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
Acropolis (Pausanias i. 28-9): 88.
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
_Delays in Divine Punishment_ and on _The Soul_. Cp. _Sympos._ 2, 9;
5, 7; 7, 2.
Pausanias, (1) Spartan statesman and general (d. 470), 99 _n._, 189,
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.
Peace (a woman’s name), 99.
Peisistrătus, tyrant of Athens, (d. 527), 182, 189.
Pelopĭdas, Theban general and friend of Epaminondas; fell at
Cynoscephalae 364 (see his _Life_), 8, 43, 45, 47, 49.
Peloponnesus, 121, 283, 293.
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.
Pericles, Athenian statesman (d. 429), 185, 196.
Persephŏnē, 37, 303, 306.
Persia, 96, 121, 208, 229.
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.
Pheidolaüs, of Haliartus, 11, 12, 13, 19, 32, 35.
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.
Philīnus, a speaker in the Second Pythian Dialogue. Cp. _Sympos._ 1, 6;
4, 1; 5, 10; 8, 7.
Philip of Macedon (d. 336), 233.
Philip, son of Cassander, king of Macedon (d. 296), 198.
Philip V, 237-179, king of Macedon, 91, 92.
Philippus, historian (of Prusa?), a speaker in the Third Pythian
Dialogue. Cp. _Sympos._ 7, 8.
Philippus, of Thebes, 43, 44, 48, 50.
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.
Phocis, Phocians, 88, 95, 96, 100, 185, 194.
Phoebĭdas, a Spartan general, who treacherously seized the Cadmeia in
382: 8.
Phoebus, ‘The Bright’, an appellation of Apollo, 67, 76, 107, 138.
_Phoenissae_, a play of Euripides, 107 n.
Phosphor, Phosphorus (the planet Venus), 154, 268, 273.
Phrygia, 126, 306.
Phrynē, 95.
Phyleus, 204.
Phyllĭdas, 10, 11, 28, 29, 32, 43, 48, 50.
Pillars of Hercules (on the Straits of Gibraltar), 305.
Pindar, the Theban lyric poet (518-438), 7, 72 _n._, 77, 87, 98, 102
_n._, 104, 105, 108 _n._, 123, 127, 131 _n._, 179, 194, 202, 226,
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 Athens, 430-347, founder of the Academy, 13, 14, 63, 72, 104,
126, 129, 134, 137, 156, 181, 318, 319;
_Cratylus_, 71, 130, 235;
_Laws_, 186;
_Minos_, 179;
_Phaedo_, 165;
_Republic_, 167, 187;
_Sophistes_, 151;
_Symposium_, 130;
_Timaeus_, 69, 128, 139, 141, 149, 154, 155, 180, 226, 272, 279, 293,
295, 305.
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,
21, 27, 66, 123, 228 _n._, 231.
Pythia, the, 72, 86, 100, 101, 103, 106, 110, 121, 164, 165, 169, 170,
199.
Pythian, 59, 60, 64, 117, 122, 123, 185.
Python, the serpent slain by Apollo, 138.
Pythōnĕs (ventriloquists), 126.