General Index

K. Scarlett Kingsley

doi:10.1017/9781009338530.013

General Index

Acusilaus, 14

advantage. See love of profit

Aeschylus, 25, 29, 39, 44, 69, 127, 131, 196

agon sophias, 10, 45

Alcidamas (sophist), 18

Alcmaeon, 171

allusion, 44, 177, 190–203

Amasis, 56, 209

Anaxagoras, 3, 10, 16, 21, 25, 28, 33, 125–126, 174

Anaximander, 21, 25, 124, 125

Anonymous Iamblichi, 103, 162

Antiphon, 33, 36, 59, 62, 102, 103, 139

Archelaus of Athens, 41

Aristaeus of Proconnesus, 14

Aristophanes, 29, 30, 44–46, 59, 90, 182, 191, 196

Aristotle, 3–4, 29, 34, 55, 150, 182, 203

Artabanus, 78, 79, 80, 83, 85, 86–89, 91, 97, 112, 137, 143

Atack, Carol, 160

Athenians / Athens, 1, 4, 32, 33, 39, 43, 44, 60–61, 62, 70, 76, 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 93, 103, 106, 111, 112, 127, 148, 151, 153, 158, 161, 179, 180, 181, 182, 196

autopsy, 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 17, 123, 130, 131, 177, 179, 205

Babylonians / Babylon, 38, 54, 55, 59, 75, 98, 134

Baehr, Johann Christian Felix, 204

battlefield. See Greco-Persian Wars

Bett, Richard, 211, 212, 213, 215

Blundell, Mary Whitlock, 106

bravery, 37, 66, 129, 135, 136, 144, 145, 147, 149, 150, 152, 153, 157, 158, 159, 161, 165

Cadmus of Miletus, 14

Callisthenes (historian), 34

Cambyses, 48–71, 75, 76, 79, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 96, 98, 99, 108, 113–116, 136, 137, 191, 199, 200, 208, 209, 213

cannibalism, 40, 52, 53, 198

Charon of Lampsacus, 25, 40, 193

Clearchus (philosopher), 196

Cleombrotus of Sparta, 34

competitive spirit. See intellectual culture

Constitutional Debate, 6, 68–75, 93, 109

courage. See bravery

Cratinus (comic playwright), 29, 196

Critias (sophist), 45, 73, 164, 165

Croesus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 20, 27, 29, 31, 32, 88, 97, 133, 135, 137, 143, 182, 183, 187, 205, 219

Ctesias, 31, 57, 199

custom. See nomos

Cyrus, 2, 20, 71, 72, 78, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 98, 99, 100, 108, 109, 113–115, 116, 133–136, 143, 183, 184, 186, 219

Darius, 25, 28, 36, 50, 51, 52, 61, 67, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 79, 82, 85, 86, 92–101, 104, 105, 107, 108–113, 115, 116, 163, 164, 179, 186, 188, 191, 196, 208, 209, 218

sobriquet of ‘retailer’, 98

Demaratus, 6, 53, 134, 144–161, 204

democracy, 2, 62, 65, 68–75, 76, 93, 106, 109, 111, 145, 149. See also isonomia (equality before the law)

Democritus, 4, 24, 33, 42, 61, 69, 72, 104, 122, 138, 149, 154, 155, 157, 161, 164, 165, 172, 173, 174

Dewald, Carolyn, 167, 168, 169, 189

Dictys (historian), 13

Diels, Hermann, 16, 30–31, 193

Dio Chrysostom, 31

Diodorus Siculus, 4, 19, 32, 206

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 14, 195

Dionysius of Miletus, 25, 193

Dissoi Logoi, 24, 27, 37, 38, 53, 63, 113, 190–203

authorship of, 192

dating of, 191

relation to Histories, 192, 194, 195, 196, 203

relativism in, 53, 63, 199, 201, 202, 214–216

dreams, 87–89, 136–137, 179

early Greek philosophy. See Presocratics, terminology of

egoism, 92–116

Egyptians / Egypt, 10, 29, 38, 39, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 60, 63, 76, 82, 83, 85, 122–140, 169, 175, 178, 195, 198, 200, 209, 217, 219

Empedocles, 17, 21, 24, 25, 29, 41, 42, 120, 173–174, 205

empire, 75–89, 90, 96, 99, 106, 135, 136, 143, 161, 184

empiricism, 7–8, 9, 10, 91, 177, 204–205

environmental determinism, 6, 129, 136, 161

in Histories, 117, 127–128, 133–136, 139

Epicharmus, 121, 164, 165, 171

epistemology, 7, 37, 120, 167–189, 205, 217–220

in Homer, 178

equality. See isonomia (equality before the law)

ethnography, 11, 21, 25, 38, 40, 54, 75, 89, 90, 95, 96, 97, 99, 108, 116, 122, 175, 179, 192–203, 205

Euripides, 16, 44, 45, 46, 54, 62, 63, 89, 101, 102, 103, 107, 125, 128, 182, 191, 198, 212

fallibilism, 170, 171, 176, 187. See also epistemology

falsehood. See truth, and falsehood

genre, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 22, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, 205–206

geography, 6, 21, 25, 40, 127, 129, 132, 134, 205

Gorgias, 24, 27, 33, 104, 147, 155, 157, 180, 192, 193, 211

Greco-Persian Wars, 8, 9, 25, 36, 37, 76, 80, 86, 89, 116, 129, 141, 144, 145, 161, 179, 204

Plataea, Battle of, 56, 137, 144, 151, 152, 158, 159, 160, 161, 187

Salamis, Battle of, 25, 78, 111, 148, 152, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 164

Thermopylae, Battle of, 150, 151, 152, 158, 159, 160, 161

versification of, 25

happiness. See well-being

hearsay, 175, 177, 178, 218, 220

Hecataeus, 10, 14, 16, 21, 22, 31, 40, 124, 125, 126, 177, 193

Hellanicus, 14, 19, 23, 25, 40, 193, 194

Heracles, 59, 66–67, 130, 131–132, 139, 145, 179, 217, 219

Heraclitus, 15, 16, 21, 22, 25, 27, 41, 118–119, 121, 123, 126, 132, 137, 169, 171, 172, 177, 185, 207

Herodotus. See Histories

Hippias of Elis, 22, 23, 26, 40, 53, 63–64, 139, 192, 193

Hippocratic corpus, 6, 7, 17, 122, 137, 154, 182, 215

Airs, Waters, Places, 37, 128–129, 130, 132, 134–135, 136, 141, 154, 160, 161, 162

historie, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 35, 119, 170, 175, 176, 205

Histories

causation in, 24, 37, 86, 89, 90, 97, 117, 141–142, 144, 150, 151, 158, 160, 180

knowledge claims of narrator in, 179–186, 217–220

proem of, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 24–25, 26, 137, 188, 217

reception of, 13–15, 25, 31, 37, 190–203

sophistic language in, 17, 18, 45, 94, 96, 124, 141, 180

status as experimental prose, 18, 189, 203, 204

truth claims of narrator in, 37, 167–181, 185, 186, 189

universal nature of, 19

use of spatial metaphors in, 184, 195

historiography

genre of, 11–31, 33–35, 204

putative origins of, 13–15

use of prose, 12–15, 26, 40

Homer, 19, 22, 25, 26, 118, 121, 129, 160, 172, 176, 178, 181, 202

human nature. See physis, human nature

incest, 46, 47, 58–65, 69, 198, 199

intellectual culture, 4, 8, 9, 18, 19, 21, 26–27, 29, 32, 35–37, 44, 47, 92, 108, 167, 203–206

intertextuality, 36, 46, 65–67, 194, 200–202, 208

Ion of Chios, 20, 21, 23

Isidore of Seville, 13

Isocrates, 6, 34

isonomia (equality before the law), 69, 70, 72

Jacoby, Felix, 11, 19

justice, 4, 36, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45, 49, 53, 55–79, 83, 85, 88, 91, 97, 101, 102, 103, 107, 108, 109, 113, 114, 115, 132, 140, 156, 162, 163, 186, 192, 202, 208, 211, 212

knowledge. See epistemology

Konstan, David, 145

kosmos, 151–152, 158–160

Kranz, Walther, 192

likelihood, 167, 169, 171, 175, 176, 177. See also epistemology

Linguistic Turn, 9

love of profit, 36, 94, 95, 97, 98, 99, 101–115

Lucian, 31, 34

Lycophron (sophist), 43

lying. See truth, and falsehood

marriage auction. See Babylonians / Babylon

Maso, Stefano, 193, 201

Mazzarino, Santo, 194

medicine. See Hippocratic corpus

Melissus, 3, 25, 30, 181, 182

monarchy, 68–75, 88, 92, 98, 109, 143, 145, 147, 149, 158, 191

Müller, Dietram, 7

Munson, Rosaria Vignolo, 54

Myres, John L., 190

nature, natural environment. See physis

Nestle, Wilhelm, 193

New Learning, 44, 63, 91

Nile, 9–10, 31, 91, 123–127, 132, 140, 143, 187, 217, 218

nomos, 36, 38–91

dispassionate stance of narrator toward, 54, 61

etymology of, 38–39

in Histories 3.38, 50, 52, 56, 75, 207, 208

and imperialism, 79–89

origination of, 60

peculiar to humans, 49, 87

Persian imposition of, 75, 76, 77, 85, 92

relation to justice, 55–75, 79, 83

role in Greco-Persian Wars, 141

oligarchy. See Constitutional Debate, monarchy

one-man rule. See monarchy, tyranny

Otanes, 68–73, 74, 92–95, 99, 100, 101, 108, 109, 111, 115, 116

Parmenides, 3, 25, 30, 42, 119–120, 124, 171–175, 181–186

Pelling, Christopher, 12, 88, 158

Persians / Persia, 19, 38, 56, 57, 58, 64, 68, 69, 72, 74–92, 93, 95, 96, 98, 100, 109, 110, 112, 113–117, 133, 134, 135, 136, 142, 143, 149, 151, 158, 159, 160, 161, 195, 198, 199, 203, 205

ban on lying, 95, 105, 113, 116

education system of, 114

jurisconsults of, 56, 58, 59, 61, 65, 69, 71

Phaleas of Chalcedon, 55

Pherecydes of Syros, 14, 25, 26

Philolaus of Croton, 25

philosophia, 11, 18, 26, 27

philosophy

relation to history, 26–31, 31–35, 190–203, 203–206

physis, 10, 36, 37, 117

human nature, 35, 37, 67, 69, 85, 86, 121, 122, 130, 132, 133, 139, 140, 156, 163, 164

in Histories, 121–139

in Homer, 118

in Presocratics. See Presocratics, interest in physis

normative force of, 117

relation to divine, 137–138

relation to nomos, 41, 51, 84, 87, 90, 102, 122, 128, 141, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 158, 164, 216

superiority according to, 141, 152, 161–165

surpassing of, 142–161

Pindar, 28, 29, 50, 52, 65, 66, 67, 201, 207, 208, 210, 214

Plato, 17, 18, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 33, 40, 42, 43, 48, 52, 55, 69, 87, 106, 114, 122, 131, 138, 139, 155, 156, 157, 161, 165, 192, 203, 206, 213

Polybius, 33, 134, 168, 206

Presocratics, 6, 19, 23, 26, 90, 97, 119, 206

interest in causes, 23, 25, 117

interest in epistemology, 169–186, 189

interest in physis, 117, 118–121, 124, 125–126, 138, 139, 158–159, 164

terminology of, 30

universalizing program of, 20, 21, 27, 205

Prodicus, 27, 33

prose writing, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23, 25, 26, 40, 108

Protagoras, 2, 6, 17, 24, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 68, 73, 138, 153, 156, 157, 164, 165, 173, 182, 190, 192, 193, 203, 211, 212, 213, 216

Pythagoras, 15–16, 21, 27, 29, 126, 185, 206

relativism, 36, 37, 38–91, 190

cultural, 43, 44, 48, 51–52, 53, 55, 63, 65, 89, 90–91, 191, 195, 197, 198, 203, 207, 214

different kinds of, 42, 89, 90

in Dissoi Logoi, 195–203, 214–215, 216

“strong” versus “weak”, 211–216

threat to traditional morality, 43, 44, 46, 47, 64

vs. tolerance, 207–210

reliability of senses. See autopsy; empiricism; epistemology

Rood, Tim, 48

rule of the stronger. See physis, superiority according to

Scythians / Scythia, 69, 79, 86, 129, 143, 154, 162, 163, 165, 176, 187, 195, 196, 198, 201, 218

seeming, 167, 170, 171, 173, 179. See also epistemology

self-interest. See egoism

Skinner, Joseph, 81

social contract, 21, 92, 103

Socrates, 17, 18, 23, 29, 30, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 63, 64, 73, 106, 155, 156, 157, 162, 163, 165, 173, 192, 207. See also Aristophanes; Plato; Xenophon

Solon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 20, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 54, 60, 61, 72, 112, 143, 171, 182, 183, 184, 185, 205

sophia, 1, 28, 109, 137, 144, 159

sophistes, 1, 4, 10, 17, 28, 29

sophists, 6, 8, 9, 10, 22, 29, 34, 37, 45, 46, 48, 51, 53, 56, 74, 75, 82, 90, 94, 96, 98, 106, 107, 110, 121, 124, 137, 162, 191, 192, 193, 201, 204, 206, 211, 216

Sophocles, 36, 97, 101, 104, 106, 107, 116, 125

Philoctetes, 36, 104–108, 116

Spartans / Sparta, 23, 34, 53, 56, 61, 70, 85, 111, 114, 144–152, 157, 158, 159, 186, 188, 195, 202, 215, 219

subjectivism, 42, 44, 49, 52, 64, 65, 90, 190, 191, 198, 203, 213

tattooing. See Thracians / Thrace

Thales, 10, 125, 126

Themistocles, 78, 111, 112, 116, 149, 152–158, 163, 164, 166

Theodectes, 34

Theognis, 6, 28, 39, 101

Theopompus, 34

theoria, 1, 2, 4

Thomas, Rosalind, 6, 18, 146

Thracians / Thrace, 66, 144, 145, 165, 176, 187, 195, 196, 197, 198

Thucydides, 5, 14, 20, 27, 56, 61, 84, 85, 101, 112, 122, 140, 141, 146, 153, 161, 164, 175, 182, 187, 190, 206

reception of, 33

Timaeus (historian), 33, 34

transtextuality, 5

truth, 3, 42, 172, 174, 176, 177. See also epistemology

in connection with ‘what-is’, 181, 182

and falsehood, 97, 101, 108

truth-telling. See Persians / Persia, ban on lying

tyranny, 47, 49, 62, 63, 68, 69, 70, 73, 74, 77, 79, 80, 88, 90, 101, 139, 143, 145, 149, 151, 186, 188

universalism. See Histories, universal nature of

valor. See bravery

Vlastos, Gregory, 70

well-being, 2, 3, 4, 5, 16, 20, 32, 183, 205, 219

wisdom. See sophia

wisdom tradition. See philosophy; philosophia; sophists

wise advisor motif, 78, 80, 86, 87, 143, 183

Xanthus of Lydia, 14, 193, 199

Xenophanes, 16, 21, 25, 124, 126, 170–177, 185, 189

Xenophon, 20, 30, 63, 64, 73, 74, 113, 114, 115, 165, 206

Cyropaedia, 113–115

Xerxes, 22, 69, 76–91, 112, 113, 137, 144–152, 157, 158, 160, 162, 163, 164, 166, 186, 188, 191, 204, 209

as histor, 82

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