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Serapis,
258
,
535

Sergius Orata,
454

Sertorius,
348
,
349
,
354

Servius Tullius,
119

Seven Wise Men,
264

Shaka Zulu,
60

Shakespeare,
409
,
422

Sibylline oracles,
293
,
294
,
405
,
441

sicarii
,
521

Sicels,
114
,
129

Sicinnus,
106

Sicyon,
67
,
176
,
316

Sidon,
31
,
236

silphion,
35

silver mines,
126
,
222
–3

Simonides,
109

Sinan,
577

Sirens,
16

Siwah,
235

slavery: at Athens,
70
,
94
,
97
,
143
,
222
; Aristotle on,
208
; enslavement in war,
58
,
185
,
234
; at Rome,
274
,
285
,
320
,
446
,
479
,
568
–9; Christian views on,
530
,
568
; philosophical views on,
208
,
213
; slave-revolts,
338
–9,
349

Smyrna,
18
,
28

snake–handling,
54
,
195

Social War,
339
,
343
,
348
,
384

Socrates, chs. 15 & 19
passim;
in Aristophanes’
Clouds
,
149
,
172

Sogdia,
236

Solon,
64
–6,
69
,
91
,
93
,
120
,
215

Sophocles (dramatist),
17
,
137
,
153
,
164

Sophocles (fourth-century),
212

Sostratos,
258

Spain,
83
,
300
,
302
–3,
305
,
308
,
310
–11,
336
,
348
,
373
,
400
,
457
,
467
,
511
–12,
514
,
519
–20

Sparta,
37
, chs. 6, 11, 14 & 16
passim
,
154
–5,
197
–8,
224
,
316
; in Herodotus,
140
; selection of magistrates,
95
; use of hoplites,
71
,
74
,
104
,
105
,
162

Spartacus,
349
,
353

Spartiates, ch. 6
passim
,
95
,
105
,
162
,
326
,
444

Speusippus,
210

Stageira,
206
,
211

Statius,
544

Stephen,
528

Stesanor,
103

Stoics,
265
,
412
,
536
,
596

stola
,
447

Strabo,
511

Suetonius,
581
–2,
586

Sulla, Cornelius,
7
,
343
–5,
352
,
372
,
393
,
405

Sulpicius Rufus,
343
–4,
401

Susa,
86
,
269

suttee,
271

Sybaris,
36
,
86
,
138

Syme, Ronald,
410

symposia
,
45
–6,
61
,
141
,
216
,
289

Syracuse, ch. 10
passim
,
134
,
160
,
163
,
202
,
299
,
310

Syracusan
(boat),
300

Syria, Syrians,
244
,
247
,
252
,
266
,
270
,
355
,
409
,
434
–5,
510
,
512

Tacitus,
420
, ch. 54
passim

Tanagra,
44

Tanagra figurines,
190
,
216

Tarentum (modern Taranto),
72
,
285
–6,
287
,
295
–9,
310
,
426

Tarpeia,
284

Tarquin the Proud,
403

Tarquinia,
87
,
117
,
119

Tarquinius Priscus,
87
,
119

Tarsus,
422
,
527

Tegea,
539

Terentia (wife of Cicero),
361
,
401

Terpander,
73

Terracina,
120

Tertullian,
591

Thales,
84
,
85

Thasos,
138

Thebes,
178
–81,
190
,
194
,
197
,
224
,
226
,
234

Themistocles,
106
,
109
–10,
132
,
154
,
155
,
167

Theocritus,
250

Theodectes,
217

Theophrastus,
186
,
218
,
256
,
266
–7

Theopompus,
195
,
367

Thermopylae,
75
, ch. 9
passim
,
317

Thersilion,
183

Thersites,
21

Theseus,
274

Thesmophoria,
53

Thessaly,
146
,
183
; Thessalian horses,
105
,
115

thêtes
,
66
–7

Thetima,
9

Thirty Tyrants,
174

Thrace,
196
,
197
,
210
,
244
,
245

Thucydides,
165
–8,
332
; dating of the trireme,
41
; on Pericles,
153
; on Sparta,
70

Thurii,
157
,
168
,
176
,
282
,
285
–6,
287

Tiber (river),
480
,
539
; (god),
482

Tiberius,
450
,
462
,
466
,
469
,
478
,
482
–3,
491
–2,
495
,
497
,
498
,
587

Tibur (modern Tivoli),
593

Tiepolo,
422

Tigellinus,
468
,
497
–8

Tigris (river),
253
,
256
,
578

Timaeus,
299
,
332

Timanthes,
67

Timocles,
218

Timon of Athens,
429

Tiro,
361
,
562

Titus,
454
,
459
,
535
,
542

toga,
289
,
447
,
516
,
519

Tolstoy,
327

Tomyris,
100

tragedy,
see
drama

Trajan,
454
,
456
,
545
,
560
,
562
–3, ch. 53
passim;
Trajan’s column,
575
,
577

Trasimene, Lake,
306
,
315

Trebbia (river),
306

tribes (Roman),
119
,
279
,
287
,
263

tribunes,
280
,
345
; of the plebs,
120
–21,
284
,
562

Trimalchio,
556
–7

triremes,
41
,
68
,
81
,
104
,
142
–3,
221

trittyes
,
92

Triumvirate, Second,
415
,
434

Troezen,
109

Trojan War,
16
,
22
,
109
,
116

Troy,
16
,
18
,
21
,
158
,
235
,
243
,
317
; fall of,
326
; ‘Troy Game’,
400
,
447

Tullia,
361
,
362
,
401

Turia,
419

Turkish bath,
36

Twelve Tables,
119
–20,
273
,
274
,
283
,
345

Tyne (river),
231

tyrants, ch. 5
passim
,
89
–91,
115

Tyre,
30
,
31
,
112
,
234

Tyrtaeus,
74
,
78
,
162

Umbricius Scaurus,
552

Uranopolis,
252

Valerius Asiaticus,
500

Varro,
290
,
354
,
401
,
442

Varus,
469

Vasio (modern Vaison),
583

Veii,
281

Veleda,
534

Ventidius,
425

Venus,
309
,
345
–6,
369
,
385
,
421

Verginius,
534

Verona,
560

Verres,
359

Vespasian,
519
,
532
,
533
–7,
539
–42

Vesta,
see
Hearth

Vestal Virgins,
275
,
278
,
292

Vesuvius, Mount,
547
,
550

Vettii,
556

Via Salaria,
118

vicomagistri
,
480

vigiles
,
479

Vindex,
534

Virgil,
290
,
420
,
430
,
434
,
438
–9,
442
,
447
,
474
,
512
; in graffiti,
550
,
553

Vistilia,
450

Vitellius,
533
–4

Volumnia,
421

voting: at Athens,
94
–5,
97
,
152
; at Rome,
279
,
339
–40,
349
–51,
483
–4

Weser (river),
469

Wharton, Edith,
8

woikeis
,
66

women: Aristotle on,
208
–9; in Greek society,
20
,
40
,
53
–4,
81
–2,
116
,
143
–5, ch. 17
passim;
Plato on,
204
; political exclusion of,
25
,
94
,
96
,
143
; in Roman society,
278
,
284
–5

Xanthippe (wife of Socrates),
170

Xanthippus,
152

Xenocrates,
211

Xenophanes,
85

Xenophon,
169
,
170
,
173
,
333

Xerxes, ch. 9
passim

Yaweh,
100
,
522

yeti,
230

Zealots,
521
,
522
,
526

Zela,
397

Zeno,
265

Zenon,
267
–8

Zeus,
51
,
55
,
172
,
242
; Eleutherios,
50
,
89
,
109
; temple at Acragas,
112
; temple at Athens,
59

Zoroaster,
84
,
100
; Zoroastrians,
108

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