constitution of Athens. See pseudo- Cinyras, 153 Aristotle: Constitution of Athens Circe, 113, 127–128 Contest of Homer and Hesiod. See Certamen Cirrha, 250 Copernicus, 181 city-state. See polis Corcyra/Kerkyra, 20, 203 Clazomenae, 189 Corinth, 212 Cleis, daughter of Sappho, 158 Corinth/Korinth, 6, 18, 19, 20, 33, 43, Cleisthenes/Kleisthenes, of Athens, 26, 44, 59, 203, 205, 212, 226 56, 248 Corinthians/Korinthian, 20, 79, 202, Cleisthenes/Kleisthenes, tyrant of 203, 206, 210, 243 Sicyon, 22–24, 35, 243, 244 Cos/Kos, 46, 54, 232 daughter’s wedding, 22, 35 Cretans/Kretans, 14, 207 foundation of games, 22, 35, 244 Crete/Krete, 77, 97, 131, 210 tribal reform, 23, 27, 36, 56 initiation rites for boys, 90–92, 95, 96, wealth of, 22 100 Cleobulus of Lindos, 14 Crimea, 213 290 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-52929-7 - The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece Edited by H. A. Shapiro Index More information Index Crisa, 22, 227 inscriptions, 50, 225, 233, 234, 235, Critias, Athenian sophist, 144 236, 237, 238, 239, 241, 242, 243 Croesus, king of Lydia, 174 tripods, 219, 227, 229, 232, 238, 239 Cronus, 131, 132, 136 Deinodikes, 271 Croton, 175, 177, 189, 207, 221, 222, Deinomenes, 236, 238, 271 237 Deinomenids, 219, 220, 221, 237–239, Crotonates, 237 243, 246, 248 Cumae/Kyme, 214, 236, 238 dekate, 89 cunning intelligence. See metis Delian League, 41, 53, 240 Cyclades, 52, 211, 270, 274 Delos, 30, 87, 225, 226, 240, 271, 274 Cyclopes, 133, 153 Temple of Apollo, 240 Cyclops, 111–112, 126, 209 Delphi, 5, 21, 35, 225, 226, 227, 229, Cycnus, 130 230, 231, 232–233, 235, 237, 238, Cylon/Kylon of Athens, 28, 36, 231, 239, 240, 243–244, 246, 247–248, 248 249, 250, 251–252, 274 Cyprus,
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