Philip V, 237-179, king of Macedon, 91, 92.
Philippus, historian (of Prusa?), a speaker in the Third Pythian Philochŏrus of Athens, antiquarian and writer on legend (d. 260), 100.
Philolaüs, an early Pythagorean, 22.
Philomēlus, 88.
Phlĕgyas, of Orchomenus, a mythical hero, slain for impiety, 185.
Phoebĭdas, a Spartan general, who treacherously seized the Cadmeia in 382: 8.
Phosphor, Phosphorus (the planet Venus), 154, 268, 273.
Phrygia, 126, 306.
Phrynē, 95.
Phyleus, 204.
Pillars of Hercules (on the Straits of Gibraltar), 305.
227, 265, 273, 282.
Pisa, a town in, or adjoining, Elis, 94.
Pittăcus (652-569), patriot, and sole-ruler (‘aesymnete’) of Mytilēnē, one of the Seven Wise Men, 61.
Planetiădes (see Didymus).
Plataea, a city of Boeotia on the Asopus, near the frontier of Attica, 124.
Plato, of Thebes, 12.
Pleisthĕnes, son of Atreus and father of Agamemnon (but there are variations in the story), 188.
Pleistoănax, a king of Sparta (d. 408), 99.
Plutarch, introduced only into the Dialogues on the _‘E’ at Delphi_ (First Pythian Dialogue) and on the _Delays in Divine Punishment_, 232.
Pluto, 77.
Polycrătes, of Delphi, 111.
Polycrătes, of Samos, 224.
Polygnōtus, of Thasos, painter, chiefly of Homeric subjects at Athens and Delphi (fl. 450), 166.
Polymnis, of Thebes, father of Epaminondas and Capheisias, 13, 14, 19, 20, 22, 27.
Polystyle (e mute), the, 50.
Polyxĕna, 95.
Pompey the Great (d. 48), 185.
Porch, the, the Stoic School at Athens, 93.
Poseidon, 89, 146.
Poseidonius, of Apamea in Syria, a Stoic philosopher who taught Cicero, 278, 283, 316, 317.
Praxitĕles, the Athenian sculptor (fl. 364), 95.
Priam, 41, 230.
Procles, tyrant of Epidaurus and father-in-law of Periander, seventh century, 99.
Promētheus, son of the Titan Iapĕtus, 65.
Prōteus, a mythical king of Egypt (Herod. 2, 112), 13.
Protogĕnes, 205.
Prytaneum, the, 72.
Ptolemaeus (‘Ceraunus’, the Thunderbolt), king of Macedon (d. 280), 189.
Ptōüm, a mountain on the eastern side of the Copaïc lake, with a sanctuary of Apollo, 121, 124.
Punic, 91.
Pylaea, a suburb of Delphi, 110.
Pyrilampēs, a kinsman of Plato, 18.
Pythagoras, of Samos, sixth century, philosopher and traveller, 14, 16, 199.
Python, the serpent slain by Apollo, 138.
Pythōnĕs (ventriloquists), 126.
Q.
Quintus, the friend to whom the Dialogue on the _Delays in Divine Punishment_ is inscribed, also that on _Love between Brothers_, 175.
R.
Red Sea (Mare Erythraeum). Before Ptolemy, the term was used loosely to include the Persian Gulf, &c.: 117, 138, 305.
Rhea, 154.
Rhegium, a Greek town in South Italy, 140.
Rhetiste (cp. the _Gullies_), 19.
Rhodes, 95.
Rhodōpis (see Herodotus ii. 134-5), 94.
S.
Samĭdas, 49.
Samos, an island in the Aegean, 192, 224.
Sappho, the great woman lyric poet, a Lesbian, of the seventh century, 87, 104.
Sardis, the capital of Lydia, 192.
Satilaeans, 194.
Scythīnus, of Teos, an iambic poet of unknown date, 96.
Seleucus, king of Syria, assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus in 280: 189.
Selīnus, a Greek colony on the S.W. coast of Sicily, 92.
Selymbria, a town of Thrace, on the Propontis, 187.
Semĕlē, the mother of Dionysus (Bacchus), 209.
Serapion, or Sarapion, an Athenian poet, to whom the First Pythian Dialogue is inscribed, and a speaker in the Second.
Serāpis, an Egyptian deity, 107.
Shining-One, the, a name for the planet Cronus (Saturn), 300.
Sibylla, the Sibyl, the name of an early prophetess of Delphi; in later times an official title, also applied to other prophetic women, Siceliot, of the Greek colonies in Sicily, 99.
Sicyon, on the south shore of the Corinthian gulf, 95, 184.
Simmias, a Theban, a companion of Socrates, and (with Cebes) present at his death (see the _Crito_ and _Phaedo_ of Plato), 8, 11, 12, 13, Simonĭdēs of Ceos, a lyric poet (556-467), 97, 190.
Sisyphus, a knavish king of Corinth; some accounts make him father of Odysseus: 185.
104, 180, 288.
Soli, a city of Cilicia, 149, 205.
Solon, 638-558, the Athenian law-giver; one of the ‘Seven Wise Men’, 61, 179.
Solymi, a people of Lycia, 138.
_Sophistés_, a Dialogue of Plato’s later period, 71.
Sophists, the, 196.
266, 290 _n._ Sōphrōn (latter part of fifth century), a mime-writer of Syracuse, 63.
Sparti, the, ‘sown men’, the armed men who sprang up out of the ground at Thebes, when Cadmus sowed the dragon’s teeth, 82.
Spinthărus, 40.
Sporădes, the, a group of islands, off Britain, 135.
Statuaries, street of the, 17.
Stesichŏrus (Tisias), 632-560, lyric poet of Himera in Sicily, 78, 188, 282.
Stilbon (the planet Mercury), 154, 268.
Strabo, cognomen of the father of Pompey the Great, 185.
Stratonīcē, 95.
Suitors, the, i.e. of Penelope, 140.
Sybaris, a Greek town of Lucania in South Italy, 193, 196.
Syēnē (Assouan), taken by Eratosthenes to be directly under the sun at the summer solstice, 119, 296.
Sylla, a speaker in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_.
Symbŏlum, the, 16.
Syrian goddess (Cybele?), 233.
T.
Taenărus, a cape and town in the south of Laconia, 199.
Tantălus, 234, 293.
Taprobăne (Ceylon), 265.
Tarentum, a town in S. Italy, 40.
Tarsus, in Cilicia, 117, 160.
Tartărus, the penal region of the lower world, 40, 299.
Tegyra, a village of Boeotia, near Orchomenus, 121, 122, 124.
Teiresias, a blind prophet, of Thebes, 163, 226.
Teletias, 185.
Tempē, the gorge between Olympus and Ossa in Thessaly, through which the river Penēus flows, 132, 138.
Tenĕdos, an island off the coast of the Troad, 92.
Terentius Priscus, the friend to whom the Third Pythian Dialogue is inscribed, 117.
Terpander, of Lesbos, the father of Greek music (fl. 700), 194.
Terpsion, of Megara, a disciple of Socrates (see the _Theaetetus_ of Plato), 18.
Tettix, 199, 200.
Thalēs, of Miletus (seventh and sixth centuries), an early philosopher, one of the Seven Wise Men, 12, 61, 98.
Thamus, 134, 135.
Thasos, an island in the Aegean off Thrace, 166.
Theānōr, a young Pythagorean, who came to Thebes from Crotona, as a Thebes, the Egyptian, 296.
Thĕmis, the goddess of Justice, for some time in charge of the oracle at Delphi, 138, 211.
Themistocles, Athenian statesman (514-449), 183.
Theodōrus, of Soli, in Cilicia, a mathematician, 149, 150.
Theognis, of Megara, elegiac and gnomic poet (570-490), 84.
Theon, of Hyampolis, a family friend of Plutarch, a speaker in the First and Second Pythian Dialogues, and in the _Face in the Moon_.
suaviter_, where the Epicureans are attacked.
Theophrastus, born at Erĕsus, a philosopher of Athens, Aristotle’s successor, 136.
Theopompus, a Theban patriot, 43, 48.
Theopompus, of Chios, historian (d. 305), 100.
Theōrius, a designation of Apollo, 77.
Theoxenia, the, 194.
Thera, Therasia, islands off Crete, 91.
Thermopylae, the coast pass between Thessaly and Locris, famous for the defence of Leonidas in 480: 132.
Thespiae, a town of Boeotia, 29.
Thrasybūlus, of Athens, 7.
Thrasybūlus, tyrant of Syracuse after Hiero (467), 99.
Thrasymēdēs, 169.
196.
Thunderbolt (Ceraunus), Ptolemy, king of Macedon (d. 280), 189.
Thymĕlē, the altar of Dionysus in the theatre, 103.
14), 135.
Timarchus, of Athens, 99.
Timochăris, 98.
Timoleon, ruler of Syracuse (d. 357), 184: see his _Life_.
Timon, Plutarch’s brother, a speaker in the Dialogues on the _Delays in Timotheüs, an Athenian, 7.
Timotheüs, of Miletus, musician and poet (446-357), 232.
Tiribazus, satrap of western Armenia (d. 385), 229.
Titans, giant sons of Uranus, 138, 272, 301.
Tityus, a giant of Euboea, 307.
Trench, battle at, 176.
Troglodytes, cave-dwellers, about the Red Sea, &c., 117, 293, 296.
Trophoniădes, 306.
Trophonius, tutelary hero of Lebadeia and its oracle, 35, 40, 315.
Trosobius, 138.
Troy, 91, 102, 148.
Tyndarĭdae, Castor and Polydeucēs (Pollux), 147.
U.
Udōra, 306.
Urănus (‘Heaven’), the father of Cronus, 138.
V.
Venus (the planet), 154, 268.
W.
Wise Men of Greece, the (see the _Dinner-Party of the Seven Sages_ by Plutarch, translated by Professor Tucker in this series), 6, 110.
X.
Xenocrătes, of Chalcēdon, 396-314, a philosopher, associate of Plato, Xenophănēs, philosopher of Colophon, fourth century, 235.
Xenophon, Athenian general and historian (d. about 359), 103.
Xerxes, 235.
Z.
Zagreus, a name of the mystic Dionysus, 67.
Zēnĕs (plural of Zeus), 146.
299, 301.
Zeus Agoraios, 35.
Zodiac, the, 293.
Zones, the, 154.
Zoroaster, Persian sage, of uncertain date, 126.
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