‘Such is the story which I heard the stranger relate...But you and your friends, Lamprias, may take the story in what way you will.’
Compare: ‘I am persuaded, O Callicles, that these things that are told are true...Perchance this shall seem to you an old wife’s fable, and thou wilt despise it: well mightest thou despise it, if by searching we could find out aught better and truer’ (_Gorgias_, 526 D, 527 A). The astronomy of the myth is in the main that of the preceding Dialogue, and Sylla shows considerable familiarity with Plato and also with Xenocrates. It is perhaps noticeable how little interest Plutarch shows in geographical detail, contenting himself with such vague and antiquated views as sufficed for a setting to the story. He appears not to name Pytheas at all in the _Lives_, and only once (on a question of the tides) in the _Moralia_.
The whole Dialogue has been the subject of a careful study by Dr. Max Adler of Vienna (_Dissertationes Vindobonenses_, 1910). Without entering into his general view of the structure, we may observe that Dr. Adler seems to be very successful in establishing the close connexion between it and the Dialogue _On the Cessation of the Oracles_, which he is probably right—though he reserves the proofs—in regarding as based upon it, and later in date. This comes out especially in the passages about the captivity of Cronus (cp. p. 301 with pp. 135-6), and the argument quotation from Maximus Tyrius to establish beyond doubt that the source of an important passage about mind (pp. 271-2) was in Posidonius. His general conclusion as to the myth, is that it too is in the main from Posidonius, and that when Plutarch draws upon Xenocrates, it is through Posidonius. The latter appears to have been a writer of great industry and encyclopaedic learning, quoted as an authority on matters of history, physical geography, and what we should now call anthropology; not an original force in Philosophy, but successful in reconciling systems and making them available for human needs; one the aim of whose life-work was, in the words of one of his most recent exponents, _to make men at home in the universe_ (_Stoics and Sceptics_, by Edwyn Bevan, p. 98).
Any one who will read Sylla’s myth, with a good map of the moon’s surface before him, will be able to locate for himself the ‘Gulf of Hecate’, and the long valleys leading to the Elysian plains, which, on her side remote from earth, enjoy diffused sunlight. There need be no idea of shafts or tunnels driven through the solid body of the moon.
Cicero’s _Dream of Scipio_, written more than a century before Plutarch’s Dialogue, and also drawn from Posidonius, will be found an admirable companion piece, enforcing, in language of singular beauty and elevation, those duties to country and ancestors which find inadequate expression in the Greek thought of the first century of our era.
NOTE ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS AND THE FIVE REGULAR SOLIDS The opinion that our World, or universe, is not the only one in the Whole, is attributed, in general terms, to many of the early Greek philosophers, notably to Anaximander. The exact meaning of a ‘Cosmos’, in this connexion, is perhaps not easy to fix. Aristotle is clear that the circle of the fixed stars is one and constant, but the author of the Stoical treatise on the Cosmos, found among his works, takes stars to be a part of the (one) Cosmos. An earth, such as ours with her atmosphere and moon, is essential, and a sun, or access to sunlight, and perhaps some planets. In the _Dream of Scipio_ our solar system, with the earth in its centre, is described with great distinctness as a unit in space.
The planets are always regarded as luminous points, stars somewhat out of place (see p. 268), possessing no definite magnitude or solid substance.
In theory the number of Cosmi might be infinite, but a shrinking from the vague ‘Infinity’, in later times associated with the Epicureans, led Plato, for instance, to restrict the number to a possible five. That he based this number upon that of the five regular solids may seem fanciful, but the solid angles and forms observed in crystals might reasonably suggest the hypothesis that the ultimate constituents of the crust of the earth would be found in the most perfect solid structures known to theory. In theory there is much that is attractive in these five solids. To one coming fresh from a study of Plane Polygonal Figures, which exist in infinite number, and, when regular, approximate more and more closely to the Plane Circle, it comes as a surprise to find that, in the next higher degree, the number of solid bodies so approximating to the Sphere is five only. Again, it seems almost a paradox that, of these five, the nearest approximation to the Sphere is attained, not by the body with twenty fine faces, but by that which shews only twelve, and those comparatively blunted and unshapely (pentagons). It was perhaps from such considerations that the Dodecahedron was held of special importance by the Pythagoreans. Plato’s study of the several faces of these solids, as available for construction or reconstruction of a world, leaves nothing to be desired, assuming that a solid body can be built out of plane figures, an assumption which appears to belong to the same habit of thought as that which makes the point the square of unity, and the lineal measure corresponding to the number two the first rectangle. As the pentagon defies the analysis available for the equilateral triangle or for the square, the Dodecahedron remains over, a model or pattern of a stitch-work world, as viewed from outside (_Phaedo_ 110 B and _Timaeus_ not be amiss to be reminded that Kepler, mathematician as well as astronomer, spent many toilsome years in the endeavour to arrange the members of our solar system upon a plan based on the five solids. ‘If Kepler went out “to seek his father’s asses”, he found a kingdom, for it was in the course of these speculations, and through them, that he discovered not only his own “Third Law”, but also the truth, overlooked by Copernicus, that the orbit of each planet lies in a plane which passes through the centre of the sun.’ (Dreyer, _Planetary Systems_, p.
410.)
The discussion of the plurality of worlds, in the modern sense, begins with the very attractive work of Fontenelle, brought out, in its original form, in 1686, a year before Newton’s _Principia_, being a series of conversations between the Author and a witty and accomplished Marquise, as to the habitability of the several members of the solar system. The argument which followed is distinguished by many great names, those of Newton himself, Bentley, Huyghens, the Herschels, Dr.
Chalmers, till it was brought to a head in the middle of the nineteenth century by Dr. Whewell and Sir David Brewster, writing respectively against and for the hypothesis. The subject was then one (as readers of Anthony Trollope will remember) upon which any one might be called upon to take a side in a London drawing-room. In more recent times interest has been concentrated upon Mars, who now possesses the distinction of having two satellites. We are only concerned to invite the reader to compare the religious argument addressed to the Stoics by Plutarch (p.
142 foll.) with the religious argument drawn by Dr. Chalmers and Sir David Brewster from the enrichment of the providential scheme for man upon our earth which would follow the conception of other earths tenanted by other beings perhaps of a higher order.
But it is natural that any such speculation should begin with the moon, and in fact we find the question of her habitability discussed by Theon and by Lamprias (pp. 293-9). With the later treatises on this subject, beginning with Lucian’s witty flight of fancy, we are not concerned. But an exception must be made for the very able works of Savinien de Cyrano, known to us as Cyrano de Bergerac, whose _Histoire comique des États et Empires de la Lune_ appeared, probably, in 1650, and was followed by a similar work about the sun. Cyrano appears to be familiar with Plutarch: thus he meets in the moon the ‘daemon of Socrates’, who has also been the tutelary spirit of Epaminondas, of Cato of Utica, and of Brutus. The idea (due in the first place to Heraclitus) of being fed on smells, is worked out with much vivacity. But with so original and daring a writer, it is not quite easy to settle how much is due to any hint from others and how much to himself. A modern reader will not need to be reminded that Cyrano was not a person of whom it was wise to give an outspoken opinion in his lifetime. But I had wished to speak with nothing but respect of a man of real learning and genius, who, from whatever cause, did not bring to perfection any work worthy of himself.
See, on the general subject, an Essay by the late Professor Henry J. S.
INDEX OF PERSONS AND PLACES MENTIONED BY PLUTARCH IN THESE DIALOGUES ¶ In this Index the Greek spelling of ei (Lat. ī) has been usually retained.
All dates are B. C. unless otherwise stated.
The dates are often approximate and conventional.
Other numerals refer to pages of this volume.
For the speakers in each Dialogue see that Dialogue _passim_ and the Introductions.
(The ‘Three Pythian Dialogues’ are quoted under that designation See p.
52.)
A.
Academy, Academic, the School founded by Plato in ‘the most beautiful Acanthus, Acanthian, a town of the Chalcidice, 94, 95.
Achaeans, 102.
Achaeus, 95.
Achĕron, a river of the lower world, 227.
Achilles, 294.
Admētus, king of Pherae in Thessaly, and husband of Alcestis, 132.
Adōnis (‘Gardens of Adonis’ were cut flowers planted in pots), 199.
Adrasteia, a name for Nemesis, ‘the unescapable’, 207.
Aegīna, an island in the Saronic Gulf, opposite to Athens, 99.
Aegon, 85.
Aegos Potami, a river, and in later times a town, in the Chersonese, famous for the sea-battle of 405, in which Lysander defeated the Athenian fleet, 88.
Aeolian, 121.
Aeolĭdae, 132.
Aeschylus, tragic poet of Athens, (525-456), 67, 132, 162, 265.
Aesop of Samos, writer of fables (fl. 570), a freedman of Iadmon of Samos, 94, 192.
Aetna, Mount, in Sicily, 271.
Aetolians, 92.
Agathŏclēs, 193.
Agāvē, daughter of Cadmus, and mother of Pentheus, 226.
Agenorĭdas, 13.
Agesianax (or Hegesianax), a poet, probably of Alexandria, third century, 260, 261.
Agesilaüs II, the lame king of Sparta, reigned 398-361 (see his _Life_) 11, 13, 91.
Aglaonīcē, 130.
Aglaŏphon, 166.
Agrigentum (Acragas), a town on the south coast of Sicily, 184.
Aïdoneus (Hades), 77.
Ajax, 193, 230.
Alcaeus, of Lesbos, lyric poet (fl. 600), 118.
Alcibiădes 450-404, Athenian politician, 19, 183.
Alcman, lyric poet of Sparta (fl. 630), 297.
Alcmēna, wife of Amphitryon and mother of Hercules; (on her sanctuary, in a grove near Thebes, see Pausan. ix. 16. 4), 11, 12, 13.
Alĕüs, 12.
Alexander, the Great, 95, 192, 233.
Alexis, of Thurii, poet of the so-called ‘Middle Attic Comedy’, fourth century, 137.
Aloădes, Otus and Ephialtes, giant sons of Iphimedeia, wife of Aloeus Alopĕcus, 109.
Alphēüs, a river of Arcadia and Elis, 160.
Alyattes, king of Lydia and father of Croesus (d. 560), 96.
Alyrius, 100.
Amēstris, 235.
Ammon, the temple of Zeus Ammon in an oasis of the Libyan Desert to the Ammonius, an Athenian philosopher of the first century A. D., the instructor of Plutarch. A speaker in the First and Third Pythian Amphiaraüs of Argos, prince and seer, who accompanied the Seven Chieftains against Thebes, and was swallowed up by the earth there, 121.
Amphictyons, ‘Dwellers around’, whose council met at Thermopylae and at Pylaea, a suburb of Delphi, 95, 110.
Amphilŏchus, son of Amphiaraüs, worshipped at Malli in Cilicia, 163, 205.
Amphīon, the district of Thebes between the rivers Strophia and Ismenus (Pausan. ix. 16 and 17), 10.
Amphipolis, a town of Macedon on the Strymon, taken by Brasidas in 424, 175 _n._ Amphitheüs, a Theban patriot, imprisoned by the Polemarchs, 11, 29, 43, 50.
Amphitryon, father of Hercules, 13.
Anactorium, a town and promontory of Acarnania, 184.
Andocĭdes, 16.
Androcleidas, a Theban patriot, assassinated when a refugee in Athens, 46.
Antichthon, 306.
Antigŏnus, younger son of Demetrius Sotēr, king of Syria (d. 125), 204.
Antipater, son of Cassander, king of Macedon, succeeded his brother Philip, and was himself murdered, 198.
Antiphon, 18.
Aphroditē, goddess of love, 189, 232, 272.
Apollocrates, son of Dionysius the younger, of Syracuse (d. 354), 198.
Apollodōrus, tyrant of Cassandria (Potidaea) from 379, 189, 191.
Apollonia, a town in Illyria founded from Corinth, 184.
Apollonia, a town in Pisidia, 96.
Apollonides, a speaker in the _Face in the Moon_. ὁ τακτικός (_Sympos._ 3, 4).
Arabia, 297.
Arcadia, Arcadians, 176.
Arcĕsus, Lacedaemonian Harmost, 29, 51.
Arcĕsus, of Sicily, 22.
Archelaüs, king of Macedon, 413-399, friend and host of Euripides, 59.
Archias, of Athens, the priest, 47.
Archias, of Thebes. A member of the oligarchical party, and made a Archilŏchus, 714-676, of Paros, lyric and iambic poet, 63, 199, 230, 282.
Archīnus, 7.
Archȳtas of Tarentum, mathematician and statesman, fl. 300 (see _Life Argos, Argive, 85, 186.
Aridaeus, 206.
Aristarchus of Samos, astronomer and physicist (310-230), 98, 264, 269, 283.
Aristarchus, critic, of Samothrace and Alexandria (fl. 156), 295.
Aristocrătes, king of Arcadia (stoned to death 668), 176.
Aristodēmus, king of Messenia (d. 723), 229, 230.
Ariston, 186, 195.
Aristonīca, 104.
Aristotle, 384-322, founder of the Peripatetic School at Athens, 69, Aristotle (see p. 255), a Peripatetic, who takes part in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_.
Aristyllus, an astronomer (fl. 233), 98.
Arnē, a town in Thessaly, 158.
Arsălus, 138, 139.
Artemisium, on the north coast of Euboea, where the Greek fleet defeated that of Xerxes in 480, 183.
Asclepius (Aesculapius), 185.
Assyrians, 288.
Asterium, 92.
Athămas, 190, 226.
Atlas, a giant son of Iapĕtus and brother of Prometheus, identified with a mountain in NW. Africa, 65, 265.
Attĭca, 162.
Augeas, king of the Epeans; slain for bad faith by Hercules, and succeeded by Phyleus, 204.
Ausonius, a Latin poet of Bordeaux (A.D. 310-90), 127 _n._ Autolycus, son of Hermes, and grandfather of Ulysses, famed for his cunning, 185.
B.
Bacchus, 209.
Bacchylĭdas, 20.
Bacis, an ancient Boeotian seer, connected in story with the Corycian cave, 90.
Bakerwoman, the, 96.
Basilocles, a speaker in the introductory part of the Second Pythian Dialogue.
Battus, of Thera, founder of Cyrene (see Herod. 4, 150 foll.), 103, 108.
Bessus, 186.
Bias, sixth century; of Priēnē in Ionia; one of the Seven Wise Men, 61.
Bion, a Scythian philosopher and wit of the third century, 86, 201, 229.
Boēthus, a young geometrician and Epicurean (probably an Athenian), a speaker in the Second Pythian Dialogue (cp. _Sympos._ 5, 1 and 8, 3).
Branchĭdae, 193.
Briăreus, 135, cf. 299.
Byzantium, 189.
C.
Cabirĭchus, 48.
Cadmeia, the citadel of Thebes, 8, 10, 12, 30, 51.
Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, 87.
Caesar, the Emperor Augustus (63-A.D. 14), 62.
Caligŭla, 233.
Callias, a rich Athenian, see the _Symposium_ of Xenophon and the _Protagoras_ of Plato, 95.
Callippus, 185.
Callistrătus, of Athens, 49.
Callistratus, archon of Delphi, 117.
Calondas, 199.
Capheisias, of Thebes, son of Polymnis and brother of Epaminondas; the chief speaker in the First Pythian Dialogue.
Caria, 13.
Carystus, on the S. coast of Euboea, noted for its marble and asbestos, 162.
Caspian Sea, supposed until Ptolemy to be an inlet of Ocean, though Herodotus describes it as an inland water (1, 202-3), 300, 305.
Cassander, 354-297, king of Macedon, began the restoration of Thebes in 315: 184, 197.
Cĕbēs, of Thebes, a companion of Socrates (see the _Critias_ and Cecrops, 182.
Chaereas, 233.
Chaerēmon, an Athenian tragic poet (fl. 380), 104.
Chaeroneia, in Boeotia, on the borders of Phocis; Plutarch’s native town, 35, 121.
Chaldaeans, 62.
Charillus, 17.
Charybdis, 218.
Cheiron, the Centaur, instructor of Achilles, 65.
Chersonese, the Thracian, 183.
Chilon, one of the Seven Wise Men, 61.
Chios, 275.
Chius, 108.
Chlidon, 31, 44.
Cleanthes, a Stoic philosopher, b. 300, at Assos in the Troad, 264.
Clearchus, a Peripatetic philosopher of Soli, pupil of Aristotle, 260, 262.
Chonūphis, 13.
Chrysippus (280-207), the Stoic philosopher, born at Soli in Cilicia, 134, 146, 147.
Cilicia, 163, 205.
Cimmerians, 231.
Cimon, 183, 195.
Cinaethon, 107.
Cinēsias, dithyrambic poet of Athens (fl. 400), 232.
Cithaeron, the mountain range between Attica and Boeotia, 8, 43.
Clazomĕnae, a city in Ionia, 39.
Cleander, of Aegina, 99.
Cleisthĕnes, of Sicyon, 185.
Cleobulīnē, 95.
Cleobūlus, tyrant of Lindus in Rhodes, sixth century. One of the Seven Wise Men, 61.
Cleombrŏtus, of Lacedaemon, a speaker in the Third Pythian Dialogue.
Cleon, of Daulia, 169.
Cleōnae, a city in the Peloponnesus, 94, 185.
Cleonīcē, 189.
Cleotīmus, 99.
Clio, the Muse of History, 97.
Clotho, one of the Fates, 37, 308, 315.
Clytaemnēstra, 188.
Cnidus, a city of Caria, 14, 88, 122.
Conon, 7.
Copreus, 185.
Cora (Persephone), daughter of Demeter, 302.
Corax, 199.
Corcȳra, Corcyrean, 193.
Corētas, 161, 165.
Corōnē (Crow), 122.
Corybantes, priests of Cybele, 306.
Corycium, the Corycian cave, on the slopes of Parnassus, 7-1/2 miles NE. of Delphi, and 3,500 feet above it (Pausanias x. 32, 2), 82.
Crates, a Cynic philosopher (fl. 328), 94, 95.
Crates, a critic, of Pergamos (born at Mallus in Cilicia, fl. 155), 295.
_Cratylus_, a Dialogue of Plato, on etymology, 71.
Crete, 131, 200.
Cretīnus, 108.
Critias, of Carthage, 234.
Croesus, king of Lydia, d. 540 (see Herod. 1-3), 96, 192.
306, 308.
Crotōna, a Greek colony in southern Italy, 21.
_Cyclops_, a satyric play of Euripides, 164; and see 193.
Cydias, an early poet, 282.
Cydnus, a river of Cilicia, 160.
Cylon, Cylonians, 21, 22.
Cymé (Cumae), a city on the coast of Campania, 90.
Cypsĕlus, of Corinth, tyrant 655-625, father of Periander, 94.
Cyzĭcus, a city of Mysia, 14.
D.
Dactyli, workers in iron, &c., of Mt. Ida in Phrygia, 306.
Daïphantus, 194.
Daulia, a town of Phocis, 169.
Deinomĕnes, of Syracuse, 99.
Delium in Boeotia, battle of, 424 (see _Life of Alcibiades_, c. 7, and Dēlos, an island in the Aegean, sacred to Apollo, 13, 14, 60, 63, 77, 121.
Demetrius, a speaker in the Third Pythian Dialogue.
Demetrius, king of Macedon 294-287 (Poliorcētēs), 204.
Democrĭtus, a philosopher, of Abdēra in Thrace (460-361), 134, 277.
Diagŏras, of Melos, a disciple of Democritus (fl. 420), 234.
Diës (plural of Zeus), 146.
Dicaearcheia, the old name of Puteŏli, a city on the coast of Campania, 90, 211.
Dicaearchus, a Peripatetic philosopher and writer on questions of literary history, contemporary with Aristotle, 59.
Didymus, a Cynic philosopher (nicknamed Planetiădes), takes part in the opening of the Third Pythian Dialogue.
Diogenianus, a speaker in the Second Pythian Dialogue. For his father, Diŏmede, 102.
Dion of Syracuse (d. 356), see his _Life_, by Plutarch, 186.
Dionysius, the Elder, 430-367, tyrant of Syracuse, 184, 197.
Dionȳsus (or Bacchus), the wine-god, born at Thebes, 67, 68, 138, 139, 209.
Diotŏnus, 45.
Dircē, daughter of Helios, wife of Lycus, whose sons by Antiope, Amphion and Zethus, slew her and threw her body into a well at Thebes. The Fountain of Dirce was near the Crenaean Gate, 12.
R. Dirce was the westernmost of the three Theban streams.
Dolon, 132.
Dorian, Doric, 138, 140.
Dryus, 138.
E.
Earth (temple of, at Delphi), 97.
Echecrătēs, a ‘prophet’ of Tegyra, 121.
Echinădĕs, islands off the coast of Acarnania, 134.
293, 296.
Elis, Elean, a state of the Peloponnesus, 94.
Ellopion, 13.
Empedocles of Agrigentum, philosopher and poet (fl. 444), 16, 93, 98, Endymion, 307.
Epameinondas, son of Polymnis, brother of Capheisias, and friend of Epicharmus, of Cos and Syracuse, writer of philosophical comedies (540-450), 196.
Epicūrus, of Samos, 342-270, philosopher and founder of the School of 146, 163, 262.
A modern ‘Epicurus’ is introduced into the Dialogue on the _Delays in Divine Punishment_, but leaves before its beginning.
Epicȳdēs, 191.
Epidaurus, a town and state next to Argolis, 99.
Epimenĭdes, of Phaestus in Crete, a poet and prophet (fl. 600), 117, 298.
Epitherses, 134.
Erĕbus, 230.
Erĕsus, a city of Lesbos, 140.
Eretria, a city on the west coast of Euboea, 96.
Erianthes, 29.
Eridănus, the river Po, 193.
Erinnys, the, 207.
Eriphȳlē, 186.
Erōs (Love), 272.
Erythrae, an Ionian city, 95, 99.
Euboea, 162.
Eudoxus, of Cnidus, 408-355, astronomer and mathematician, and founder of the School of Cyzicus, 14, 97, 98.
Eumētis, 95.
Eumolpĭdas, 10.
Eurycleis, 126.
Eurymĕdon, a river in Pamphylia; in 469 Cimon defeated the Persians on its banks, 183.
Eustrŏphus, a speaker in the First Pythian Dialogue.
Euthyphron, a disciple of Socrates (see the Dialogue of Plato which bears his name), 16, 17.
F.
Fortune, 89, 90.
G.
Galaxius, in Boeotia, 110.
Gauls, 222, 234.
Gedrosia, a district on the Indus and Indian Ocean (SE. part of Beloochistan), 296.
Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse (d. 478), 99, 182.
Getae, 190.
Giants, 235.
Glaucé, 87.
Glaucus, 191, 230.
Gorgias, of Leontini, 480-398, teacher of rhetoric (see the _Gorgias_ of Plato), 22, 137.
Great Mother, the (Cybele), 107.
Great Year, the, 138.
Guides, the, of the temple and treasures of Delphi, apparently two in Gullies, the (cp. Rhetiste), 19.
Gyrean, cape, 230.
H.
Haliartus, a town of Boeotia on Lake Copaïs, 15 miles NW. of Thebes, 11, 12, 109.
Hamadryads, 127.
Hector, 230.
Hecŭba, 130, 233.
Hegētor, 130.
Helĕnus, son of Priam, a prophet, 41.
Helĭcon, of Cyzicus, mathematician and astronomer, mentioned in Plutarch’s _Life of Dion_, as having foretold a solar eclipse, 14.
Helĭcon, a mountain (5,000 ft.) in Boeotia, 89.
Hephaestus, the lame god of fire (see _Il._ 1. 590), 263.
Hēra, 193, 232.
Heracleia, probably a town in Phrygia, 189.
Heracleidae, 195.
Heracleitus, philosopher of Ephesus (end of sixth century), 73, 74, 87, Heraea, the, a festival at Thebes, 31.
Heraea, a town of Arcadia, 169.
Heracleon, of Megara, a speaker in the Third Pythian Dialogue.
226, 300, 307.
Hercŭlēs, Pillars of, 305.
Herippĭdas, 29, 51.
Hermodōrus, 39.
Hermolaüs, 233.
Herodĭcus, 187.
Herodŏtus, the historian, of Halicarnassus (484-408), 100, 131, 166.
Herophĭlé, 95.
Hesiod, the ancient Boeotian poet, eighth century, 42, 86, 98, 123, Hesperus (the Evening Star, or planet Venus), 154, 215, 268, 273.
Hiĕro, of Syracuse, brother of Gelon (d. 467). A munificent benefactor Hiĕro, the Lacedaemonian (killed in the battle of Leuctra 371), 88.
Himĕra, a town of Sicily, 140.
Hipparchus, the astronomer, of Rhodes and Alexandria, native of Nicaea in Bithynia (fl. from 160), 98, 261.
Hipparchus (son of Pisistratus), 189.
Hippocrătes, 182.
Hippys, of Rhegium, an early Greek historian, 140.
Hoplītes, river in Boeotia, 109.
Hyampeia, one of two cliffs above Thebes, 192.
Hypătes, 47, 49.
Hypatodōrus, 29.
I.
Iadmōn, 192.
Ida, Mt., in Phrygia, 306.
Iêïus, ‘invoked with the cry iē! (or iē paion!),‘ i. e. Apollo, 76.
Ilithyia, 308.
Ilium (Troy), 166.
Indian, 140.
Ino, daughter of Cadmus and wife of Athamas, a tragic heroine, 190.
Ion Chius, a writer of plays, and anecdotist (fl. 450), 276.
Iphĭtus, killed by Hercules, who had stolen the oxen of his father Eurytus, 185.
Isis, 296.
Ismenian, a name of Apollo, 60.
Ismenias, a Theban of the popular party and Polemarch, arrested by Leontides, tried by a commission appointed by Sparta, on a charge of ‘medizing’, and executed (see _Life of Pelopidas_), 8.
Ismenidōrus, 20.
Ismēnus, the principal (most easterly) river of Thebes, 15.
Isodaités, ‘equal divider,’ a name of Dionysus, 67.
Ister, a Greek historian, or antiquarian, 100.
Ister, the Danube, 148.
Isthmus (of Corinth), Isthmian, 94.
Ithaca, 193· Ixīon, 293.
J.
Jason, Tagus of Thessaly (d. 370), known as ‘Prometheus’; (see Plutarch Jews, 231.
L.
Lachărēs, an Athenian demagogue (fl. 296), 195.
Lachēs, Athenian general; fell at Mantineia, 418. A Dialogue of Plato bears his name, 19.
Lachĕsis, one of the Fates, 37, 308, 315.
Lamia, 89.
Lamprias, Plutarch’s brother (also the name of his grandfather); a speaker in the First and Third Pythian Dialogues and in the _Face in Lamprocles, 35.
Latōna, 232.
Law Courts, the, 17.
Lebadeia, near the western frontier of Boeotia, the seat of the oracle of Trophonius, 120, 157.
Lēda, daughter of Thestius, and mother of Helen and Clytaemnēstra, Castor, and Polydeuces, 95.
Lemnos, 290.
Leontĭdes, one of the polemarchs at Thebes, 8, 10, 11, 12, 47, 49.
Leontīni, a city of Sicily, 22.
Lesbos, 194.
Leschenorian, 60.
Leucas, Leucadia, 184, 193.
Leuctra, a village of Boeotia, between Thespiae and Plataea (famous for the battle between the Spartans and Thebans in 371), 88.
Lindos, a town on the eastern coast of Rhodes, 61.
Livia, the empress, wife of Augustus, and mother, by her first Locris, 193.
Lucania, 22.
Lucius, a speaker in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_.
Lycians, 138, 139.
Lyciscus, 177.
Lycormae, 195.
Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, ninth century, 99.
Lycuria (an ancient name for the summit of Parnassus), a village near the Corycian cave, 82.
Lydia, 121.
Lydiădas, 183.
Lysander, the Spartan naval commander who finished the Peloponnesian war. He fell in battle against the Thebans, 395, at Haliartus (see Lysimăchus, 189.
Lysis, a Pythagorean teacher, driven from Italy to Thebes, where he Lysitheides, 7.
Lysitheüs, 48.
M.
Maeotic Bay (Sea of Azov), 300.
Magi, the, 126.
Magnesia, district of Thessaly, 96.
Malis, 89.
Marăthon, on the east coast of Attica (famous for the battle of 490), 183.
Mardonius, the Persian general (defeated and killed at Plataea, 479), 121.
Marius, 184.
Medes, 288.
Megalopŏlis, the chief town of Arcadia, 183.
Megăra, a city on the Saronic gulf, 18, 96, 122, 124.
Megasthĕnēs, a Greek writer on India (fl. 300), 294.
Melanthius, an Athenian tragic poet (fl. 420), 181.
Melētus, one of the three accusers of Socrates, a poet, 16.
Melissus, 20.
Melos, an island in the Aegean, 166.
Memphis, a city of Egypt, on the Nile, 13.
Menaechmus, 14 _n._ Menelaüs, a speaker in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_.
Mercury (the planet), 154, cp. 268.
Meriŏnēs, 131.
Metapontium (Metapontum), a Greek city in Southern Italy, 21, 88.
Mētrodōrus, of Chios, a disciple of Democritus (fl. 330), 137, 275.
Midas, a mythical king of Phrygia, 229.
Milētus, a city of Caria, 23, 193.
Miltiădes, son of Cimon, the victor of Marathon, 183.
Mimnermus, elegiac poet, of Smyrna and Colophon (fl. 600), 282.
Minos, son of Zeus, king of Crete, and afterwards a judge in Hades, 179.
Mitys, of Argos, 186.
Mnesarĕtē (Phryne), 94, 95.
Mnesinoē, 95.
Molionĭdae, the sons of Actor, by Molione, 94.
Molus, 131.
Mopsus, founder of Mallos in Cilicia, where he had an oracle, 163.
Myrĭna, an Aeolian town on the west coast of Mysia, 96.
Myron, 185.
Myrtălē, 95.
Mys, a Carian, employed by Mardonius to consult the oracles in Greece, 121.
N.
Nāïd, the, 127.
Nauplia, the port of Argos, 192.
Navel, the, at Delphi, 117.
Naxos, an island in the Aegean, 199.
Neleus, father of Nestor, 204.
Neobūlē, 63.
Neochōrus, 109.
Neoptolĕmus, son of Achilles, 45.
Nero, A. D. 37-68. The Roman Emperor. He visited Greece (the province of Achaia) in A. D. 67, and proclaimed its freedom at the Isthmian games: 60, 213.
Nesĭchus, 108.
Nestor, 204.
Nicander, a priest of the temple at Delphi, 62, 63, 72, 170.
Nicias, the Athenian general (d. 414 at Syracuse, see his _Life_), 23, 229.
Night, 210.
Night-watcher (Nycturus), the, an early name for the planet Cronus (Saturn), 300.
Niŏbē, 232.
Nisaeus, 197.
Nisibeüs, 204.
Nyctelius, ‘nightly’; used as a name of Dionysus, 67.
O.
Odysseus (Ulysses), 16, 102.
Oechalia, a town in Euboea (according to the story followed by Sophocles) taken by Hercules, 131.
Oeta, a mountain range in Thessaly, 186.
Ogygia, the name given by Homer to the island of Calypso (_Od._ 1, 50, &c.), 299.
Olympia, in Elis, 160.
Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great, 95.
Olympicus, a speaker in the Dialogue on the _Delays in Divine Punishment_.
Olympus, a mountain (9,754 ft.) between Thessaly and Macedon, the seat of Zeus, 70, 93.
Olynthus, a town in the Chalcidice (taken by Sparta 379), 8.
Onomacrĭtus, an Athenian poet and antiquarian (520-485), 107.
Opheltiădae, 194.
Opus, Opuntian, a Locrian town, 96.
Orchalĭdes, 109.
Orchomĕnus, a city of Boeotia, 163, 176.
Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytaemnēstra, 95.
Orneae, a town in Argolis, 95.
Orphic, 72.
Orthagŏras, 185.
Osīris, an Egyptian deity, 138.
P.
Paeonia, a district of Thrace, 186.
Pallas (Athene); her image at Athens (Palladium) was believed to have been brought from Troy by Diomede. Another Palladium stood on the Palōdĕs, the, 134, 135.
Pan, 134, 135.
Pandărus, a Lycian archer, 102.
Parmenĭdes, of Elea in Italy, a philosopher (b. 513), 98, 272, 277.
Parnassus, the mountain (8,000 ft.) above Delphi, the highest point of a range of the same name, 210.
Parnēs, a mountain range near the northern frontier of Attica, 19.
Path, the, the Peripatetic School, 260.
Patrocleas; Plutarch’s son-in-law, a speaker in the Dialogues on the 5, 7; 7, 2.
200; (2) the slayer of Philip of Macedon, 233.
Pauson, a Greek painter of the fourth century. Aristotle (_Poet._ c. 2) speaks of his style as that of caricature: 86.
Paxi, two islands south of Corcyra, 134.
Peisistrătus, tyrant of Athens, (d. 527), 182, 189.
Pelopĭdas, Theban general and friend of Epaminondas; fell at Penelope, 135.
Peparēthus, an island in the Aegean, off Thessaly, 13.
Periander, tyrant of Corinth from 625; one of the Seven Wise Men, 61, 184, 224.
Petraeus, of Delphi, 111.
Petron, 140.
Phaestus, in Crete, 117.
Phaĕthon, a son of the Sun, 193.
Phalanthus, a Lacedaemonian, founder of Tarentum (about 708), 108.
Phalăris, tyrant of Agrigentum from 570: 184.
Phanaean, 60, 77.
Phanias, of Erĕsus in Lesbos, a Peripatetic philosopher, and pupil of Aristotle, who wrote also on history, 140.
Pharnăces (see p. 255), a Stoic, speaker in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_.
Pharsalia, 88.
Pheneātae, 193.
Phenĕüs, a town in Arcadia, 193.
Pherecȳdēs, a learned man of Syros (fl. 544), 294.
Pherenīcus, 8, 10.
Philēbus, a late Dialogue of Plato, on _Pleasure_, 71.
Philip of Macedon (d. 336), 233.
Philip, son of Cassander, king of Macedon (d. 296), 198.