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Athos, Mount,
31
,
105
,
176

Atlantis,
207

Atthis,
82

Atticus,
359
,
395
,
402
,
429
,
441

Augustalia,
438

Augustine,
171
,
402
,
420

Augustus,
2
,
435
,
456
–7,
461
–2,
464
–7, ch. 43
passim
; laws of, ch. 40
passim
,
489
–90;
see also
Octavian

aulos
,
42

auspices
,
291

autonomy (
autonomia
),
7
,
90
–91,
179
,
229
,
236
–7

Aventine hill,
340

Axiothea,
249
–50

Baalbek,
514

Babatha,
521

Babylon, Babylonians,
84
,
100
,
244
,
246
,
272
,
578

Bacchiads,
38
,
42

Bactria,
246
,
269
,
272

Bagoas,
239
,
242

Bar Kochva,
591

Barcids,
302

Barnabas,
527

Batavians,
534

Bath,
517

baths,
454
,
517

Beneventum,
298
,
309

Berenice,
541

Berytus (modern Beirut),
514

Bethlehem,
524

Bibulus,
375
–6,
377

Bithynia,
312
,
349
,
372
,
564

blood sports,
456
–62,
512
,
551

Boeotia,
44
,
55
,
183
,
184
,
190

Bononia (modern Bologna),
414
–15

Boudyas,
271

Brahmins,
230

Brauron,
188

Brescia,
560

Brindisi,
395
,
410

Britain,
507
–8,
515
,
516
–17,
518
; invaded by Caesar,
371
,
382
; invaded by Claudius,
494

brotherhood,
see
phratries

Brundisium,
424

Brunt, Peter,
484

Brutus, Decimus,
409
,
412
,
413

Brutus, Marcus,
388
,
402
–3,
405
,
407
–13,
420

Bucephalas,
236
,
399

Buddha, Buddhism,
271
–2

Burckhardt, Jacob,
47
,
213
,
218

Burrus,
496

Cadiz,
306
,
373
,
400

Cadmus (founder of Thebes),
181

Cadmus (tyrant of Cos),
117

Caelius,
357
,
388
–9,
390

Caenis,
535

Caere (modern Cerveteri),
275

Caesar, Gaius (son of Agrippa),
476

Caesar, Julius,
291
,
364
–8, chs. 34, 35 & 36
passim
,
409
,
411
–12; temple to,
433

Caesarea,
527

Caesarion,
397
,
422
,
426
,
429

Calanos,
270
–71

Caligula,
462
,
492
–3,
495
,
497

Callias,
155
,
172

Callimachus (poet),
212

Callimachus (sculptor),
193

Callisthenes,
210

Calpurnia (wife of Caesar),
396

Calpurnia (wife of Pliny),
569

Camarina,
115

Campania,
298
,
376

Campus Martius (Field of Mars),
293
,
347
,
409
,
428
,
454
,
562

Cannae,
304
,
307

Canopus,
593

Capitol hill,
275
,
295
,
340
,
397
,
402
; burning of,
536

Capitoline Games,
453

Cappadocia,
339

Capri,
492

Capua,
285
,
307
,
310
,
349
,
471

carceres
,
455

Carians,
60
,
103
,
108

Carneades,
329

Carthage, Carthaginians,
6
,
7
,
31
,
83
,
86
, chs. 10 & 11
passim
,
161
,
238
,
300
–301,
318
,
456
,
459
; and Rome,
282
,
298
–304; siege and destruction of,
292
,
320
,
330

Cassander,
244
,
250
,
252

Cassius,
409
,
411
,
413
,
420
,
543

Catiline,
364
,
367

Cato the Elder,
289
,
328
–30,
332
–3,
359

Cato the Younger,
356
,
375
–6,
380
,
382
,
384
; death of,
397

Catullus,
388
,
389

Caucasus,
211

Cecrops,
146

Celadus,
551

Cenis, Mont,
305

censor, censorship,
278
,
327
,
344
,
353
,
442

centuriate assembly,
279

Cephisodotus,
216

Ceres: temple of,
292

Chaeronea (battle),
225

Chalcidic peninsula,
31
,
176

Chandragupta,
246
,
271

Chanel, Coco,
8

chariot racing,
454
–6,
462

Charlemagne,
582

Charmian,
429

Charmides,
174

Chios,
18
,
237

Christianity, Christians,
459
,
512
, chs. 47 & 52
passim
,
579
,
591
,
596
–7; in Tacitus and Suetonius,
585

Cicero, Marcus Tullius
289
,
291
, ch. 33
passim
,
389
–90,
395
,
400
–405,
407
–14

Cicero, Quintus Tullius,
363
,
366

Cilicia,
367

Cimon,
130
–32,
165

Cincinnatus,
284

Cineas,
264
,
297
,
308

Cinna, Cornelius,
344
,
348

Circe,
16

Circus Maximus,
428
,
455
–7,
461
,
482

Civil Wars,
291
,
371
, ch. 35
passim
,
394
,
399
,
400
,
403
,
441
,
443
,
483

Civilis,
534

Claudius,
460
,
493
–6,
497
,
500
,
528

Clearchus (pupil of Aristotle),
264

Clearchus (Spartan),
163

Clearchus (tyrant at Heraclea),
210

Cleisthenes, ch. 8
passim
,
131
,
215

Cleitus,
239

Cleomenes,
316

Cleonae,
67

Cleopatra,
396
–7, ch. 38
passim
,
438
; statue of,
399

Cleopatra (wife of Philip of Macedon),
194
–5,
250

Cleopatra (sister of Alexander the Great),
249

Clodia,
362
,
389

Clodius,
362
,
366
–7,
377
–8,
380
,
381
,
383
,
385
,
389
; statue of,
401

Clytemnestra,
249

Cnidus,
177
,
217
,
485

coinage,
77
,
81
,
162
,
198

collegia
,
370
,
380
,
398
,
480
,
506

Colline gate,
344

Colophon,
81

Colosseum,
457
,
540

comedy,
see
drama

Commodus,
462

Companion: Cavalry,
199
,
242
; Foot,
199
,
279
; nobles,
200
,
235
,
238

Comum (modern Como),
560
,
568

Conimbriga,
515

consul, consulship,
275

consulta
,
280

Copais, Lake,
514

Corcyra,
160

Corinth,
35
,
38
,
41
,
42
; ally of Sparta,
130
,
160
; destruction of (146
BC
),
320
; enemy of Sparta,
178
; site of first revolution,
58
; tyranny in,
63
,
67
,
68
,
74
; visited by St Paul,
527
–8

Cornelia (wife of Pompey),
354

Cornelius Tages,
556

Corsica,
117

Cos,
85
,
117

Cotys,
210

council of the plebs,
279

Crassus, M. Licinius (elder)
353
,
365
–7, chs. 34 & 35
passim

Crassus, M. Licinius (younger),
434
,
435

Craterus,
243
,
249

Cratinus,
148
–9

Critias,
174

Croesus,
78
,
83

Croton,
117

crucifixion,
456
,
525
,
526

Ctesiphon,
578
–9

Cumae,
30
,
31

Curio,
385

Curius Dentatus,
284
,
329

Cybele,
309

Cyclops,
16

Cynnane (daughter of Philip of Macedon),
194

Cynosarges,
187

Cynoscephalae,
317

Cyprus,
29
,
30
,
103
,
128
,
177
,
244
,
249
–50,
380
,
527
,
579

Cyrene,
32
,
35
,
37
,
89
,
90
,
117
,
157
,
579

Cyrus (sixth-century Persian king),
84
,
88
,
234
; death of,
100
; description of an
agora
,
101

Cyrus (fifth-century Persian prince),
178

Cythera,
105

Dacia,
404
,
456
,
575
–9

Damon,
153

Danube (river),
395
,
467
,
575
,
577

Darius,
101
–2,
103
,
234

decarchies,
160
,
178

Decebalus,
575
–6

Decius Mus,
292

deditio
,
285

Dellius,
429

Delos,
50
,
80

Delphi: oracle of Apollo,
13
,
33
,
56
,
59
,
65
,
72
,
91
,
107
,
130
,
169
,
182
,
196
,
281
; Sacred War,
56
,
67
; site of athletic games,
67
,
108
,
131
; site of bronze Charioteer,
129
; treasuries at,
16