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General Index GENERAL INDEX Abydos 564, 587 Apries 332, 423- 4, 426, 525 Achaemenid empire: see Persia Arabia, Arabians 461, 464- 5, 468- 9, Adda-guppi 486 474 Adyrmachidae 461 Arcadia, Arcadians 326, 338, 381 Aegina 340, 497, 503, 517, 527- 8, Arcesilaus of Cyrene 507- 8, 516- 17 547 Archias of Pitana 374, 376- 7, 500, Aeschylus 173, 194, 510, 571 - 2 527 Aethiopia 403- 5 Archiloch us 510 aetiological myths 560 archives, royal Babylonian 483; royal Agariste 504 Persian 576; temple 483- 4 Agathyrsi 461 Ardericca 4 79 agriculture 462, 472 Ares 197, 450 aidifs 208 arete 203- 4 aitie 4, 7, 13, 17- 19, 85- 6 Argippaei 462- 5, 473 Ajax 188 Argonauts 497 Alcaeus 510, 513 Argos 338, 341- 2, 345, 502, 505, Alcm(a)eonids 40- 2, 211, 504, 534-6, 546-7 543, 547, 573- 4 Arimaspians 445, 465, 472- 3 Aleuadae 559 Arion 512 Alexander I 382- 3 Aristagoras 157, 385, 508, 529- 34, Alexandropol 452 557- 8 alterity: see 'Other' Aristeas 361 , 444- 5, 466, 472- 3 Aly, W. 247 Aristeides 519, 574 Alyattes 502, 511 Aristodemus 562 Amasis 332, 423- 4, 426, 434, 503, Aristodicus of Cyme 381 5 17 Aristogeiton 326, 535 Amazons 453 Aristophanes 510, 514 Amel-Marduk 486 Aristotle 443, 469, 474, 514- 15 Amestris 580, 585 arkhe 328 n. 14, 34 1; see also Ammon 358 imperialism Amompharetus 562, 565 Armenia 477 Anacharsis 279, 376, 444, 455 Arrian 474 analogy 156, 280 Artabanus 175, 182, 559, 569- 70, anaphora 60, 66 584, 587 Anaxandridas 5 15 Artaphernes 539, 557- 8 Anaximander 156- 68, 419 Artaxerxes I 34 1, 490, 495 andreia 368; see also bravery Artaxerxes II 493, 495 Androphagi 367, 462, 465 Artayctes 347-8, 553, 559, 567 Annequin, J. 234 Artaynte 580, 585- 7 Anthylla 328 Artemis 188, 189, 197 Antidorus of Lesbos 562 Artemisia 240- 1, 267, 568- 70, 584 ants, gold-digging 465 , 470, 472, 474 Artemisium 190- 2, 359- 60, 561 , 565 Apadana 580 Artoxerxes: see Artaxerxes I Aphrodite 442, 449- 50 Arzhan 451 apodexis 4, 8-12, 20- 26, 28- 32, 269 Ascalon 331 Apollo 187- 8, 191 , 195, 450; see also Ashdod 323 Delphi Asia 415, 553- 7, 561 630 GENERAL INDEX Assyria 327 , 330- 2, 335- 6, 475, Bel'sk 454 485- 96, 511 Berezan 454 Astyages 128- 9 bias 522; see also Herodotus, bias in Asychis 422- 3 Bias of Priene 513, 556 Atarantes 468 Blok, A. 453 atasthalia 188, 193- 94 Boeotia 511, 548 Athena 188, 189 Boer, W. den 388, 392 Athens, Athenian(s) 381 , 385 , 500, Bornitz, H.-F. 251 502- 3, 513, 51 7- 19, 533- 45; Borst, A. 412 empire 166, 169- 70, 174, 178; Borysthenes, Borysthenites 443, 465 ideology 152- 3, 561 , 572; Bosporus 511 imperialism 549, 553, 567; power boundaries 172- 3, 330, 465, 554, 556 of 337- 8, 340; role of, in Persian bravery 323, 368, 561- 2, 564, 566 wars 42- 3, 341- 2, 347- 8, 382- 3, bribery 569 568, 574- 5 Brillante, C. 114 Atlantes 464, 470 Budini 465 Atossa 579- 80, 586 burial mounds 451 - 4 atrekeos 360- 2 Burkert, W. 391 , 410 Atthidographers 514 Byzantium 443 Augila 466 austerity: see luxury Calame, C. 113 authority 279, 351- 2, 356 calendar 387, 401 ; see also autochthony 326 chronology Autonoos 188, 189 Callatians 366, 461 autopsy 13- 15, 278, 355- 6, 419, Calliades, archonship of 334, 501 424, 442- 4 Callicrates 562 Callippidae 440, 446 Babylonia, Babylonian(s) 197, 325 , Cambyses 130- 1, 193, 333- 5, 437, , 330- 1, 333, 475- 96, 511; 466- 7, 487- 8, 503, 524 astronomical texts 484; chronicles Candaules 55- 8, 192, 368 482, 485; customs 494- 5; cannibalism 461 - 4 government 495; palaces 483, Carbonell, C.-0. 252- 3 491- 2, 496; population 494- 5; Caria, Carians 325, 499 revolt 5 79; royal titles 489- 90, Cassiterides 4 71 579, 581; texts 484, 488- 9 catalogue of ships I 03 Bacchiads 518, 544 cavalry 565, 577 Bacis 358 Chalcis 509, 511 Badian, E. 380, 382, 392 Chaldaeans 475, 478- 80, 489 Bakhtin 276 Chantraine, P. 362 Bakker, E. J 55 characterisation 423- 4, 5 79- 90 barbarians 105, 364- 7; see also 'Other' Cheops 424, 429, 511 Barca 345 Chephren 424 Bardiya 488 Chertomlyk 452- 3 barrows: see burial mounds Chilon 515 battle narratives 564- 5 Chios 502, 531 Battles: of Champions 502, 515; chronology 329- 34, 387- 8, 390- 2, of Hysiae 508; of Sybota 558; 407, 421 - 2, 439, 497, 499- 504; see of the Fetters 515 also spatium historicum, synchronism Battus, Battiads 383, 506- 7 'chunking', in sentence structure Bauman, R. 277- 8 54- 5, 59- 64, 67 , 70; literary use beauty 563, 566 of 62- 3, 77 bees 471 Cimmerians 323, 331, 440 Behistun 488, 493 Cimon 211 Bel 475, 478, 489, 491 cinnamon 465, 469 .
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