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- Abdera, birthplace of Protagoras, 95
- Achilles, 187
- Acumenus, father of Eryximachus,
physician, 113
- Adeimantus, (1) son of Cepis; (2)
Athenian admiral, son of Leucolophidas,
115
- Aeneas, 47
- Aeschylus, Athenian dramatist (c. 525–456 b.c.), Septem, 449 n.
- Aexone, Attic deme or district, 69 n.
- Agathocles, Athenian music-teacher,
119 n.
- Agathon, Athenian dramatist (c.
447–400 b.c.), 115
- Alcibiades (c. 450–404 b.c.), 89–91,
115 ff.; the younger, cousin of
Cleinias, 391
- Aleuadae, princes of Larisa in
Thessaly, 265
- Alexidemus of Thessaly, father of
Meno, 287
- Andron, son of Androtion, 113
- Anthemion, a tanner, father of
Anytus, 335
- Antimoerus of Mende (in the
Chalcidic peninsula Pallene),
113
- Antisthenes (c. 444–365 b.c.), disciple of Socrates and founder of the Cynic philosophy, 431 n.
- Anytus, son of Anthemion, tanner and democrat, accuser of Socrates, 262, 335
- Apollo, 197, 427 n., 477 n., 489
- Apollodorus, father of Hippocrates
and Phason, 97, 117
- Ariphron, brother of Pericles, 127
- Aristeides, “the Just,” Athenian statesman (c. 530–468 b.c.), 3, 9, 349
- Aristippus, prince of Larisa in
Thessaly, friend of Meno, 265
- Athena, 133, 489
- Axiochus, son of Alcibiades and father of Cleinias, 379, 391
- Bias of Priene (near Miletus),
Ionian sage, 197
- Briareus, a hundred-armed giant,
478 n.
- Callaeschrus, father of Critias, 115
- Callias, wealthy patron of sophists,
89–91, 111 ff.
- Carian slave, 35 n., 427 n.
- Cepis, father of Adeimantus, 115
- Chaeredemus, father of Patrocles
the half-brother of Socrates,
471
- Charmides, son of Glaucon and maternal uncle of Plato, 113
- Chilon of Sparta, a sage, 197
- Chios, Greek island off the coast of Asia Minor, 381, 437
- Cleinias, (1) father of Alcibiades, 95; (2) younger brother of Alcibiades, 127; (3) son of Axiochus, 385
- Cleobulus of Lindus in Rhodes, a sage of the time of Solon, 197
- Cleophantus, son of Themistocles, 347
- Colchis, on the east of the Black Sea, native land of Medea, 427
- Connus, son of Metrobius, a harper, 383, 463
- Corinthus, mythical founder of
Corinth, 453 n.
- Criso of Himera in Sicily, a runner,
175
- Critias (c. 455–404 b.c.), son of Callaeschrus and pupil of Socrates;
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afterwards oligarch, 90, 115, 177
- Crito, wealthy Athenian and devoted disciple of Socrates, 376 ff.
- Critobulus, son of Crito, 379, 502
- Crommyonian sow, 67 n.
- Ctesippus, of Paeania in Attica, 385, 389 ff.
- Daedalus, legendary inventor of
sculpture, 361
- Damon, Athenian musician and
sophist, friend of Pericles, 13,
71, 79
- Delium, battle at (424 b.c.), 15 n., 41 n.
- Dionysodorus, sophist of Chios
and Thurii, brother of Euthydemus,
379 ff.
- Dioscuri, or Heavenly Twins
(Castor and Pollux, sons of Zeus),
453
- Dorian mode in music, 39 n., 57
- Dorians, 489 n.
- Empedocles, of Acragas in Sicily, philosopher (c. 475–415 b.c.), 285 n.
- Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, 129 ff., 257
- Eryximachus, son of Acumenus, physician, 113
- Eudorus, a wrestling-master, 349
- Eurybatus, a rogue, 149 n.
- Euthydemus, sophist of Chios and Thurii, brother of Dionysodorus, 379 ff.
- Geryon, a three-headed and six-armed
giant, 479 n.
- Glaucon, the elder, father of Plato’s mother, 113
- Gorgias, of Leontini in Sicily, sophist (c. 490–395 b.c.), 265, 285 n., 353, 357
- Hephaestus, god of fire, 133
- Hercules, 469, 491
- Hermes, 135
- Herodicus, of Selymbria in Thrace (north of the Propontis), trainer and physician, 117
- Herodotus (c. 484–408 b.c.—ix. 61–2), 49
- Hesiod, 117, 189 n.
- Hippias, of Ells, sophist, 89, 90,
113 ff., 179 n.
- Hippocrates, of Cos, physician
(c. 460–380 b.c.), 99
- Hippocrates, son of Apollodorus,
young friend of Socrates, 89,
121 ff.
- Hipponicus, father of Callias, 99, 113, 115
- Homer, 117; (Il. viii. 107–8) 47; (x. 224) 215; (xxi. 305) 187; (xxiv. 348) 93; (Od. iv. 385) 437 n., (456) 439 n.; (x. 494) 369; (xi. 582) 114; (601) 113; (xvii. 347) 81
- Iccus of Tarentum, athlete and
trainer, 117 n.
- Iolaus, son of Iphicles and nephew
of Hercules, 471
- Ion, son of Apollo and Creusa,
489 n.
- Ionian mode in music, 39 n.
- Ionians, 489
- Iphicles, half-brother of Hercules, 471
- Ismenias, democrat of Thebes, 335 n.
- Isocrates, Athenian rhetorician (436–338 b.c.), 376, 497 n.
- Laches, Athenian general (d. 418 b.c.), 3, 4 ff.
- Larisa, town on the Peneus in Thessaly, 265
- Lenaeum, Athenian dramatic festival, 149 n.
- Leucolophidas, father of Adeimantus, 115
- Lyceum, gymnasium dedicated to Apollo Lyceus, in an eastern suburb of Athens, 379, 385 n.
- Lydian mode in music, 39 n.
- Lysimachus, son of Aristeides, 3, 4 ff., 349
- Marsyas, satyr flayed by Apollo, 427 n.
- Medea, sorceress and wife of Jason,
427
- Melesias, 3
- Menelaus, king of Sparta, 439
- Meno, son of Alexidemus of Thessaly, 263
- Metrobius, father of Connus, 383
- Musaeus, early bard, 117
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