A

Acropolis guards at Athens, 100–1

Aemilius Macer, 159

Aeschylus

• Persae, 87, 94–5

Ambush in epic warfare, 75, 76–9, 81–3

Ancestral trades, 210, 214, 215–17

Andocides, 87

Antonius ‘Hybrida’, C., trial of, 176, 178, 179, 187

Apollonius Rhodius

• Argonautica, 25

Apprenticeship, 214–15

Apuleius

• Metamorphoses, 54–74

Arbela, oracle at, 50–1

Archer corps of Athens, 86–102

Argos, 44–5

Aristides, 98

Aristonous of Corinth

• paean to Apollo, 39

Aristophanes

• Acharnenses, 94

Aristotle, 211

• Ethica Nicomachea, 208

• [Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία], 98

Assyrian oracles, 50–1

Athenaeus, 80

Augustus, 191, 192, 193–7, 200, 202–3

B

Battle of Actium, 5, 225–6

Battle of Marathon, 88

Battle of Plataea, 88

Battle of Sphacteria, 99–100

Bibulus, Marcus, 177

Body-subject, 55, 71

C

Callimachus

• Branchos, 18–19

• Hymn 3, 164–5, 172

Catilinarian conspiracy, 175, 179–80

Cato the Younger, 176–7, 179

Catullus, 168

Cavalry of Athens, 86, 87, 97, 98, 99

Cicero

• De domo sua, 187

• De natura deorum, 8

• De republica, 184–5

• Epistulae ad Atticum, 186

• Pro Flacco, 175–88

Cleopatra, 226

Clodius, 176, 178, 186, 187

Corporeality, 54–74

Courage, 93–4, 95

Crafts (technai), 205, 207–17

Crassus, 179

Crete, 16–18, 22, 29, 88, 96

Crisa, 15–16, 19–20, 21–33

Ctesias, 88

Cypria, 76–8, 81

Cyrus the Younger, 37–8

D

Dalai Lamas, 41, 45–7

Decree of Themistocles, 88–90

Delphic oracle, 16, 19, 26, 29, 32, 34–53

Democracy, 181–2, 185, 187–8

Demosthenes, 88

Didactic poetry, 161–4

Didyma, 15, 16–17, 19

Dio Cassius, 187

Dodona, 34–5, 37, 38, 39, 46, 205–7, 211–17

E

Ekphrasis, 2–14

Elegy and epic, 155–7, 171–4, 219–41

Empedocles, 57

Epic Cycle, 76–9, 85

Epigraphy, 86–7, 88–90, 92–3, 100–1

Epoche¯, 58, 73

Euripides

• Hercules furens, 94

F

Flaccus, L. Valerius, 175, 177

G

Gellius, Aulus

• Noctes Atticae, 168

Gender inversion, 218–20, 222–4, 226, 229, 231–3, 236

Golden Age, 189–203

Greek democracy, 181–2, 185, 187–8

H

Hannibal, 7, 9

Herodoros, 25

Herodotus, 44–5, 88, 89, 210

Hesiod, 173–4

Hippocratic corpus

• Peri technes, 209–10, 211

Homer

• Iliad, 23, 75–6, 77–9, 81–5, 159, 164–5

• Odyssey, 24–5, 212

Homeric Hymns

• Hymn to Apollo, 15–33, 18

• Hymn to Demeter, 22–3

• Hymn to Dionysus, 22–3

Horace

• Carmen saeculare, 200–2

• Odes, 191, 202–3

I

Intermediality, 1–14

J

Jameson, Michael H., 88–9, 91, 100

Julius Caesar, 176–7, 179, 180, 187, 195

L

Laelius, Decimus (prosecutor of Flaccus), 175, 178, 179–81, 186, 187

Lamellae, oracular, 205–7, 211–17

Libertas, 184–5

Licinius Crassus, M., 179

Livy, 231

Ludi saeculares, 200

Lycophron

• Alexandra, 80

M

Macer, Aemilius, 159

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 55–6, 58–9, 61, 66, 67, 70

Metics, 92, 96

Miletus, 15–19, 18, 32

Molpoi, 16, 18, 31

N

Naevius

• Bellum Punicum, 165

Navy, Athenian, 90–1, 96–7, 98, 102

Nechung oracle, 35–6, 41, 43, 45–7

Nicander

• Theriaca, 156, 158–64, 172–4

Nussbaum, Martha, 208, 209–11, 213

O

Oracles, 16–17, 19, 26, 32, 34–53, 205–7, 211–14, 217

Ovid

• Amores, 171

• Heroides, 239–41

• Metamorphoses, 5–7, 155–74, 196, 198–9

• Tristia, 159

P

Peloponnesian War, 48–52, 86, 87, 92, 95–6, 98, 99–100

Pericles, 52, 87

Persian Wars, 44–5, 88–91, 94–5

Persius, 57

Petronius

• Satyricon, 66

Phenomenology, 55–6, 57–9, 60–2, 65–7

Phrynichus, 80

Pindar

• Pythian Odes, 35, 172

Plague of Athens, 51–2

Plassart, André, 86–7, 92, 100

Plato, 208–9, 211

• Gorgias, 208

• Phaedrus, 34

• Politicus, 208

• Protagoras, 208, 209

Plautus

• Bacchides, 79

Pleistoanax, 39

Pliny the Younger

• Epistulae, 168

Plutarch

• Moralia, 28–9, 42

• Solon, 210

Pompey, 178–9, 180, 187

Proclus

• Chrestomatheia, 76–8, 81

Propertius, 218–22, 225–41

Public assemblies, 181–5

Public employment, Athenian, 96–9, 102

R

Recusatio, 155, 157, 169, 174

Rites of Apollo, 15, 16–19, 18, 27–8, 29–31

Roman republicanism, 181–5

S

Sack of Troy, 85

Saguntum, 7, 12–13

Scythians, 95–6, 100–1

Sexuality, 66–9

Shields, epic descriptions of, 3–5, 7–13

Silius Italicus

• Punica, 7–10, 12–13

Socrates, 37–8, 208–9

Solon, 210

Sophistry, 208–9

Sophocles

• Ajax, 94

• Troilus, 80

Sparta, 39, 48–52

Statius

• Thebais, 10–12, 170

Strattis

• Troilus, 80

Suetonius

• Divus Iulius, 187

T

Technai, 205, 207–17

Themistocles, decree of, 88–90

Thucydides, 39, 48–52, 87, 96, 100

Tibetan oracles, 35–6, 40–8, 52–3

Tibullus, 197–200

Tityos myth, 170–3

Troezen, 88–9

Tumidus, 167–9

V

Valerius Flaccus, L., 175, 177

Vatican Mythographers, 79

Virgil

• Aeneid, 4–5, 9, 157, 194–7, 220, 221–31, 233–9

• Eclogues, 189–204

• Georgics, 192–3

X

Xenophon, 96

• Anabasis, 37–8

• Oeconomicus, 210